French style shooting?
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Zak Forsman
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just like shooting here, but with sunglasses on and a filterless cigarette dangling from your lips.
Zak Forsman
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Zak Forsman
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seriously though. i have not seen november. but from "french style shooting" i imagine they are referring to french new wave which was indicative of handheld, documentary style shooting, available light, very raw, jump cuts, very "free" and inventive with the cinematic form.
Actually they explain it right when they mention it.
What they are talking about is a trick to save time in shooting closeups. "French Closeups". Rather than moving all of the lights and the camera for a whole new set up, you have the actors switch places instead and move the camera slightly. Obv. you can only get away with this in all situations, but you can, as they did in November, for 2 closeups in the Hallway.
Maybe they only mention it on the director commentary, but they explain it on the DP commentary at the same point. But that's what they are referring to, saving time in a hectic shooting day by flip flopping the actors rather than the camera.
In that instance, as with a lot of instances in November, the two shot was probably done favoring one actor. that allows for the two shot and a closeup to be filmmed at the same time if you have two cameras. So that's probably what they did here if they even had a two shot for that hallway scene. They set up a two shot favoring one actor. Pushed in for that person's closeup, then had the actors switch places for the other person's closeup. All of the lights could be tweaked minimally for each shot without resetting and three shots were gotten with one set up basically.
What they are talking about is a trick to save time in shooting closeups. "French Closeups". Rather than moving all of the lights and the camera for a whole new set up, you have the actors switch places instead and move the camera slightly. Obv. you can only get away with this in all situations, but you can, as they did in November, for 2 closeups in the Hallway.
Maybe they only mention it on the director commentary, but they explain it on the DP commentary at the same point. But that's what they are referring to, saving time in a hectic shooting day by flip flopping the actors rather than the camera.
In that instance, as with a lot of instances in November, the two shot was probably done favoring one actor. that allows for the two shot and a closeup to be filmmed at the same time if you have two cameras. So that's probably what they did here if they even had a two shot for that hallway scene. They set up a two shot favoring one actor. Pushed in for that person's closeup, then had the actors switch places for the other person's closeup. All of the lights could be tweaked minimally for each shot without resetting and three shots were gotten with one set up basically.
Zak Forsman
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you sure it doesn't just mean shooting... "with tongue"?
I think, but only if your tongue is handheld and breaks the fourth wall.
lol i really hope not!!