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When filming a Movie how are the shots filmed, please read on?
Do you film the whole shot in on non stop sequence with two or more cameras for different angels and then edit or do you film each small piece,cut and change camera positions. Example you have two actors facing each other and they each have a script. After the first actor says their pasrt do you cut and reposition the camera on the other actor and film? Do you do this back and forth?
Or do you have one camera on one actor and another camera on the other actor both filming at the same time and then do the cuts in editing?
Please giver your expert advise as I am learning movie making and I am not in film school yet, however I am trying to grasp the concept. Thank You for your detailed answers and help- Blessings
Both ways work. Depends on your budget.
Sitcoms are filmed before a live audience with 3 or more cameras. They do two shootings, afternoon and evening, after a week of rehersals. Then they do “pick up” shots after the last shooting to correct for any flubs or missed action.
Except for “action” shots, filmed TV and movies are single camera. Action shots are multiple cameras because when you blow up Los Angeles you can’t go back and do it a second time.
Here they decide where they are going to shoot everything and then start with a Master shot, then do the closer shots, the close ups, another angle, asides and reaction shots.
Sometimes they shoot way out of sequence. You have two big actors with schedule problems and you shoot the diner scene twice, two weeks apart. No master shot possible. The camera looks directly at one actor and the director or someone else feeds them the other lines. Then two weeks later you shoot the other actor on the other side of the table. They never see each other for real and all the “acting” is truly “acting!”
Shots are grouped for budgeting reasons. The finals “cuts” are made by the 1st AD and Production Manager who take the script and break it into scenes, shots, days, actors, props and equipment. As the producer cuts the budget these two people have to consolodate and decide what scene get shortened, cut and what actors lose lines (who are then given to another actor).
One week an actor has lines on 12 pages from the 110 page script, by the end of the week they are cut to 9 pages and another actor has gotten their lines because they can’t afford to bring this actor back for another week or another two days. This saves the production $2,200 to $4,500 as a “one liner” gets $500 a day base, but the days are usually 12-14 hours so after 8 they get overtime and a 12 hour day becomes over $1,200 to a day player.
$3,000 translates in a 4 hours of simple second unit work. $3,000 transles into almost a week of film and processing on a feature.
A good 1st AD and PM can scrape a whole day of simple second unit work by cutting actors and scenes to bare minimum.
It’s about priorities. The director wants to take two cars out into the desert for a reason and six one liners get their pages shifted over a 30 day shoot so the director can send out an AD, camera crew, truck, two cars and two stunt players, which amounts to about $15,000.
Cutting six people down by 2 days each saves you $18,000.
The winner is the lucky actor they have to use because it’s convienent and that person goes from having 3 pages to having 10 pages and getting 30 seconds of screen time to getting 3 minutes of screen time.
AND they didn’t have to renegociate a credit, so that person can still be listed last in both front and ending credits.
Another poor actor who once thought they had 5 pages get’s reduced to a single line, off camera in the distance and one day on the set instead of a week. Thier pay goes from $4,000 for a week with overtime to $500 base pay and they are released before the noon meal.
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