This week’s workshop is centred around an exercise that is designed to give you more experience with filming (and working as a team) with the SonyMC50. Unlike last week we are experimentingwith the mobility of the camera and the expressive potential of the single (continuous) shot/take.
This short excerpt from Lee R. Bobker’s Elements of Film (1974) succinctly sets out the principles of film composition we are working with here.
Here is the relevant exercise sheet.
Pre-production for these sort of shoots (any shoots actually!) is vital. Here is a useful example (from Paul Ritchard) which shows the process of script to storyboard to floorplan.
Here is a storyboard template that may be useful (we’ll bring some printed copies to class).
And for those who want to see those past student single shot projects again!