Subtext storywriting4/1/2023 ![]() ![]() To reinforce the calm he was feeling, I shot the remainder of his singles with the camera locked down on a tripod.Ĭhad’s “calm” also means the doctor’s reality was suddenly thrown into chaos because he just learned that he was talking to a ghost. Once Chad gets everything off his chest and says what he wanted to say, he is now at peace. ![]() It’s worth noting that I didn’t “add” movement or shake the camera – it is very difficult to hold a camera perfectly still, and that added more than enough movement without making it look too jarring. That is, I didn’t use a tripod so there is some slight movement. To reinforce the chaos Chad is feeling, I filmed his singles handheld. He’s confused and not sure what to do or say. There is no camera movement at all.Ĭonversely, “Chad” is having a rough time. To reinforce this, the singles of him were filmed with the camera “locked down” on a tripod. The doctor is a confident man he’s “rock solid” in his attitude and knows exactly what is going on. Most filmmakers use either over-the-shoulder shots or a two-shot to show both actors, but for the most part, the majority of their scenes are “singles’ (Only one actor is seen at a time.) I did this for a very specific reason – to set up the visual subtext… One of the first things you’ll notice is I broke another “Rule” in filmmaking because the two main actors are rarely seen on screen together. Remember, the key is subtlety, not big, bold gestures. When you first watched the film you probably didn’t even notice what I did to visually add subtext – you weren’t supposed to – but how I filmed the various sections of each scene was designed to make you feel something that made the story that much more believable. Unlike the last example where I placed the actor on the “wrong” vertical line to show that something was off, in Unscheduled Visit I used a different technique to reinforce the story being told. To put it another way, this could be considered a “normal” view, and it is one that filmmakers use quite frequently. ![]() This is what we as viewers typically consider to be the most visually appealing. Plus, there’s a lot more that goes into good framing and shot composition than just the placement of the person’s eye.īy using the Rule of Thirds, both characters have plenty of “empty space” to look into. ![]() It’s important to remember that even though the rule states that their eye “should” be on the intersecting lines, this is filmmaking and not still photography… the actors do move during the scene and it would be virtually impossible to keep their eye exactly on the intersection for the entire scene. His eye is also very near the intersecting lines but not exactly, and the vertical line also runs down the middle of the actor. MacDonald) is placed along the right vertical line because he is looking camera left. In the second screenshot, the Docter (played by Michael G. Notice how the vertical line pretty much divides the actor into two equal parts. The eye that is physically closest to the camera is not directly on the intersecting lines, but it is fairly close which is close enough. In the first image, “Scott” (played by Chad Bryden) is placed along the left vertical line and is looking towards the other vertical line. ![]()
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