Multimedia Journalist
Week 5 - Blocking
The Game was an activity to explore camera setups and action lines to create an adversarial card game sequence. The intention was to block the scene to minimise camera setups needed for coverage, but block a variety of angles to increase tension. We planned to use angles to suggest an intimate space and then subvert that with a humorous twist. Filming each character individually each setup covered the entire scene to give sufficient coverage for the editor. Working with only two lights meant resetting the lights along with the camera, creating creative challenges, such as for the wide shot. There could have been more setups to explore the angles for each character and better create tension, but we had to relocate our shoot from one studio to another due to a class, eating up a fair bit of time packing down, finding a new location, and setting up. This had the benefit of making the team think fast on iots feet and work together to move, and plan on how best to block the rest of the shots in a new space without breaking continuity.