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I joined a film class and we are on our way to make a short movie |
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I started a class and we are on our way to realize a short movie. This is going to be a diary about my experiences with it. So, you are all welcome to join me in all the troubles and adventures of movie making and I will do my very best to put it in words. For this blog it counts the same as for my other blog. It won't be a daily thing and there might be one or the other grammar error as I'm not a native speaker. I beg for forgiveness in advance already. But, you are all welcome to correct me, which I won't take personally but as a good lesson. And now, lean back, read and enjoy |
| I thought I just go to the class and we immediately start to make our movie. How naive I was. I knew this is going to be a lot of work and we will discuss a lot of thing, but, I really thought, we are starting with the script writing from first day on. Ok, none of my class mates have any experiences in movie making (beside our teacher of course) and we are a very colourful class of different people, different age and different characters. I'm more the impatient one, with a lot of ideas in my head. I can't wait to ask questions and to do this and that. My head is building a set up within a second and I can see details before someone mentioned it. It might be my age (I'm the oldest in the group, the youngest is 18 and I am 40 now, ouch) and the fever I felt so long inside, but never had the balls to make something about it and now, I just want to get started. The rest of the group (we are 10) is more shy and listening to the teacher. But, the teacher says, we are the people who will make the movie. We are the people who have to discuss. To make this boring stuff short, we have to make the complete thing. From the first word on, over the requisites, the locations, the set and so on. Yes, we have to make EVERYTHING! Only we have one or two cameras and a little bit of light. The rest is up to us. At the moment we are getting ready for our first exercise. Which means, we gonna have our first shooting rehearsal with a simple script in two weeks. Someone is waiting for someone at the main station, because the need to get right in time for an event in the adult education school. The other one is too late. And so they have to run, but can't make it right in time anyway. When they arrive they find out, that the event is canceled for some reason. And so they decide to have a coffee and a good laugh instead. We have to write the script, which is not the hardest job. But, we've to write the camera script as well, which is really a hard job to do. Already in the beginning I see a big problem. That girl is waiting for someone. It has to be obvious that she is waiting for someone. The best is, that this is obvious without words. Only with pictures. Not that complicated. So true. But, if you show her waiting with the clock, which is at every track here in Germany and it is most of the time a very big clock, than you've a time problem. She needs to wait there. You've to show, that she is waiting for someone at the main station. The easiest to show, that she is at the main station is, to let her wait at the stairs to a special track and show the clock, the track sign and some train signs right over her head. So far so good. But, if you film the track sign with a particular time, cut, another shot 10 minutes later, what about her waiting there under the sign. You've to film her exactly in that 10 minutes or the movie is wrong. But, we've only one Monday evening to film that rehearsal, which means, you've to get her right with the first take or else you are in trouble. You may laugh now and think she is crazy. This all is unimportant. But, didn't you often had a laugh, when you watched a movie and people were waiting for something and the clock is used to show it. And than, with the main take it has a complete different time, because the shoot was the other day, let's say in the morning 11 am, but the clock was set around 6 pm. Or, the tiny little grin you can't help, when the main actor has another tie in the same scene, only because the people forget about that and than it was too late to change it? And now, who is laughing? I chew on this problem for some days now already, but can't find a satisfying solution, The rest of the script is just a peace of cake  Well, not really, but nothing I had to think about for such a long time. anna |
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