Friday 6 February 2015

Digging Deep -" do's" and don'ts" of Shot taking'

Day 9

8:30 am-discussions going on between the director and the cameraman with the breakfast on the mess table. Today the director is Hemale and Kirti is the cameraman. I see them coming out of the mess after having their discussion. We all decided to meet at 10:30 on the the set.

10:40 everybody has arrived. Hindol was constantly supporting the director in preparing him mentally before the shoot. Hemale was sitting quietly going through his shots, having small talks with Hindol and Kirti. Jubraj , me and Ashok were collecting props.

Sir has informed us before hand that he won’t be able to present today till the second half. So everybody took the their share of responsibility to manage without him. Yet comparatively it was quite slow. We could take only three shots till the time sir arrived on set that was around 3pm. What I felt it was because the Director couldn’t take a call when it was required. A director should trust the cinematographer but when the cinematographer also goes clueless the director has to finally take charge of the situation.

We spent way too much time on taking a simple shot where Jubraj offers Soumee a tissue paper. Soumee is drinking water and takes the tissue paper wipes and off the blood from her nose. The actions were simple but we were looking for way too much emotions in this shot that too by setting the camera in certain angles or changing the magnifications. May be it was not looking very magnificent. But what I think is not every shot in your movie is meant to be so. Ups and downs has to be there.

Sir demonstrated the same thing try to shoot actions emotions would come naturally if they have to. Instruct your actors to display concrete actions. If they have read the script they know what emotions the character is going on while doing a particular action.

We wraped up the shoot by 5:30pm. Today it’s my shoot and yes I am pretty nervous but let’s see how things roll.

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