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Film planning is easy, says this picture making parent, if you look at life through children's eyes
VICTOR ANCON A, ACL
(F \0U are among the legion of family Miners who look askance at even the idea of film planning — let me assure you that you're whistling in the dark, shying at shadows and barking up the wrong tree! Xot to mangle any more metaphors, film planning is really a cinch. In the winged words of the advertising copy writers — "Even a child can do it!" And. as a matter of fact, a child does do it. easilv and all the time. It's all in how you look at life. The child looks at it simply, in terms of the specific physical objects and actions which he sees before him. And. when he writes about it. that's the way his writing comes out — in pictures'. Let me show you what I mean. Remember the days when teacher used to give us a title for our compositions — like My Vacation, My Hobbies or. say. My Brother's Birthday? A nine year old would tackle the latter subject something like this.
Sunday was my brothers birthday. He was one year old. My cousin Jane came to the party. We all sat at the table. My Mother brought a cake to the table and put it in front of Bobby. It had one candle on it. My Mother lit the candle and we all watched it glow. Then Daddy blew out the candle because Bobby is too small.
My Mother took the candle off and put the cake on Bobby's high chair. Bobby w-as laughing so much. \^ e all had fun. Bobby then put his fingers right in the cake and stuck the chocolate in his mouth. Soon his face was all chocolate.
Mother then took the cake away and cut it up for us. We each had a BIG piece. Yum-m-m-m, it was good ! Daddy was too busy to eat because he was taking movies of us. I bought a present for Bobbys birthday. I gave it to him and he threw it on the floor. Mother said he was tired. She put Bobby to bed. We all had a good time.
Now, if we were to translate this child's composition into film, we d have a good movie. As a matter of fact, if we planned each film that we take as pictorially as that composition, we couldn't go wrong. Let's start shooting, sentence by sentence:
First, the lead title, My Brother's Birthday, can be changed a little. Let's make it Bobby s First Birthday. This identifies the brother and also establishes the fact that he is one year old. To film the title, how about using a child's wooden block letters arranged around a birthday cake? Then fade out the lead title to the first sentence.
Sunday was my brother's birthday. This is not to be a subtitle in your film, you understand: use it only as a guide to telling the story in pictures. Something like this, say : A medium shot of Brother I the storyteller I and his mother. He points to a calendar on the wall. Closeup of calendar, with Brother's finger pointing to Sunday. January 18. Semi-closeup of the [Continued on page 29]
"My Mother lit the candle and
we all watched it glow . .
'Soon Bobby's face
was all chocolate
"J bought a present
for Bobby's birthday . . ."
THE FAMILY FILM
"Daddy was too busy to eat because he ivas taking movies of us.'