Project Background/Description, excerpted from David Kane’s Honors Thesis:

"There are several components that make up the whole of a motion picture image.  Most discussions limit the important aspects of an image to four:  lighting, color, framing, and camera movement.  While these elements are certainly important, to begin an examination of cinematic meaning based on these rudiments alone would be to deny the core building blocks that make them such prevalent contributors to the meaning of an image.  The major elements of an image such as framing and camera movement are actually a combination of several smaller elements that form the basic foundation of that particular shot.  In his book The Visual Story, Bruce Block breaks down the image into its most basic components:  space, line, shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm (2).  When functioning independently, each of these is relatively meaningless—draw a straight line on a page and it is just a line.  However, when combined with, and contrasted against other components, intellectual weight is added.  It is in such a way that I, functioning in the role of cinematographer on the short film The Bath, have attempted to selectively photograph reality in hopes of creating images that augment the development of the protagonist and garner sympathy for his unfortunate conditions…