Bonny & Clyde Production Journal

An improvised film maker’s production journal.

Wednesday, 6 September 2006

Cutaways, cutaways, cutaways

One of the big problems with improvised dialogue and to a lesser extent improvised blocking, is the amount of footage you need to shoot in order to get a good pool of dialogue to work with while editing. And in order to actually use all the dialogue you want for a particular scene, you need quite a lot of both cutaways and dialogue shot from varying angles.

With B&C, we’ll be shooting each scene several times to get both a backup shot and a large amount of dialogue for us to work with. We’ll then reshoot each scene from various camera angles, as well as a large collection of cutaways, which we can use to really tighten the final dialogue in the final edit.

What we make up for by not having a script, we lose in time to shoot, but its worth it.

posted by Richard BF at 4:41 am  

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