Film Tv-1 Tutorial notes

We showed our rough cut Lenny’s in class today, basically just discussing what went well and what didn’t. For our Lenny we had good reviews, particularly with the opening establishing shot of the courtyard. The acting wasn’t very good which is something we had to work with but the experience of shooting our Lenny film was purely for the sake of figuring out how to work with our crew and establish our roles within the group. We practiced our ‘calling the shots’ which we struggled with at first but got the hang of it a lot quicker.  We only had an hour to shoot and ran out of time, as Paul told us we would.

The other groups had really good camera work as well. The camera cut between dialogue focusing on the different actors when it was their turn to speak. A few things that annoyed me with our Lenny was when the character Shannon spoke her hair was covering her mouth. We didn’t have much time to fix this on the day as we only had one hour but it made me think of the little things that need to be right for the audience to follow the story without being distracted by the little things. I wanted to get more camera angles of the dialogue between the two however, we simply didn’t have the time to get all the shots. I also wish we showed more cuts of Sharron walking towards Lenny. It makes me think of all the shots we are going to have to take for our actual film and how it will take a lot more time than we think to get everything right. It’ll be really good working with actors that actually want to be there.

We were also pretty lucky to shoot our Lenny on an overcast day as it made it easier to set up the white balance. My group and I are filming inside for most of our shoot so we will be manually setting up most of the lighting. I really enjoyed watching the other groups Lenny’s as it is a good way of seeing where other groups are at in terms of their creative choices and way of showing the same thing in all these different ways.

Some notes from Paul:
Something to take note of is that of people’s reactions. People tend to cut when the person has finished talking, however people want to see the reactions of the characters before we cut to the next person that is talking. I really like it when the camera shows someone’s face while the other person is talking to them. We like to see how someone takes in what people say.
Another thing to take note of is that of continuity of characters walking in and out of frame.

Here is the link to our video from the Lenny shoot