A Glimpse on Ethiopian Film Through a Cinematographer of Aster✱: Interview With Abebe Ketsela

In film production cinematography is a visual medium that connects the film experience to the viewers. Just like other crew members such as directors and actors, specific names of cinematographers become common in the African film industry. Abebe Ketsela, who has a career spanning many decades and p...

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VerfasserInnen: Ayalew, Paulos Aemero (VerfasserIn) ; Ashagrie, Aboneh (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: David Publishing Company 2023
In: Cultural and religious studies
Jahr: 2023, Band: 11, Heft: 2, Seiten: 74-83
weitere Schlagwörter:B Experimental Cinema
B Composition
B Aster
B Lighting
B cinematography
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Zusammenfassung:In film production cinematography is a visual medium that connects the film experience to the viewers. Just like other crew members such as directors and actors, specific names of cinematographers become common in the African film industry. Abebe Ketsela, who has a career spanning many decades and popular designations, is regarded as one of the best intellect cinematographers in Ethiopian cinema. This qualitative content analysis examines his works his cinematography skill emerged from his ability to utilize shot selection, framing, and composition. This qualitative content analysis of Aster film focuses on the Cinematography concept of camera mobility, and lighting techniques to tell the story naturally so. This is the revised transcription of an interview with Abebe Ketsela that took place on September 27th 2021 at the Department of Film Production Studio at Ale-School of Fine Arts and Design, Adds Ababa University, St. marry Avenue, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the place where African filmmakers teach film directing, Cinematography, and screenplay writing. The film production Department is the first Film School which is opened in 2015. This place in this site is a vigorous Black African center as film making education school at the level of second Degree and the excremental area of his creative works. The interview spanned three and a half hours and roofed an extensive range of topics, most of which pivoted around: A glimpse on Ethiopian film through a cinematographer of Aster: how his visual creation reveals in his cinematography.
ISSN:2328-2177
Enthält:Enthalten in: Cultural and religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.17265/2328-2177/2023.02.002