Focused heavily upon studio terminology and etiquette.
Although I have some experience film making, I had never worked with a
multi-camera set up before. I was familiar with most of the terminology but did
manage to add a new word to my vocabulary or rather a new meaning to a word I
already knew.
Tracking back and forth, I was already aware of and assumed
that you would also track left and right but I was mistaken. The correct terminology
is to “crab” left or right. I found this underlying theme of “seaside” quite
amusing. For as well as learning the term to “crab” we were also tasked with
tilting, panning, zooming and focusing on a poster of Finding Dory.
Going up to the gallery was exciting. It was a bit hot and
uncomfortable but that didn’t diminish how beneficial it was. As each student
got the opportunity to try out all of the different production roles. We all got
a sense of the industry terminology we will have to use throughout the duration
of the module.
Some of the waiting made me feel like I wanted to jump-cut
my life. Jonathan Dawson expresses a simile of my own thoughts in reference to
Jean Luc Godard, “Godard just went at the film with the scissors, cutting out
anything he thought boring”. But, even
the waiting around was part of the learning process. When it came time for me
to sit in the vision mixer chair I was able to use the control panel. Switching
between camera feeds reminded me of scene from Wayne’s World.
I prematurely pressed the fade from black twice. The director and production
assistant counted down from five and I pressed the button at the end of the
countdown instead of waiting for the prompt word which follows the countdown.
Which reminded me of the toilet scene from Lethal Weapon 2
Back in the studio we did the partially silent countdown
from five which reminded me of yet another scene from Wayne’s World
The associations between films are for me a memory aid that demonstrates some
of the principals learnt in this weeks’ workshop.
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