LIGHTING AND LENSING WORKSHOP DAY 14

Jubraraj shoot-

The camera was set up, the boom was plucked in, the room was props up, the light was lit up for the shoot but we couldn't able to start as the Director and the male actor (Sir) were not present in the set. We waited for them to come. Meanwhile, Hindol was white balancing the camera and some of us were singing and listening to the music. We starts shooting at around 11. 15 in the morning and ends at 6.00 in the evening. We takes six shots.

• Crew’s member-
  
  
  Director –Jubaraj, Cinematographer – Ashok Veilou  Assistant Cinematographer- Sumana, Actors- Kirti and Tanmay ,  Sound – Soumee Props- Himel, Assistant Director-Hindol Deb.

Before the first shot was taken, Jubraraj came to me and say " YOU KNOW THE SHOT"? I said which one like yesterday shot? He replied its was completely different from yesterday.  He continues saying -  I want to create foreground, mid- ground  and background in the shot. He explains to me the shot. The girl in foreground and the man in background. I set the frame and we are ready for the roll. He gave Hindol in charge to calls for the shot. We take the shot but Jubraraj seems to be not very convincing with the actor. He wanted to go for another take.  Jubraraj wants static frame though i like to pan the camera as the character moves. As Sir listens to our conversation he approached me and said what do you want? I explains to him what i want and he tells me  to do what i want.  I took the shot. Still, the director wants another shot,he wanted to go for another shot. Seems like the actors are not performing like the way he plan the actions to flow.  Sir also tells him not to be very limits to what he visualise the shot.
 What i learnt from it- The director should have presence of mind to accept and feel what the actors are feeling instead than simply sticking to the plan he has made. 

The actors does a wonderful job. Sir Tanmay shows us how really the actors can pulls director legs. It was a great experienced to be a cinematographer in this type of shoot.

We view our footage in the CRT after we were done with the shoot. There are some shot which the image are not too sharp, so the director asks me what happened? I do not say anything. But the fact was, as we lit the shot in a very low light condition , it was a bit difficult for me to see clearly.
2. When i ask Hindol about the focus, he told me not to do the focus as the aperture is at f- 11 in P2 Camera. He says everything will be in focus when an aperture is  at f-11. As he say so, i follow his instructions and the result is seen after we viewed in CRT on a big screen. The result is- Though we set in f- 11 the image will be blurred. The wise idea is always better to take any shot in focus in order to get a good result.

I shared this experience with the director and we had a good laugh. Director was happy after seeing all his performance from the actors.