This is the second Directing workshop and the last. Comparing to the last one, this one have more movement exercises.
Curve line and straight line - character/ camera movement/ set
This topic interested me the most as I had never heard of it before. He explained it well and showed us how having curve/ straight characteristic change the feeling of the scene with the actors' demonstrating. In words, it is difficult for me to explain what curve/ straight characteristic are. I will try:
Curve line - unpredictable
Straight line - hmmm straight line... you think straight, towards one goal
It is more understandable for camera movement. That is if it is moving in curve/ straight line. In the movie that Nigel showed us, Performance (1970), the camera movement is in straight line for the curve line environment. It would be too much of a mess if the curve line environment is filmed with curve line.
The environment/ set in Performance is curve lined. It was mess, things are everywhere and the camera aids towards the aim to make audiences to have no idea what the room looks like in full.
In our Studio Shoot, I am thinking to add some curve lined camera movements in the fight scene and after to aid the idea of being abstract. It will be helpful since the set is quite straight lined.
In the afternoon he talked about posture/ body language. It is a given and everyone should know what body gesture projects. It is good to have some reminder about our Studio Shoot since we have two very different characters in the film.
Overall, I enjoyed the Workshop very much and learned a lot. I really appreciate him and the actors who acted out different scenarios. These two blog post is not very in depth but I will probably revisit some of the "theories" in the future. This serves as a note so that I can look back to in the future. Right now, all I can think of is camera movements camera movements camera movements ...
camera movements ;)
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