Easiest way to shoot a dialogue scene?

[dtjohns1]

I'm new to shooting "scenes" since I come from a music video background but have taken an interest in it lately. My question is since how do you film a scene to make it the easiest to edit later visually and sound recording wise? Also what happens if you have sounds in one take that don't correlate to another. For ex. there are keys jangling in one take but the keys aren't moving in the shot that you cut to? Right now I've been taken a whole scene and filming little sections of it at a time because I'm not dealing with good actors and we have to film each couple of lines in a new take to nail the right emotion and pacing but it's a pain to deal with in the editing room.

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

I'm new to shooting "scenes" since I come from a music video background but have taken an interest in it lately. My question is since how do you film a scene to make it the easiest to edit later visually and sound recording wise? Also what happens if you have sounds in one take that don't correlate to another. For ex. there are keys jangling in one take but the keys aren't moving in the shot that you cut to? Right now I've been taken a whole scene and filming little sections of it at a time because I'm not dealing with good actors and we have to film each couple of lines in a new take to nail the right emotion and pacing but it's a pain to deal with in the editing room.

You should check out the audio section. There are some stick threads that discuss basic audio concepts.

In general, for narrative film, the dialog is captured via on location recording of the actors, through mics which are mounted on booms, placed in set elements, or lavaliers mounted on the talent. Most 'sounds' that are heard in a narrative film are due to adding them in during post production.

Lo/nobudget films may not be that sophisticated, and so one will hear sounds that are generated from the set which are not just 'dialog'.

'continuity' is the process of making sure that what is happening in the set is the same from take to take and different shots of the same scene, whether it is keys moving to 'jangle', or amount of liquid in a glass that an actor is drinking (or appears to drink...).

As a note these sorts of questions are probably more appropriate in the 'director' section, as they involve the direction of the film making activity...