The cinema as a graphic art : on a theory of representation in the cinema (1959)

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METHODS OF WORKING OUT THE SCENARIO Fig. 63. — Compositional sketches for the film " Chapayev ". A general list of auxiliary technical attachments and lighting apparatus lould be attached to the production scenario. The list of lighting apparatus is •awn up for the purpose of guidance, and takes as its starting-point the lighting |heme for the long-shots based on the models of the sets. The lighting list lust be worked out in detail before each object is shot. The production scenario also includes the camera-man's general technical oservations on the shooting of individual objects. The technical treatments of parate shots are produced only after the camera-man has informed himself in itail on the conditions of shooting in the given exterior or on the actual set. If the question of composite photographing 1 arises in the course of work 1 the film, the production scenario should include an exact plan for carrying out ie given composite shot, with all the calculations, including scale, etc. Such are the camera-man's main requirements in the course of working out ie production scenario. We have deliberately omitted the question of working it the technical questions in detail for each separate shot, as it is not possible \ include material of this kind in the production scenario. The compositional ;heme always serves as an exhaustive criterion of the correctness of the cameraman's conception of his representational tasks. As for the technical methods of 1 alising the given compositional scheme, in the great majority of cases this task in be resolved only after detailed acquaintance with the immediate conditions f; shooting on the spot. This way of stating the case, however, by no means aplies that it is impossible to work out the technical treatment of the comositional scheme in a preliminary form. On the contrary, if the shooting pro>ss is to be carried out rationally a preliminary technical treatment must be rawn up. But the conditions in which it has to be put into effect dictate a ? mewhat different form of scenario fixation from that required in order to put ie production scenario into effect. We must consider this question in more fetail. The technical methods of carrying out the compositional schemes of a shot volve decision on the following technical factors : 1 Super-imposition, lap dissolve (mix), etc. — Ed. 127