WEEK 6

In this week’s class, we mainly started to learn how to turn a script into a movie on the screen. For me, this was a very important turning point, because before that we were all learning the lens sense of the movie, the movement of the lens, and the frame size, lens type, video analysis, and some other things about what should be done in the early stage of production. And from this week, we began to practice planning how to shoot based on the script, and the teacher also asked us to discuss with each other what method to use to shoot the information and lines given in the script.

After this class, I also thought about how to make the information and lines in the script into a video format. If you show the beginning of the script in the way of a movie. For example, in the beginning, a man enters a restaurant to meet someone. How to move this scene to the movie screen. If it were me, I would have two ideas. The first idea is to shoot the man’s lower body first from behind the man in a handheld manner, and then shoot the man walking on the road, the camera follows the man’s pace, and then the man walks into the store and the camera follows in the shop when then the man sat down with the person to meet, the camera moved up to capture the man’s upper body and face. Take a picture of the whole process in a one-shot. Another way is to take a picture of the chef in the restaurant who is cooking. After the cooking is finished, the dishes are brought out. the camera follows the food delivered by the chef and then cuts to the point where the waiter takes the food and walks to the table outside. When passing by the door, the door suddenly opens, the camera stopped at the door, and a man came in outside the door, look around to see the person he wanted to see, and then cut to a table with a cup of coffee and the other man’s hand, and the man was in the distance. Then he walked over and sit down.

In fact, there are many ways to shoot which is better, and you need to make a choice based on the situation at the time and the position of the camera. I think it can take a very boting passage in a sxript and shoot a more interesting clip. This is something that must be studied and though about.