Shooting for the moon and missing leaves you floating aimlessly in space with a limited oxygen supply. Have you ever seen an indie short or feature that worked really, really hard to convince you they were bigger budget than they were but their fringed edges were flapping for all to see (evidently I’m feeling illustrative...
Monthly Archives: July 2011It isn’t fair to the actors to have them up and running before they can even get properly made up to be their characters. The time spent being made up can be something of a transformative time for an actor, allowing them to muse over their character’s thoughts, emotions, lines… or they could just use... This post was originally written a couple years ago with 35mm adapters in mind, but with the DSLR trend allowing for a sleeker setup and having shot with both, I’ve learned that each format will inevitably cost you in little ways you might not expect. Investigate what sort of tripod works best, as well as... Find what you want out of their performance, and move on when you have it. An actor tries their best to be in the moment of that scene as their character… to make is as real as they can to themselves (unless they’re using some method tricks). Asking them to do something like that over... |
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