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The Best Film Sets Are Free
UHPHE TAJ MAHAL and Queen Elizabeth's jewels." A Hollywood A script, perhaps, might call for such a set. But anyone who cannot afford even a single diamond-encrusted camera just has to do without— or use the sets that nature and human architecture have prepared and placed at his disposal. Fortunately, there are lots of good locations just waiting to be exploited. Screen writers, sometimes, start to work on a story with a list of available sets. They have to use as many of the existing sets as they can when budget counts. It is worthwhile taking an inventory of available sets. They are so obvious, that they often are ignored.
When filming a story, or even just a family newsreel, greater scope and variety can be injected by taking the action away from our own front yard, and into other homes, parks, forests, highways and public places.
The playgrounds are there. Yet, how often do we utilize the swings, slides, sandboxes and other devices that seem made to order for filming?
Skating ponds, ski and toboggan slides and other winter settings are wonderful to shootespecially if the filmer wears mittens!
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Give your town a screen test. Explore with a camera the way cine scouts do in planning professional productions. Test the photogenic qualities of various places at home and
afar — places worth returning to. Collecting with your camera is fun, too. Trains, churches and people waving are just a few of the subjects which confirmed collectors go for.
The success of Hollywood Westerns is due in no small part to the photogenic qualities of the horse. It's easy to put pictorial eye-appeal into our own films. The first step is to ex
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plore— even if it's only with a still camera. With our own pictures on file, we can decide where to shoot specific scenes— where background and sunlight will cooperate with camera.
Make movies that move. "Sunday at Home" might start with a scene of the family mansion, carefully framed in the viewfinder. Count up to six and with camera continuing to run, let
the visitors walk into the scene. Then move camera up for a medium shot at the door. Finally, round out this little sequence, with a closeup of hostess welcoming each visitor, one by one.
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