For this lesson, I worked on camera 3 and filmed Trianna performing one of her original songs. I was worried I wasn’t going to be prepared because I didn’t get the shot list until the day we did it. Yet we had time to rehearse a few times before recording the performance which helped me prepare for every shot. I had four shots, first a CU on guitar, CU on fingers to guitar (panning), CU on talent (CU to MS) and CU on guitar. Originally the 2nd shot was a CU on guitar to fingers (focus adjustment) but this didn’t work. The focus wouldn’t change from guitar to fingers so the director (Ines) suggested doing a pan from the guitar to the fingers instead. Ines didn’t like how this worked so we tried a pan from the fingers to the guitar which worked much better. Rehearsal is a great chance for us to try out shots and make adjustments according to the directors taste. Who sees our shots in the gallery and can tell us if it looks good because I noticed the shots don’t look the best on the camera’s screen. The picture comes out better in the gallery and when we watch it back on the TV. So I need to rely on the director’s response. I think everyone went well the only problem I had was on the panning shot from fingers to the guitar, it felt jumpy and wasn’t as smooth as I wanted. Next lesson when we film this performance live, I will see if we can loosen the grip on the camera so the panning is smoother. As Daniel Arijon states in the Grammar of the Film Language book page 385; ‘Too fast or too slow a pan defeats the purpose by dwelling too long on the subject for the visual reporting involved, or hurrying across it without allowing the time necessary to grasp the details.’ The pan loses its effect if the details are lost.
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