In today’s class, Robin introduced us to different approaches of a filmmaking on a same subject which was very interesting to see how did the filmmaker went by. We just saw three short clips from ‘Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould’ (1993). The first was an interview style where this lady is telling about this gentleman, it was more of a documentary style film and it seemed natural and unrehearsed due to the plane flying above them and she looking up at the plane. The second approach was very artistic like, closeups of Gould playing piano but the visuals were of x ray vision, extreme closeups which showed the intensity of the subject and his passion for that piano. The final clip was more of a film like look, where actors were dramatizing one of his events or something similar. They were just three different approaches and I can imagine there will be other ways to the methods as well, it’s just a matter of observation and practise that is required in order to be well aware of what way you can go with the shooting.

In the other half of the lecture, we were given small class exercise, the first was a one shot of a scene of meeting between two people, which went well since there weren’t many dialogues, I specifically chose the frame as I thought that the both subjects are equally important as it was written in script, it was when I saw the original thing later in class that there were some dialogues missing and in nature it was all about the lady. Moving on the second exercise which was about interaction between 2 strangers in a train. I didn’t used any panning or tilt as it was a “confined” space, so I used the steady shots but with different zoom and angle variations. I’m happy with what I achieved as I knew what I was doing with the subjects. Lets see how it looks in the final version of the edit.