- Kazi Zaman is a cinematographer and co-founder of Broken Lens Productions. He was always interested in art as a child and payed considerable attention to the way a piece was shaded. He enjoyed the way shadows told a story about an image which led him to watching films and paying close attention to the cinematography. From the early years in high school, Zaman began an interest in filmmaking, shooting his classmates with his camera and learning how to edit by himself. He was fascinated with the idea of using the camera as a tool to observe and the video editor to create a story around the captured footage. The high school headmaster came across some of Zaman's short films on the internet and recommended him to take film studies as a GCSE subject. He was fascinated by directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Hirokazu Koreeda, Kim Ki Duk, Park Chan Wook and many more. All these directors had one thing in common in Zaman's eyes and that was the beautiful cinematography that accompanied their works. He began to look up to cinematographers such as Kazuo Miyagawa who he was greatly impressed by his work on ''Sansho the Bailiff (1954)'' and Yûharu Atsuta with his beautifully shot ''Tokyo Story (1953)''. Kazi Zaman graduated from high school with top grades in film studies and hoped to make his lifelong career in filmmaking. He later co- founded a production company called Broken Lens Productions with his college colleagues. Kazi Zaman's cinematographic style stems from the influences of cinematographers during his early years as a filmmaker. He considers himself a ''dark lighter'' with his work usually consisting of strong back light and lighting ratios ranging from 5:1 to 8:1. Zaman's use of wide shots is also notable, this coming from his influence from Japanese cinematographers which he says is very important for the viewer to observe from afar the lives of the characters.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Hard, back light
- 5:1 - 8:1 lighting ratio
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