Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Discuss about shooting postitions

The shooting crew asked me to help them. I advised shooting positions, acting and camera actions.

I was not participated in the editing process so...no, I did not know how the movie will be like until they give me the file. Some parts seem a little boring (the scene the guy drives the motorbike on the way home repeats 3 times)+ the length of the movie is too long (>6 minutes).

I think some of the shooting positions can be improved in some scenes.

For ex: the scene when the "house breaker" sneak in from the front door.

Suggestion: the better way to shoot it is that we can locate the camera on the floor (in this case) or the upper corner of the room. The reason is that both positions will give the viewers a strongest feeling of watching the scene through a security video camera or the realistic feeling at what they are watching.

It was: in this video, the closed-distance camera positions may give the viewers a less realistic feeling of what they are watching or a feeling of being a second person in the room (which is definitely not what we want to deliver to the viewers).

The most, best, awesome shooting position is when the "house breaker" run out from the building and accidentally hit by the "bike theft". Simple but maximum the effectiveness.
The first camera position, which is the actor carries the camera and shoots while he is acting, in this case was perfectly applied. This is how I explain this shot: "he will run, like he has never been run faster, he escaped (bright light from the outside gives that feeling), he got hit, and he felt, for real (the camera is roll down on the road to give the sense of something felt).

In addition, in my opinion, they can take several close-up short shots rather than long and wide shots. If the actors, as viewed on video screen, are acting something that viewed can guess. For example in this case, the "house owner" walk out from the house, walk along the hall and go into the elevator. The camera position should be changed to reduce the waiting time (wait for the "house owner" end her walking) and increase the feeling time (viewed can see the feeling of the "house owner" when she picks up her cellphone at the front door - with close-up shoot - and the "house breaker" when he waits for her leaving).

It is a very sensitive issue to put the name of the one not belong to the group in an assignment so it is ok for me!

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