Andy Collins
“DIALOGUE TURNS GOOD PEOPLE into bad actors,” says my colleague and DP Richard Chisolm. I agree. In the many scenarios I have produced, getting real people to handle dialogue realistically is always the biggest challenge. The other challenge is getting proper coverage of critical action. This usually involves some level of “re-enactment.” So, the camera person may need to interrupt a moment to ask, “Can you bring your hand in toward the phone a little slower?” Sometimes it will be the sound person: “A truck went by and I didn’t quite hear what you said, could you tell him that last part again?” In ...
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