Reflection|
In week 4, after finished Assignment 1, we supposed to start filming one of four scripts which were provided by Robin in a group. However, the lockdown has made the outside exercise could not be done. Instead, Robin recommended us to do a shot list, a storyboard and a camera plan from the four scripts. It was quite familiar to do the storyboard because when I was in senior high school, I have had some experience in drawing comic books. Also, drawing a draft of comic books potentially motivates me to produce and visualise ideas into achieving storyboard. Personally, for the shot list and the camera plan, they were more precise and complicated to deal with, despite, the pre-preparation mainly decided the efficiency of filmmaking and the quality as well.
I realised my weakness was organising these kinds of stuff and through more practices such as attempting to split a good scene from a film out to a camera plan or redrawing a different storyboard to represent the scene ideally in my way.
It was much more I could learn about it in the field of filmmaking.
Reading: “The Background Action: How to Keep it Real and How to Get it Right”
“A successful setup of background leads a scene into a more proper atmosphere”. For example, now you are filming a gang fight but you hire old people in a nursing house, doesn’t it look weird and unreasonable?
In the reading, Tom considered that it was a challenge for every filmmaker to set up events outside the sphere of normal human experience. We may be able to simulate a background of a daily life properly, but in many sci-fi movies, most contents talked about the future of technology, it was nearly impossible to “simulate” an unreal thing. However, we can refer to “Interstellar”(2014), it combined creation with authentic theories which were supported by a group of scientists to make the film look more “realistic”.