Final Reflection

In class practice

This semester, we did quite a lot of in class practices, which I think very useful. First one is that “everyone needs to direct”, well, it was not very perfect. Most of us didn’t really have time to re-film the shot due to the time limit. I am really not good at communicate with other (not just because my poor English, I am just think very slow). But some time people like me just need to be pushed to talk to others. And thank you to those who have to listen to my poor English. The reason that I think this exercise is useful is that it makes me couldn’t rely on other people. I need to be the person who decide everything, although it is just one shot. On the other hand, we have to get familiar with the crew and the equipment very quickly. I need to tell people my idea and my opinion.

The second one will be “get familiar with exposure, focus, focal length, ND filter and gain”. I still think we should learn this when we start study about filming. No matter study this entire thing at home on YouTube or ask tutor or friends. Without knowing about exposure and depth of field, it will be quite difficult for us to discuss about filming or communicate with others.

Investigation

My investigation is about running scene in different movie.

At the first stage, I was thinking about investigate the using and meaning of running scene in different kind of movie, such as the difference between running scene in Japanese movie and American movie, or the difference between action movie and feature movie. But when I watch some of the movie, the reason people using running scene in their movie, basically they just follow the script, such as chasing scene can help to create a tense atmosphere.

I found out that the process of making running scene is much interested and practical. So I start my series of running scene practice and analysis the running scene from movie.

running scene analysis

Running scene practice

practice #1

practice #2

practice #3

Reflection

Doing an investigation by ourselves can improve our ability of set up question, planning investigation and solving the question. Through this investigation, I need to set up my own methodology of investigation, I need to find my own crew and arrange equipment. It is not a perfect investigation, but I did gain a lot of experience.

When I doing my own running scene, the biggest problem is camera control. Filming a running, I need to coordinate the balance between camera movement and the change of focal length. I have someone helping me with the focal length, but it didn’t work really well. Sometime it is due to runner is running faster than we move, or because I didn’t moving the camera towards the right angle.

But I did experience quit a lot during practices, there are few problems that I think I need to improve. First of all, I should do a script. Even though I set up a shot list, it is still a little be confused when I really doing the shot. The second thing is following the plan. I didn’t really follow my methodology this time, so I lost some of the process. It will be better if I following my plan.

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