There are so many things that go into production as we have learned in class: lighting, positioning, sound, makeup, costume design, cameras, temperature, etc. All of these things can easily go unseen and unthought of when you sit down to watch the final product. But behind the scenes, an unbelievable amount of effort, time and money goes into it. We the consumers only experience a small piece of the real show. Watching behind the scenes cuts and interviews has always intrigued me for that reason. I kept wanting to ask: what went into that shot? Why did they choose to put that person over there? How many times did they have to redo this scene? Did the actress do that on her own or was that a part of the script? Are they actually in love in real life, because there's no way they can act out that scene so well?! (That one was from my mother who has recently been watching with me... thanks Corona haha)
For La Reina del Sur, they do a lot of on-site filming instead of in the studio, adding a lot to the production value. When I was actually able to think about the production, I noticed camera angles and lighting the most. Yet, still I would catch myself forgetting about so many other things we discussed in class, it was overwhelming. Dr. A was absolutely right about the fact that once she exposed us to certain things, we would never be able to get them out of our heads. Specifically in the love scenes, like the one we watched in class with the man on the latter, and about how the director was so specific on how the man took off his shirt and where the woman dropped hers... It must truly be a nightmare to be on set for those 15, 16, 17+ hour days.
Not only is production important to create something good, but it's something that is high stakes. The saying "everyone is a critic" would really keep me up at night if I were on the production team because one small mistake and it's almost a guarantee that at least one, if not more, of the millions of viewers of the program will notice. I find it interesting to think about what viewers are paying attention to while watching. For me personally, even when I was trying to think about the production, I would still just get lost and have to refocus my brain. There must be a tough dichotomy there between putting in the effort and the funding into an incredible production versus maybe letting the production lack a little in certain scenes because you expect no one to notice. At the end of the day, this sums up how I would feel working in production:
I think you have a point that we, as a general audience, don't really notice production unless it is bad. This happens to me a lot in sports, especially. I never think about when a production team gave me a great shot of the field, goal, touchdown, etc. I only notice when they didn't follow the ball or provided a weird angle. You're right that it would be really hard being on a production team and putting so much work into every detail and then only receiving negative feedback or none at all. I like that you thought about it from the perspective of the production team.
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy how much I can't stop looking at scenes for production techniques after taking this class. All I do is think about music, the transitions, the staging and the settings of each scene. I'm constantly wondering how long it took to build each set and why they decided on some details. And even more mind blowing is the actors and how much content they're memorizing and performing because these episodes are an hour long and come on multiple times a week. It's not as simple as filming a 2 hour movie with months to edit. The production team has to be ON POINT at all times, and honestly the thought of working on one really stresses me out.
ReplyDeleteMy boyfriend does a lot of work on videos for his own business as well as for a few local business and so much work goes into the production of these. For smaller 15-20 minute long videos, literally hours of post production is spent. Mixing and cutting audio, piecing together different clips to make a coherent scene with accurate continuity, and working on different custom animations for the video, can take an entire day to do. Not to mention how tedious this process is and can be. I cannot imagine how difficult and how much time goes into the production of a large scale project.
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