Reflection
In this week, our group talked more about what was decoupage, at first, questions that were coming up in my mind were what is “decoupage” and what is the relationship with “Mise en scène”. By watching the two clips which provided by Robin, “My sex life, or How I got into an argument” (1996) by Arnaud Desplechin and “Full Moon in Paris” (1984) by Eric Rohmer, I found that they have something similar to “decoupage”. In both of scene, they were all filmed by a single shot with a proper background setup (mentioned in last reading). Then, through “Mise en scène” by the exercise of the camera, a perfect one-shot scene was born. This scene seemed to be easily executed, but the hardest was to arrange the pre-preparation. So basically, from a storyboard, a shot list and a camera plan, these already consist of the preparation of “decoupage”.
Reading: Matching For Continuity” 2009 in Reilly
In the reading, the writer, Tom, mentioned an important idea about the continuity of the film. “Although films look has continuity, films are not shot in continuity”. Which means filmmakers would need to pay more attention to construct the equation of each scene and each day, and each department has their issue to solve. For instance, the lighting should keep the conditions are same which also following the needs of the script, or if in some scene need rain but there is not, then the department should figure it out like making artificial rain. So rehearsal makes the preparation of actors and the film teams get used to pushing the progress.