Individual role and continuity technic

Feel very fast, it is already half way of semester, wow, it means needed to be more focus in all assignments. Felt anxious, exhausted and bit depress. Toula explained us about our project documentation, which is due in week 10. As she said, the research material it will be individual work, even the project documentation is group works, but for research material and treatment all of group members need to make their own. This is very good, I think Toula wanted that everyone in the group to being active and improve their knowledge about their research material and writing. I really like her idea for this, even it was bit confusing for the first time, and now it is become clearer.
Also, Ellen asked Toula, do we really need to use story board, and Toula asked all the students in the class, what the thought of this. David gave us good explanation, story board will be useful if it’s represent narrative story also to visual action from the movie. Through this explanation our group understood, that if we need to use storyboard or not.
Finished the discussion for Project documentation, Toula gave us an example of treatment called “Gulpill”, Directed by Darlene Johnson

What is treatment and is it different with script?
Yes it is different, in the script it is include the actress or actor words of what they are said in the movie, but in the treatment is not. Treatment is use for being able to communicate with audience and how to find the key idea. This is explanation is very useful for our project documentation and being able to more understand of the differences.
In the class we were studying about Production phase and divided into 3 important things:
1. Producer (being them need to book the equipment, cast crew, catering, also they need to make shooting schedule, call sheet and budget0 Producer is a key for every production.
2. Camera operator : Responsible of technical proficiency, PV equipment+ check everything operational ( Battery), visual style/ Framing , storyboard/image file, sound records/ boom swinger, good audio levels and measurement.
3. Director: Responsible for actors/ rehearsal, interviews/ questions.
4. Editor: Responsible for log rushes, which means deciding one is the best take from the director.
I understood why this was important for us, it seems that all of us still confused of individual role for our production, through this explanation, we can start divide members role:
Kathy:Producer
Fan Li: Researcher
Ripina: Director / writer
Karina: Camera women/ editor
Another useful lesson is about Continuity, so what is continuity?
It is about logical flow of ideas, and consistence action, performance, wardrobe, lighting, sound and framing. Toula gave us reading about organizing cinematic Time and Space from “Voice and Vision” book. In this reading it said, how continuity system has been devised in order to present a scene without any confusion about the spatial and temporal relationships of people, objects and actions. Toula not just gave us the reading about continuity, but she also showed us 2 different movies, First movie is “Silent (at land) “directed by: Maya Deren in 1944. This movie got element of reality, even is not that obvious. It is showed of the continuity performance when she was crawling in the bush but same in the table, also when the men was change but her eye direction still in consistent way. Second movie is about the rule of Dogma movie : “The Five Obstruction”. Honestly i don’t really like this movie, not because of the story, but because of the continuity of camera in faster and slow direction, this is just made my eyes pain, but it was interesting movie. Because they follow the rule of dogma, so they didn’t editing their movie and it is still looks good
Looking through from the reading and movie, it is just make me clearer of the continuity in the movie production, and can imagine how difficult to give continuity of performance.

by: Kathy