For the mini individual project on Friday, I think I’d just like to film something ‘cool’. This kind of follows on from the expertise filming exercise we did, but it’s a much more common thing.

In films when the characters are not doing much and just killing time; the way they do it is much cooler, serene, sentimental, and charismatic than your average folk. What inspired this idea was some videos I saw on youtube. It was a short behind the scene video for a photoshoot. The model just posed, sat, walked around, tied their shoe laces, played with their hair, looked out the window – stuff that everyone does. But somehow, it was so serene and it really made me admire the cinematography and editing involved. How did they do it? I want to know and try for myself.

Also, the scene we saw on Friday of a man and woman conversing in a room is similar. All they did was talk, walk around the room, and sit. Yet the camera angles and movement, as well as the body language of the actors  and their interaction with the set made the scene more exciting. Actually, when I watched this scene, it reminded me of another scene from a film we saw in semester one, called ‘Red Desert’. There were two characters conversing in a room, but this room was completely bare. So the blocking of the characters and composition of the frame had to be more elaborate (not sure if this is the right term) in order to compensate for the plain set.

Content vs Camera vs Set Design vs Editing vs Character vs Audio