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June 27, 2004
Shooting without a story
Just captured 23 minutes of climbing and related shots.
Shooting as if watching watching, shooting without a story, makes for tough editing, I can tell that again already. We didn't for example shoot anybody looking up at the climbers. We also missed shots of the climber reaching his goal, which he did several times. We didn't shoot the wall very well.
We also had lots of badly framed shots and jittery shots with the person filming either yelling suggestions to the actor, or commenting the action. What I learned from Rubin's observations and from watching our own rushes, can be summed up in two rules:
- Don't move the camcorder
- Don't participate
Shooting according to these two rules feels odd at first. You find yourself in an editing frame of reference. You do not also exist socially in the film. It resembles writing about software more than blogging. Both you and the reader look on as observers and partners. Each time you tell instead of show, you interrupt and bother your partner. Each time you show instead of tell, your partner gets it almost telepathically.
Posted by Mark at June 27, 2004 07:24 AM