In this lesson, we used our knowledge from the previous lesson and put it into practice. We set up our cameras and tripods and from here we went on to learn about sequences.
A sequence is a series of shots edited together to look like one fluid movement. When the brain takes in more than two shots it gets confused and thinks of it as one. So as sneaky cameramen and editors we can fool the human brain!
In groups of four we shot a series of frames to create a very simple sequence. My group's consisted of having a girl reading a magazine, her phone rings, she picks it up and exits. Very easy - but took a while.
During this lesson we also managed to lock down some film set lingo.
'Standby' - this is called out by the assistant director (director in our case) to get everyone quiet and ready for shooting. This is then called back so it is clear everyone is ready and in position.
'Turn camera over'/'Roll camera' - this is called by the assistant director again to the cinematographer who then presses the 'record' button. When this is done he/she calls back 'Rolling'
'Action' - this is called out again by the director and this tells the actors that they should begin their scene. 'Action' is called only once the camera has properly started rolling. You leave this space to allow editing leeway.
'Cut' - this is called once the scene has ended, again you must leave space between the end of the action and calling it to give editing leeway.
This was quite a fun lesson as it was our first experience actually shooting on the cameras.
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