In this week’s workshop, we learnt about The Golden Ratio, which is something I have heard of before but never quite understood. Reading ‘Exploring the Golden Ratio in Film and Photography’ helped me understand that the golden ratio is the ‘perfect proportion’ and attracts our attention due to the mathematical relation to Leonardo of Pisa’s Fibonacci sequence. It is related due to ‘the ratio between the numbers continue to grow [close] to Phi’ (Kastwar 2022). It acts like a geometric stencil that help artists manipulate what audiences primarily look at when engrossed in a visual stimulus. As we learn symmetry for our first assignment, the golden ratio assists in creating balance and proportion in art and creates captivating visuals (Kastwar 2022). Learning this has helped me develop understanding to the importance of the golden ratio in film. Previously thinking its some complicated stencil, where in reality it is not difficult to wrap your head around.

REFERENCE

Kastwar, A. (2022). Exploring the Golden Ratio in Film and Photography. [online] Purpose Studio. Accessed 21 March 2024. https://www.purposestudios.in/post/exploring-the-golden-ratio-in-film-and-photography.