What went good in the rehearsal and what we should continue doing – Week 9/10

By getting more into to our roles and following the system of hierarchy, this improved as we talked about this in detail in the group meetings after the rehearsal. Collaborating in an honest way, opened up for creating solutions. Rabiger’s article on developing a crew, shows how important it is to continue developing standards and communication all the way through the production. We’ve learned how important it is that the crew together and the actors understand each other, the development of a terse and unambiguous language of communication and the confirmation that equipment is functioning, are crucial aspects of crew development. One example is when our camera woman wanted to try a different camera angle (handheld instead of on the tripod) and the groups response to this. The angle she wanted to use can be seen in this clip at part 2.04 – 2.08; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESdn0MuJWQ&a=JJ2XmQZqgbA&playnext_from=ML

The shaking camera angle might interfere with the rules of having the camera constantly on the tripod, but at the same time this is the cameraperson’s field and for the project the decision is left to her. Not all of us liked the idea, but for respect for the cameraperson we decided to give it a go both ways. And it worked!

Other rooms for improvement during the rehearsal were working with the actors. If a suggestion of change on lines came up, letting them do it their way was more natural and worked better for both the crew and the actors. Communication development within the crew so far has also shown another field of production; project management. In terms of the learning progress of Film-Tv 1, this skill is learning ful and challenging but teaches me a lot of time priority, paper work decision and communicating to crew and actors in different ways.