For week 2, it was quite fresh to me. we attempted to break the coverage down into the demonstration of blocking and our mentor Roban analysed the entire process step one-by-one. As I always gained theoretical blocking knowledge from books, I never had experience in a practical exercise. Interestingly, during the exercise, we watched the scene details on the live monitor, so all the classmates could inspect something that needed to improve, such as the character may walk too fast and should be more communicative with other characters. Meanwhile, Mise-en-scène was one of the important elements during filmmaking, it provided a space for the movement of actors and made the shooting seemed to be smoothly and aesthetically. (Appropriateness of moving cameras and the blocking of characters would consist of a scene. )
Mise-en-scène is a concept which should exist in the director’s mind. As a result, for this week, I learned how to use tape effectively, such as T-stop, to tell the actors where to go within my expected scenes.
In terms of the question that our mentor mentioned in the class, what is the job of a film director? Initially, I reckoned a director should be able to know “everything” in a film team. More correctly, a director who should know everything in this film and to be a leader for deciding the style look like. Robin also encourages us to develop our own individual style. But how the director knows his style? As Tom said, even some director has no ideas on covering a scene until the day of shooting. Maybe, that is the director’s abilities when seeing the equipment, see the time schedule then they will know how to achieve.