So this blog of mine that i am meant to keep up to date for class had kind of come to a screaming halt. BUT IM BACK. HEIL TO THE KING BABY!!! Or some other cult reference. Either way this could be a long one. I think it might have been a month, maybe more. Either way in recent weeks we have been covering script breakdowns, unit action, scene action, unit objective and so forth and on and on. But now were getting to the stuff that i can really get a grasp on and get stuck into a little more easily as it relates to camera a little more. I'm talking SUBJECTIVE and OBJECTIVE camera. So the way i have come to understand it is like this:
SUBJECTIVE- is where we are looking at someone either with a close up (C/U) showing emotion or through the eyes of someone as a point of view (POV). You can only have one person in frame for it to be subjective, and we can't see many objects unless we are looking through their eyes to see what they are seeing. In the simplest way that i can put it into reading words without actually showing an example is EG. CU of John, POV john looks at his watch, CU of john thinking about what hes looking at or moving on to what hes doing next. As a rule we must cut back to the character to avoid confusion of whos POV it is. Or it becomes hard to distinguish if it is subjective or objective.
OBJECTIVE - is basically as if someone is watching from a 3rd person POV. It means that if two people are in the frame it is objective. This becomes a little confusing because some people might be like " oi Trav ya bastard, but what about dirty two shots, they show emotion when people are talking to each other?" Well don;t reach for the baseball bat yet my friends, this is objective because we see the shoulder/hair of the 2nd person. So therefore its as if the audience is a 3rd person looking on. If you are following someone from behind or looking at them from the front and their head is out of frame, this is Objective also. In my opinion its basically just don't show CU of the face or POV shots.
For Chris's class we have been asked to shoot a short scene that has been handed out in either subjective or objective ONLY. I have chosen to do mine in an objective manner.
So without further ramblings, boring antics and a pointless quote.
Here it is, please let us know what ya think. And more importantly, have i done it right?
Dir/Edit - Travis Davis
Dop - Sean Holyoake
