When it comes to filming, each reality can be approached from a different strategy. And each film can approach reality in a more or less literal way. The filmmaker’s preparation for the shooting, including planning, staging or possible interviews, may be exhaustive or flexible, calculated or leaving an almost unavoidable margin for improvisation. Thinking about the shooting from the director’s point of view is not simply an individual exercise, but always involves a continuous conversation with the team, which will turn the film into a collective exercise.
Profiles Cinematography Directing Sound
Filming the Unexpected: Strategies
- How do you approach the shooting of your film? How important is the team around you? How do you usually film, and what strategies do you use in your documentary practice?
- How do you film action?
- How do you approach dialogues, conversations, or interviews?
- How do you film the unexpected or something unforeseen?
- Can you provide examples from your documentary practice?
Fictionalizing Reality: Strategies
- How much planning and/or staging is involved in what you film?
- Do you combine capturing the unexpected with an idea of fictionalization?
- How do you fictionalize to creatively represent reality?
- Can you give an example or case of the fiction strategies you use?
From Person to Character: the mise-en-scène
- How do you portray a character(s) with the camera?
- How do you define their spaces cinematographically?
- How much room for intervention do you allow the people appearing in your films?
