Leopold

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  • in reply to: Focal Lengths #216018
    Leopold
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      Hi Steven,
      Great question! I’d love to hear both your thoughts on this too, James and Roger.

      I love the compression of space on long lenses. Like Jens Fischer shot some scenes in Swedish Änglagård (1992 Colin Nutley). There he saved the long lenses for when a deep family secret was revealed to the main character for example.
      • compressing her both in the flattened perspective of the long lens
      • and closing her in with a super shallow depth of field (nose tip-ear tip),
      • and framing super tight with the long lens for her reaction.

      I like to think of it as the intamacy between the subject and the audience/camera, putting myself into or distancing myself to the topic at hand. Like if a topic is uncomfortable, I will distance myself to it. But I can also approach it closely to soemthing very uncomfortable so that we can not flee what is happening. Like in Sid and Nancy, when everything hits the fan in their room. That was uncomfortable and I love how you didn’t back off from it Roger! And the closed hotel door, and their helplessness to be nothing but themselves, lost.

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      in reply to: Storyboarding with Locations in Mind #216017
      Leopold
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        Hi Jomo,
        I do both, based on the production needs.

        Production boards can be location specific.
        Like when you wamt to squeeze in more sets into the same studio space and want to save space (and rent). Then it can be good to know how much of a set will actually been seen from various angles and lenses based on everyones visuall ideas and ambitions. Film Directing Shot by Shot has a demo at the end on how to draw to various lenses and to scale floor plans.

        Pitch and prep boards can be looser, more blue sky ideas about what kind of compositions and rythms we are after. These can be more visionary ambitious, compositionally but I like to get as specific as possible as soon as possible.
        Leopold

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