While this exercise was fairly simple, again I struggled with finding an action and a creative way to shoot it. Whenever I watch shows and films, I never seem to pay attention to how the character navigates through a scene. It’s always so seamlessly made that you forget theres a cameraman behind that shot who directed it. Thinking more on how characters move in a scene, I could only think of high budget shows where its shot in a studio and a camera is filming them from the side or whichever direction as they walk. But what is the low budget and more meaningful way of doing this? As I said before, that I had never really noticed how characters move, that is not because I am not paying attention but almost as if those scenes have no purpose. We obviously have to know that a character has left one place and is going to another, but in the same way I think that they should have a greater objective than going to the next room. In the clips Paul showed us, they incorporate mirrors and that adds depth to how the character leaves the room.
In a Tarantino film (not a fan), his characters usually walk into a room with the purpose of murder or for some unnecessarily long dialogue, but its still as if the characters walk has more purpose than just moving.
Kill Bill, 2003 film directed by Tarantino
After watching the recent It movie, I noticed how the director moved his characters in the movie, mainly on bikes. This is interesting and once again meaningful, as bikes are generally used in horror involving kids and also its just a genius way to show where characters are going.
Stranger Things (2016)
It (2017)
The Shining (1980)
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