My next task – and a brainstorm of how I’m going to get there.
Invent 2 scenarios tailored for Lauren and Karen – for their actions. Longer scenes, more complex in nature – they don’t need to involve something that
This is a challenge – it might be the biggest flop. At this point, I feel like Lauren could do anything almost and make it look great. For Karen, I would like to create something that I feel might be fitting for her persona and for her actions. This might turn entirely on it’s head and that’s scary.
Lauren: (enter – moving )
- Looking out
- Beach/forest
- Nature – would be good. Or the opposition of some kind of metallic environment… building 100 – or lower down)
- Lauren should find purpose BUT she almost doesn’t need it – there’s enough in just watching her walk
- Contrast in wides and close-ups (mid-close-ups) – with long lenses
Moving through the supermarket or through an outdoor space
Buying a book
Karen: (exit)
- Quick
- Methodical
- Stairs?
- Hurry down the stairs/up the stairs for something
- Where can I find stairs with good opportunities for coverage?
- Is this even worth trying or am I biting off more then I can chew? More then is useful?
- Getting the mail from the mailbox/picking up the paper
- Something boring like returning a book (or looking for a book in the library)
- Less extreme difference in coverage
Moving through a sequence to station to get on a train
- Getting on the train
- Walking to a bus stop and waiting at the bus stop & then bus leaves
- Queuing for something
- Walking in the supermarket//contrast could be outdoor market
(At Least) SIX Shots:
- Long Wide Length Wide Shot looking down – actor walking away from camera
(it would be great to have a similar wide (6mm) to the
- Wide Shot parallel to walk
- Wide shot of traveller walking towards camera
- Tracking — get some different angles
- Looking up (slight angle) on side
- Walking directly into (towards) camera – how will this be for the “personnages” involved?
- Following behind
- Tacking ahead (slightly on the side)
- Some kinds of gestural closeups – the bag/the paper —— no, this is too predictable – I want the shots to be a better then that. I need to watch more, to think more and learn more.
I’d like to have some inherent differences between the two (on a base level that I don’t tell the girls about)
- indoor/outdoor
- Fast/slow
- Contrast between wides and close personable faces and expression (wide covers action)
- And similarities: building of some momentum and then a stop
Also – shoot a guy, in that same corridor and with those same ideas as Lauren and the coverage – or two guys if possible….
(people not involved with the course, maybe actors…different ages could be good too)
AND shoot all subjects walking across screen in a busier space (outdoors)
Walking through skate parks
Inherent tools are the ones they already have… as opposed to what is taught
- Getting into the car