Today was our first practice shoot. Employing the storyboard and shot list that we had finished for homework last class, we borrowed and set up the film equipment in the primary playground, where there was not much noise/people. Due to the limits of the location, we had to use benches instead of couches, but this soon posed a problem for us: Because of the uneven height of benches, one of the character was looking down on the other when it should have been the other way round.
I was a thinker today in the IB learner profile, and after concocting and analyzing different solutions, I decided the simplest and most effective one was to let the actor who was too tall sit on a lower block. Although this seems like a minute, frivolous detail, the whole purpose of this exercise was to achieve the highest accuracy possible, in terms of camera angle and movement.
Another obstacle that met us was speaking the dialogue. Due to our limited time, we did not have time to rehearse and memorize the lines; therefore, we had to hold a piece of paper low enough so it would not be in the frame. Consequently, the actors frequently looked down to say the lines and the flow and continuity of the scene was interrupted. Therefore, we decided to let the boom mic holder hold the sheet of paper up as well, so that the actors could be more free in their movement and utterance of dialogue.
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