I shoot this dialogue scene on this weekend. Before I shoot, I already write the plan, script and storyboard. However, I have changed the script because of the limit of actors. The primal script is picked up from the famous film Flipped. This scene shows the warm relationship between the father, daughter and uncle who mentally retarded. It is hard to find a person who can act the uncle. So finally, I determined to change a story, which talk about three females.

New script

Reflection about Week8 individual exercise

 The back-story of this scene is that Lucy brings her daughter Julianna going to hospital to visit an old friend Polly. Polly never give up even she got a serious ill, she cherish every moment of her rest of life. Lucy want her daughter Julianna be encouraged by the strong and positive spirit Polly have. So, when she plan to visit Polly, she decided bring her daughter together. Finally, Julianna really completely encouraged by Polly, she realized not only herself, but also everyone should cherish and enjoy every live moment.

Because I just shoot this scene in one day, so when I do the editing, I realized some significant points. Firstly, when I shoot the dialogue shot, I need require that each character need leave pause after they say their one line. I haven’t done it, so there is a little hard to cut the dialogue so fluently and natural. Also, I need very precisely confirm the consistency of every character’s position and gesture, movements in different shot. For example, I did one medium shot of one character, but I haven’t confirmed the direction of another charater’s head. As a result, when I cut to a wide shot, I find it is a big bug! In addition, three people’s dialogue shot, I should really carefully focus the action line between the three characters. Their action lines provide a proper way to design the camera position. When I finish this exercise, I deeply thought shot a dialogue scene not so difficult, but the question is how to make shots be interesting and amazing? I need continue improve my skills, I hope after those lessons I can create better scene in next time.