Visitor Masterclass

Paul Dudbridge

4/10/15

Directing
On set - Cameras and Actors
Prep - Key for director. Insure confidence for director and show. Director needs to find the tone (high key,
light or the opposite) of the piece.
Shot list
Extreme wide shot
Close up
Mid-shot
Wide mid-shot
Over shoulder
Extreme close up
Master/establishing
Cowboy (see the guns)
Extreme close up - Violence or romance. Close up is an arms length away.
Connotations - what something suggests (red sign - anger, danger)
Shot list - write it short hand (e.g. MCU, Wide, CU)
Multi-camera
Compromised lighting and camera. They can get in the way.
Coverage E.g. Master, single (med, CU, MCU), single (med, CU, MCU). - Film whole thing for edit.
2 Takes
2 shot and single - could suggest two people together and the single being excluded.
3 shot and single - Suggest gang of three against 1

Dont hand held, to tripod and then back again. Keep to one and then the other.
E.g. calm/nothing going on/relaxed - tripod. Action begins - Hand held.
Lighting
Key Light - source of the light, 45 degrees to camera. More light directed at face, the better someone looks directly front.
Fill light Back light Highlight in the eye suggests life. Dead bodies - take out glint in eye from light.

Visitor Masterclass

Paul Dudbridge

4/10/15

Daylight - outdoors. 5500/5600 Kelvin

Tungsten - indoors 3200K
White key light (daylight), orange back light (tungsten) - If set camera to day light, key = white, back =
orange
White key light (daylight), orange back light (tungsten) - If set camera to tungsten, key = blue, back = white
- OPPOSITE.
Add temperature with gel (filter) to HMI cameras.
Hard/soft light
Hard light - harsh shadows
Soft light - soft, shadows
Composition
Rule of thirds
Line an object up splitting the shot into 3.