Framing (visual arts)

Cadrage (from French le cadre, the frame ), in German also Kadrage, framing in English, is a film- scientific term that describes the selection of framing. The field that is enclosed by the image format, ie squad, the frame of framing framing. The terms are often used interchangeably. From concept Cadrage the term is to be distinguished setting size.

The Cadrage determined in the planning of a setting, the placement and movement of goods and persons within the set of the film frame format, and the implementation of the immovable bildkompositorische three-dimensional environment for the two-dimensional image. By means of the film format corresponding optical viewfinder (English: View Finder) plan many directors before the visible later in the film image area. The Cadrage sets the optical image focus and do not necessarily reflect the natural look: through use of space, light setting, choice of lens and other influential names may distorted proportions or visual detail accents are achieved.

An unspoken agreement between filmmaker and Filmrezipient is that the room shown on film outside the visible range, " continues ". Normally, the audience assumes that he gets all the information shown in the image. The events outside of this section, so off camera, is not controllable and thus unsettling about him. This effect visually withheld information make some directors as a stylistic device to advantage, such as Alfred Hitchcock in many of his films.

The objective of the classical Hollywood cinema was not only to make the cut "invisible", but to make the limitation of the image space as inconspicuous as possible and of course. Therefore, action was frequent in the image center, the edge regions were often purely decorative. After the end of the classic Hollywood era, the spatial presentation was complex for the audience, the uniformity of heat in the head of the viewer's overall situation was an illusion construct promoted by diverse film techniques, such as actor looks to Off, series of individual perspectives on average, subjective attitudes moving with it camera, the illusion of space in tone and much more.