Reflection 4
In this week, due to the situation, I could not practice with camera to do a scene so Idid a storyboard, shot list and floor plan. Although the script is short, there are not so much dialogue, after all the classes before that, I consider a lot to make it as easy but show the relationship and conflict between the characters. What I think about is: who is the main character we want to focus on this scene? What happened or what is going to happen between the characters? What story may about then? It was just a simple scene, when I submitted my work online, I also have a opportunity to see other classmate’s work. That was fun that you can see the same script bur people will film it in different ways.
And about decoupage, as I studied, decoupage is not editing. It’s fundamentally distinct from editing that it is more or less applied or realised through the editing process. The term was initially split into two meanings ‘decoupage’ and ‘decoupage technique’ the initial relating to concerns of film form whilst the latter was roughly defined as the process of cutting up the script from the narrative, a detailed plan for shooting complete with camera indications, stage directions and editing directions. The reflection I wrote before that I have a wrong definition of decoupage now so far I got what it means and still need more time to learn and think about that. So the easy way to think of decoupage is that means ‘to cut up’.
Montage and Decoupage are two very important terms which have been used throughout film history. Varying definitions, functions and methodologies of such terms have been widely theorised and practised upon within cinema.A key difference that I found is that decoupage seems to apply to a single unified space, whereas montage can apply to multiple spaces(parallel montage) or a single space. In the end the terms are largely context dependant on whose definition you refer to them with, although each author has attempted to define a particular the terms as a particular process, the terms themselves seem to be somewhat dependant on the individuals philosophical approach to filmmaking.