A brief show this week, describing the many different aspects of
filming two scenes. The learning this time around is all hands on. The
entire class is working together to shoot two scenes from a script.
We've each taken on at least one role, in some cases two. My primary
concern is creating the lighting with a secondary responsibility for
sound.
Once we determined our roles, we broke into two groups. The technical
people: cinematographer, sound and lighting worked together while the
producer and director spent their time setting the location, set design
and casting.
The cinematographer or director of photography took the lead by
creating a shot list or storyboard which came from conversations with
the director. Once that was done, sound and light could be configured.
We stumbled a few times, lost some momentum because we didn't really
know our jobs well (that's where the learning came in), but we regained
our footing and finished the week with some preliminary storyboards, a
look at one of the locations and our first casting call.
