Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby,
That was a great highlight reel you posted this morning. The Dreamhouse stuff came out exceptionally well. I am assuming it was shot live because you went on tour with them, but the quality is so good it almost looks "studio". Great stuff! Are you gonna or have you already put together a video for them? Well anyway, you have a wide variety of good looking shots on that reel, including the backlit leaves on the tree (seen for just a few seconds) that looks like it was shot at night. Your camera motion is smooth as always. Very high quality shots, all around. Just keep thinking creatively, as in the way you thought up the bowl coming straight at the camera when the guy sweeps it off the table. That was a fantastic shot.
Above all, continue to maintain and refine the combined rhythm in your camera movement and editing. You are a natural at visual rhythm, and you will continue to refine it. I can't think of the technical term for maintaining visual continuity and flow of movement as the eye perceives it (it's probably a French term), but there is a science to it, and it is formatted. I am sure you learned this in school, all the POV stuff, etc. But just keep studying it and nailing shot after shot, edit after edit. Match each shot, camera position, edit and "mis en scene" (meaning arrangement of things and shapes in the camera frame, in still photography "composition"), and fit each one perfectly into the next, like clockwork.
You are well on your way to doing all of this. Just study what you have already done, and go from there.
I am all fired up about camera shots and cinema in general because we saw "The Devil, Probably" at CSUN tonight. I already wrote about this film last week, and this is my second time seeing it in a week but my first on the big screen, and it is nothing less than another Total Masterpiece by Robert Bresson.
SB, you might have to stop me here. I am gonna try extra hard not to go off on another Bresson Tirade.......
(trying........trying........trying really hard......trying to refocus thoughts.....)
Okay! I made it! :)
I did not go off on my Umpteenth Bresson Tirade, but I've still gotta say "My Goodness, Mr. Bresson. How can you make One Incredible Film After Another"?
And since he is no longer with us, having passed away in 1999 at 98 years of age, I will answer for him and say that a lot of his creative success lies in his attention to precision.
He has his actors read their lines exactly how he wants them read.
He has their physical movements (head tilts, the way they walk, the way they stand up - everything!) exactly the way he wants them.
He has his editing and mis en scene (just call it composition) perfectly connected to one another, so that everything fits, from edit to edit, with perfect balance.
He pays so much attention to detail that the movie comes off as "all-of-a-piece" : a Whole created out of precise and specifically chosen, specifically instructed parts.
I think I said this before, a while back, but the more you go forward and the greater your resume, make sure that your vision for a client's video is the one that is desired by the client. The more respect you accrue as a director, the more you should expect a client to say, "we want Elizabeth", because of your prowess as a director. Of course a band should always have input in a video they are paying for. That goes without saying. But they are hiring you for your vision and style, and the more you take charge in that regard, the greater your profile will grow.
You have a flowing visual style that looks fantastic. Just keep studying it, and see what you wanna do next.
That's all I know for tonight. I Love You and will see you in the morning.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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