Prof. Gustavo Mercado’s second book in The Filmmaker’s Eye series, The Filmmaker’s Eye – The Language of the Lens: The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image, was just published by Focal Press/Routledge.

About the book: 

The Language of the Lens explores the expressive power of the camera lens and the storytelling contributions that this critical tool can make to a film project. This book offers a unique approach to learning how lenses can produce aesthetically and narratively compelling images in movies, through a close examination of the various ways lens techniques control the look of space, movement, focus, flares, distortion, and the “optical personality” of a story’s visual landscape. Like The Filmmaker’s Eye, The Language of the Lens combines precise technical instruction with narrative analysis and cinematic aesthetics considerations.

Reporting and Writing 2 students found themselves on the other side of the camera on May 9 on their way to visit media giant Bloomberg. Videographer for Bloomberg’s @TicToc Madison Mills interviewed several of Professor Sissel McCarthy’s students, asking them what they thought about that day’s New York Times opinion piece about breaking up Facebook. After a few vox pops on the sidewalk, students went on a tour of Bloomberg’s headquarters that included a visit to the TV studio control room and the 29th-floor cafeteria with a killer view of Central Park and the Upper East Side.