EMS30 – Production – Lights, Camera, Action
- when the script is done and the actors are hired and the sets are built and the locations are arranged and all the stuff is ready to go, then we are in PRODUCTION
- a basic day of production looks like:
cameras are in a place, lights are put up to aim at the place, sets are designed for lights and cameras, actors are in make up and wardrobe
once the set is ready and cameras are ready and lights are on and everything is in place, then, the actors come in – this could take hours
actors often spend hours in a trailer waiting for lighting to get up and right
who stands on the set and acts like the actors to set the lights?
- a stand-in – a kind of ass’t or wannabe or something who just stands there
Another group of funny jobs you don’t know about from production
GAFFER –
- a gaffer is an electrician – he/she rigs lights, runs cable, sets up generators and deals with the electric around lighting –
- busy job, lots of hard work setting up, and then, pausing when the cameras roll
GRIP
- set mechanic – build things that are needed to do a shot – camera dollies (track that the camera rolls on to get a moving shot) – tool guys with pipes and all kinds of set pieces and so on
BEST BOY –
- the head electrician
Cinematographer-
- also called the Director of Photography – the person who gets the cameras and the lights to do whatever the director wants
- the DOP works with LIGHT, DARKNESS and COMPOSITION (means whats in the frame and what the camera sees)
- basically he/she is a camera expert combining science, tech and art
Director – what does he/she do on set?
- combines all the elements that are there to make the movie from the script – turn the words into pictures that are of actions shot on the set or location
- tell actors how to move, deliver lines and so on (NOTE – does a STAR get easily bossed around by a director? No. Robert Downey Jr. does whatever HE thinks is right for a scene
- the director is responsible for getting the other crew members to create a certain look – a way or style that shows the image that best tells the story or makes the audience feel whatever
Actor –
- to play a character from the screenplay in the best way to make the audience RELATE and FEEL the feelings of the story
- the best actors are the ones who are the best at making us feel their feelings - communicating their feelings to us in the most dramatic and realistic way
- LIVE the part in a way that looks like it’s really happening
- Last, but maybe not least is to be able to PHYSICALLY do or show what needs to be shown
- Eg Salt – Angelina Jolie – she had a ton of stunts, action, fights, etc all badass
A bunch of people, many we never discussed, all have to work together to create the production and it is a HUGE, EXPENSIVE ordeal
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