Because the point of this video is about shot lists, not lighting. We don't have a full crew and a grip/electric truck to film well lit exterior shots when it's not the focus of the video.
Hello how to write many actions (not fight) in the same scene. For example : if man writing a book in his room, then clean the room , dress changing , switch off the light and go out As follows , Scene. Room Int/Day Man writing book ------cut to---- Int/Day Man cleaning Room ------cut to-------- Int/Day Man dress changing .------cut to ------ Int/Day Man switching off light and go out. Is this correct ? If not how to write it ? Reply please.
This is confusing. I’m trying to write a screen play but I find myself saying that the camera pans up. I kinda know it’s not professional and not what I want my crew to read. But how else would you write down that a women is laying on a platform wearing a gown and the camera pans up on her starting with her feet. I feel like there is a better way to get my ideas down.
You write that in the shot lost and you show it in the storyboard if you're directing. But you don't write it in the screenplay as that's for the director to interpret/decide. There you hint at it with the description: Jack stops short. A woman wearing stylish shoes for a night out is laying down on a platform, the hem of her red gown just reaching her knees. The gown is tied with a bright sash at the hips just below a plunging neck line. He nervously twitches. Shes the woman he met at the party last night. Here using the description and action you "suggest" revealing the woman from foot to head in the readers mind. Robert Mckee covers this in his book Story on pg 399.
@@PullMyFocus thank you who ever you are that helps. I had a learning disability so this is hard for me to learn all at once. I’m writing a screenplay on my old computer just for me to read for now. I want to be a director and direct my own film. I’m going to learn what a storyboard is next.
It is a little tricky to get it all but once you do, it just starts making sense. And love your one light test, very cool. Do another with a behind the scenes camera to show what you're doing.
@@PullMyFocus I watched it a second time, I believe i am getting confused by the numbers not being labeled like the #1 that says MS (master shot) the other numbers are names but doesn't say what kind of shot? Am I making sense? Lol
Doesn't matter if you have one, two, or twelve cameras. Purpose of this exercise is to confirm you "will" have the shots you need in the edit. Which cameras will record those shots is up to you or the camera dept when you shoot the scene.
like the examples a lot! ..... the dialog not so much; i know it's only an example video, but "scratch that" bugged me and felt unnatural and forced... but just my opinion
That's the point. The dialogue is not meant to be much of anything. It's an acting exercise with simple dialogue were the only thing that changes are the actions and scene needs you give the actors. We'll be doing a video on that. Here we're just using it to show the process lining shots so you focus on that, not the dialogue.
I recommend Acrobat as I save out my scripts in pdf to share with cast and crew. If Acrobat isn't working I would say create lines in the doc file you're using. I don't know of any software that lines a script outside of actual script supervisor software.
@@PullMyFocus Thank you for the reply. The problem with Acrobat that I'm having is that there's no easy workflow, no easy way to draw lines and label them. Do you put in a shape (line), a text box, and so on? every time? Or can you copy/paste etc? is there an easier way to do it so it doesn't take an hour per page? thank you
@@JacobJavor Yes, Acrobat can be a pain for workflow. I realize I should have said I use pdf's and I line them in Preview on a mac. It's much easier. Either way, I create a vertical line that I can easily adjust its length, and I create a text box at the top to denote the shot number. And yes, I copy and past like crazy. Hope that helps.
That would save a lot of time but it does mean very long takes where you can't cut to anything. You have to have one full take that works and that usually means compromises. Sometimes it saves time to have coverage, to shoot pickups of just one line that keeps ruining the whole shot.
OMG, when it comes to long takes Cuaron is the master. Children of Men is one of my top ten films of all time. Now let's talk the opening long take in Orsen Wells Touch of Evil as they cross the Mexican boarder, passing a car struck in traffic with a bomb in its trunk.
