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In other words try to get them to disregard the camera, tell them to do anything they please except "look at the birdie."
If the action is continuous or progressive, such as taking successive scenes of the same person covering more ground than can be taken from your first camera location, one of the chief points to remember is to have your character enter each scene from the same direction. Don't make the mistake which sometimes happens, even in professional studio photography, of letting a character apparently meet himself, but if in the first scene he enters from the left, 1(4 him do the same in the next. And if your character is moving out of your scene, 1(4 him go completely out. Otherwise, unless you can handle it with a fade, you'll have an awkward jump.
Trying to get your characters to do something rather than pose and look at the camera will be worth your thinking up the action before setting out to make the picture. Instead of having the gang at the picnic, for instance, lined up in a row to be shot, try to catch them at their meal or at whatever they are doing, more or less in the same manner as the so-called "candid cameras" which are now being used very extensively to take photographs at court-room trials, at banquets and other places where an attempt is made to catch natural expressions, with the subject being unconscious of the presence of the camera. It isn't exactly necessary to take all of your group movies by sneaking op unawares on your characters. That will not always be possible, or even desirable; but you will be able to coach them into going through with the game or the stunt or whatever you want to catch in a natural manner.
It will helj) if ,V()U have already made up your mind where you are going to stand, and if you are all ready to shoot. Then you will be in a position to tell your folks to go ahead with what they are doing while you are getting set — and when they do, grab your scene.
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