Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Film blocking workshop


"Blocking" is one of my favorite subjects in filmmaking. Well, one of many. Blocking refers to the scheme of movements for the actors and the camera in a scene. Tonight I held a seminar on this for our team, and showed a compilation that I had made, of movie scenes with examples of good blocking and "compositions in movement". Hitchcock was good at this, so I used several examples from his films. Then I let the participants stage small scenes and film them to practice their knowledge.

The picture above is from "Hollywood Camera Work", an excellent resource on (film) blocking and staging.

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