Production in a Nutshell

I’ve always had a fascination with the way things are filmed. The magic, the finished product is never that even when being filmed. Everything comes together in the end. Despite this, the head writer and their writers can see the story with all the details incorporated in their head and manage to turn this abstract idea into something concrete. The main director also plays a huge part in carrying out this task as they create the vision for how it's shot. The camera work is essential to the cohesiveness and flow of the story. In novelas, there is always the trademark up close shots of the face of an actor and the back and forthness when there is a dramatic kind of revelation. The one that stands out to me is a clip from a novela where the mother walks in on her daughter kissing a boy, but somehow the mother also had a thing for the boy. I don’t even know the name of the novela, but maybe someone recognizes it. I know that’s sort of vague to be able to pinpoint the novela but the camera work on that scene is honestly kind of funny paired with the acting because it is an older novela. I think one of the most interesting parts is the way the storyboard is made such that scenes are able to be filmed out of order to be as efficient as possible. In class we talked about how certain public settings can only be rented out for so long; this is constricting on the team to make sure the mandatory things happening in this specific scene are successfully shot. On top of this, the actors might be faced with having to situated their character under different circumstances each time. Of course, this comes with the territory, but their skills are put to the test to execute the scenes the way the writer(s) envisions it. Something out of the hands of the production team when they film things out of order is nature which is a challenge in itself. Dialogistas is also a new term that I learned, and it is actually something that I didn’t know necessarily had its own lane per say. To be tasked with creating the verbal speech of scenes to narrate the story definitely takes understanding the head writer's vision on another level to be able to develop the meat of the script. There exists the controversial opinion of whether an actor should stay consistent with the exact script or should they be able to improvise on the spot. I’m not really sure how to feel about it because on one hand the dialogistas have the written what they think fits, but the actor has grown to know the character they are playing enough to be inside their minds. In class, we talked about how sometimes the actor will confide in the dialogista to discuss their choices, and this is probably the best outcome. The script is definitely someone who needs to have a good memory if not a strict routine on how they do things. Although it is something that speaks to me, I think my bad memory would not serve me well as a script. The issue with the mismatched nails when they had shot scenes at different times is something that inhibits a comprehensive plotline. This could only be caught by a few people, but in the end it matters as much as a larger mistake.