This clip is from film Brgin Agian (2013, John Carney), the scene starts from 1:12 in the video above, and  17:20 in the actual film. The scene starts with Dan (Mark Ruffalo) comes into the bar and sits down, and immediately cut to the other side of him, from a close-up to a mid-shot. In […]

In Week 3 online courses started, of tree parts of this week I was most enlightened by Part 2. Coverage of two bar scenes from Gossip Girl (2007) and The Fire Within (1963). The former one is, as Robin described, shot-reverse-shot between two characters, shot type alternates between mid-shots and close-ups. I found this coverage […]

One question popped up in class: what does a director do? I don’t know how to answer that exactly. In my mind I always think that a director sort of does everything, but also sort of nothing. A director has to oversee the whole production, he/she conduct actors, he/she makes decisions on what kinds of […]

The first assistant director is responsible for many things, contacting and hiring crew, renting or purchasing equipment, breaking down the script, and what I learnt from the class —— preparing a shooting schedule. I think it is a quite difficult job, in order to set the schedule, the first AD needs to communicate with the […]