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374 AMATEUR MOVIE MAKING
we will break into the story with a first shot showing our fisherman picking up his rod and creel and starting out, the preliminary facts having been told in the title. We set up the tent and with branches we arrange a rustic washstand and towel rack with a mirror swung from the bole of a living tree. In the ashes near the fire we set a coffee pot and hanging on a trimmed bush nearby the frying pan and other cooking utensils common in camp life. Do not insert a lot of kit-chen furnishings such as double boilers, cake turners, baking pans, and so forth. The coffee pot is not a percolator, but a common, garden variety of tin coffee pot beloved of campers, the frying pan is of light pressed steel, and if the cook cannot "flap" a flap-jack the hungry fisherman will go hungrier for cake-turners are taboo in camp life ! In other words do not make your film absurd by the use of properties which would not be found in the same location in real life.
This completes the preliminary work, and you are now ready for action as soon as you have suitable light. It is better to shoot the fishing scene first as here you have the open sky above the water and the reflection from the water itself to help you in the early morning light — a light which cannot be successfully faked. Upon returning to the camp you will then, no doubt, have plenty of light to make both the first and last sequence of this simple three sequence playlet. Do not forget that reflectors are almost as important outdoors as the arcs are indoors.
So much for the naturalistic photo-play. The more conventional drama is somewhat more difficult to prepare. In many cases interior shots will be called for. In the old days and even in days not long past in amateur cinematography odd angles on the outside of buildings were used for "faking" interior shots, but in the case of the usual amateur such scenes might as well have been labelled "This scene is faked." There is but one place in which to make an interior shot and this is inside some building.
The Attic Studio. — An attic makes a wonderful stage, as it usually has many nooks and corners which are easily converted into anything from the dungeons to the parapet of a castle. The attic may be lined with light wallboard