Before I got into this course, I was attracted by the name of course – “The Scene in Cinema”. Personally, I think that bringing up an impressive film, not just about the depth of script or the performance of characters. Every scene appears in front of the audience is designed precisely and effectively. For this cinematic sense, that is what we chasing for.
In the first week, I brought my curiosity about cinematography into this studio for extending my knowledge. It was my first time starting up with a more advanced cinema camera. Robin was also refreshing some of the basic cinematography knowledge such as exposure, depth of field, aperture, the white balance…etc.( It is too important so we have to be used regularly or otherwise, we may forget it). In terms of “coverage”, which was I did not know about before I got into this studio. In my initial thoughts, it seemed to be shooting enough footage for the edit. By practicing with a group, we could see the moving arrangement shown on the monitor was slightly inaccurate as we imagined. Also, the blocking of the camera that we set up was not covering the script entirely. After many practical attempts, the “coverage” has been re-defined as consisting of all the shots to portray the scene by this exercise in my recognition.
Someone said filmmaking could seem like making a dish. Dedicated coverage plays a role in fresh food, professional film equipment plays a role in entire kitchenware and finally, the place which mixes the whole ingredients is the kitchen, which is the editing room. Interestingly, Tom also indicated that a scene that is covered with a lot of different angles is constructed in the editing room(2009,p.19). We may sometimes see the director in the film also is the editor as a cook knows how to fully express ideas into his dishes. However, the hardest is to have an editor who has pretty much similar thoughts(or had working experience together) in order to keep the same style and speed up the whole process at the same time.