I was one of the actors for Tan’s shooting. In his shooting, he used dolly, and I never used it before and I learned something about it.

We ran into some problems during the shooting-the track irregularity. The tracks cannot be connected very well, there are some small gaps between two tracks and we tried to push it in, it just got stuck. Then Simone suggest to put some sand bags on the bottom of tripod to make the camera more steady. And it worked! However camera still not steady enough. After that, Simone suggest that we should use the red rope to make a connection between tripod and camera, that is what the red rope for. Then when shooting, pull the rope down as much as possible. Finally we make the camera steady as much as we can.

What’s more, something about framing.

Tan was shooting a walking scene. Simone and I are walking, I’m in front of Simone, and we have a small conversation, Tan want me to walk off after listen to Simone’s last sentence. But somehow there is no enough space in the frame, and I always walk off a bit earlier than he wanted. And we are walking really slowly. After few shots, we watch the clips to make some improvement. And we just find out that Tan’s frame is not tight enough, there is much space unnecessary around us two. So we suggest that tight the frame up, then I can have more space to walk off. Finally it gets much better.