We Have Film School At Home

My assignment was to put together a short scene that involved several transitions and a dialogue, using the more speeded up process that I used before for color correction. Here, I have maybe 4-5 different shots, the first two cuts are what I now know are called “cut on action”, and the remaining cuts are some kind of dialogue cut, or a POV cut? The way I see it, is that the cut to the bottle works, because it is cutting to what the protagonist is seeing. Alternatively, the cut draws on the viewer’s understanding that they are watching a dialogue.

In either case, the color correction presets I had developed worked, even though this is shot in the daytime, which was great to see work. (I made a slight adjustment in a separate node where I adjusted gain but that was it).

This was also an experiment in a concept that I’ve been thinking through, using subtitles to allow me to vary the dialogue of the actors regardless of what they are saying. (Because I do music video work, it sort of doesn’t matter what they actually say, so if I can write my own dialogue independently, that is always interesting).