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And now I'd
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like to talk to you about character
and point of view.
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Who are the characters?
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What are their motivations?
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What are they trying to accomplish?
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Whose eyes are
we seeing the world through?
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And why do we care?
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Why are we emotionally invested?
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I always think about the character,
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and in the case of something
like Whiplash,
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I always think about Andrew,
how can I cut it
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in a way to
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get into that character's head?
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And so that's how I approach things.
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So in terms of cutting silently,
I, I like things to play
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almost like a silent,
the way a silent movie would play.
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Sound is going to enhance it.
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Sounds going to absolutely be a key
ingredient.
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First man is so much more powerful
with the sound,
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but I really try and like to have it
play with the images
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because again, I believe that
if you have something play pictorially,
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you can appeal to people in China
and you can appeal to people in America.
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You can appeal to a wider
possible audience.
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And so I always like to favor the pictorial instead of hearing a character say.
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Oh, no, there's a gun.
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I like to present that visually.
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I'd rather have a character
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see that and show that to the audience
and then see a reaction.
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And then here I'll know
that character's gun.
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Rather than merely be told
that when I'm cutting things
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silently, I look for things
that will tell my story through pictures.
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And often again,
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that has to do with the character's face
and that has to do with looks.
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There are exceptions to this rules
because people have different
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storytelling styles and techniques.
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A lot of direct.
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They're not a lot, but there are a lot of
directors that that favor long tableaus,
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that favor the theatrical
theatricality of composition,
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and that can be amazing, beautiful
and moving as well.
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But in general, I favor
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I think about how powerful the eyes are
and the gaze.
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I think about the movies
of Alfred Hitchcock, which are all about
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seeing
and being seen in some of his movies.
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Key moments are about being seen
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in Alfred Hitchcock's
classic movie, Psycho.
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When the killer is
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spying on a woman
undressing about to get in the shower,
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he takes a picture off a wall
that reveals a hole in the wall
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so that he can peek in and look at this
woman undressing to go in the shower.
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We show his eyes looking
and then we see what he's looking at.
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That's very potent.
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That's very powerful
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because the audience sees
what exactly what the character sees.
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And you have a direct connection
to that character's
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experience
that has an enormous amount of power.
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In his movie Rear Window.
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The movie
about a man who watches his neighbors
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through his windows
in the back of his apartment.
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He sees all these little
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stories play out in different apartments
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until he sees a neighbor
and realizes that the neighbor
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has probably killed his wife,
he spies on the killer.
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And the key moment,
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a pivotal moment in that story is
when after an hour
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and a half of this character
spying on the killer and us being us
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spying as well, that killer figures out
that he's being watched.
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And we see the killer then
turn to the camera, look at the camera,
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and then basically we instantly are afraid
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because we know that that killer
is not only looking at the character,
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that that the killer
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is looking at us, the audience,
and that has an enormous amount of power.
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And so I always look for things
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that direct the audience in that way.
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I look for moments
that where I can, I can.
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Get into the character either through
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through literal subjective photography
or if that doesn't exist,
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because sometimes you don't shoot that way
through the face.
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And again, it's the face.
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The face tells you so much.
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The eyes in particular tell you so much.
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So there's. It's such a powerful tool.
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I don't feel like I can.
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I can.
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Overstated.
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Any scene with a lot of characters
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is challenging
because you have to cut to them
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to keep their characters alive, you know,
unless you're trying to make a point of
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of withholding them
so that you can reveal something.
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For the most part, it's challenging
because you have to keep them alive.
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You have to keep cutting to them
to check in with them.
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There are challenges
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with geography, with looks in this person
looking this way, in that way.
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We had that with the dinner
table scene in Whiplash.
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The way it was shot, it was shot.
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Great.
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But we always had to try to be careful
about the geography
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around the table,
because there's a way that
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if you cut it with certain angles,
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then one shot
doesn't lead to the other shot.
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This look, you know, doesn't match
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with your other great expression
because the screen direction is wrong.
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And and so it can be hard.
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But I would say that
you have to read your reread your scene.
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Think about your story and think about.
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Who's seen it is what is you?
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Is there is there a main character?
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Is there is there a point of view
that you want to get across?
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You know,
the way the scene begins, the way it ends.
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What's the what's the change in the scene?
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Is there is there something in the scene?
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The changes, for example, in the whiplash
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dinner scene in that scene,
the beginning of the scene
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starts at a
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somewhat happy place
where the is getting together and
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everyone is going around the table
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talking
about all of their accomplishments.
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There's the football star.
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There's there's
there's the dad with his writing.
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And then there's Andrew with drumming.
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And you start to see
as the season progresses that the person
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who changes is Andrew from the beginning
of the scene, he's open.
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He's open
and willing to have a conversation.
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He's trying to be included.
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He's actually trying
to impress his family.
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He's trying to find his place in a way.
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He's saying, actually,
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you know, I've been chosen for this band
and that has meaning to me.
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He's trying to share that.
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His family is not hearing that.
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They're not understanding him.
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And by the end of the scene,
Andrew's character
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is frustrated and angry
because his family does not hear him.
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And they don't they don't appreciate
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what he's saying.
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And so the person who's changing
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is Andrew. It's not the family members.
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They don't really change
the way they react, but it's really.
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Andrew.
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So that tells you a character
that you probably
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want to focus on and you're going
to want to focus on his face.
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You're going to look for those pieces
of the performance
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that show you the progression
from beginning to end.
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And so I think you have to
look at your story,
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look at your scene and ask yourself
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what is how does is that what's the change
from the beginning to the end?
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Is there any?
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And if there is, who is it
that's changing?
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That's the person you want to focus on.
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And if it's two characters,
an interaction, my suggestion would be to
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to edit
the scene with only those characters.
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First, focus on that,
try that, get that interaction.
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If this is what it is,
get that interaction, the looks
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and the best performance pieces
that tell that story and then go back
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and look for how you can incorporate
the other people into the scene.
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So you're using you're
looking for something to use as the spine
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of your scene and everything else
can can be hung on top of that spine.
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