All language subtitles for 121 - Frost Nixon Feature Staging for Masters

I wanna simulate basically

not performance

although keep performing it

keep playing it as actors

cause I wanna lay out the shots

so I wanna stage for the camera

now if I was shooting

this would be on the shooting day

and I would have had a careful shot list

and things like that

which I haven't really done

because I want to experiment with several different

you know versions of

of the scene

but for now

we've kind of gotten the character movement working

and we're gonna start working with various shots

so Frost Nixon was sort of done in a

in a loose kind of naturalistic

sometimes handheld way

and my feeling about the scene then and now

is that there's a

kind of an energy to doing this scene handheld

so for my movie version then

and what I would sort of say

is our most ambitious version now

I would go for handheld

with a couple of other specific shots mixed in

I'm gonna do quite a bit of coverage for this scene

uh and we'll experiment with all of those

all of those ideas

so why don't we start with a camera back here wide

cause we're gonna sort of start with our masters

which resume 6:32

let's go with the 28

we should give you a good full figure here right

but because we do want movement

why don't we think about

as they settle in

why don't you just sort of drift in and over

maybe go with David from

where's your first stop here

so you kind of hold that as wide as you can

right and then just drift over with him

when he comes over here to this desk so you are

why don't you go

because there's

why don't you be wide

but kind of hide over here

stay out of the

a camera right

and just pin them in through the doorway

so that way you're not violating his space

you're in you know

in his shot

um but you can get this

and then when David Frost comes through

why don't you pull with him

and and you know

and then fall

falling over here as the others come

and when he turns back

you've got a kind of a medium whitish over the shoulder

okay so you'll be the second match

would you like me to stay camera left of him

yeah let's go this way

um like that

because that

that helps with the

the coverage

and a reverse shot later

and the other thing is that in

in you know

you never want in this kind of coverage

to be having to shoot straight into a wall

because it's very boring

so it's one of the cheapest things that you can do

to give a you know

to give any kind of staging some debt

some some scope

is to create depth in the staging

so you wanna use light

you wanna lose

use space and unless you're making a point of

you know somebody trapped or something like that

you know you never wanna get into a situation

where a person's coverage is

has to be jammed you know

straight back into a wall

just it just

it just looks terrible

so like when you go back over there

make sure you don't get too close to that wall

but also the coverage will be good

because we'll be raking along down this way

okay so let's just try it

so you're gonna be wide and you'll

you'll see when he cut

starts to come right

you pull with him when he goes here

you know I think we can do is as they start to go

is just come over

and we'll just see what we can get

you know maybe some sort of um

I think you're gonna kind of be dead at that point

but just just follow them out the door

you know just hold here

okay great so let's try that

let's walk through the scene

and we'll see what that looks like

I'm going to stop and go

to try to make some adjustments for the camera as we go

okay yeah you guys

you ready with your wide

so we're pretending this is the doorway to a grind fact

start back a little further because I'd like you to

I like to feel like you're actually

can see the

edges of the garage door and everything okay great

are we set good to go

yeah alright

yeah yeah and action

what revolution David

you just let Richard Nixon claim

the country was in a state of revolution

with protesters bombing and assaulting police officers

that that's not how I remember it

what I remember was people protesting

peacefully and legitimately against the Vietnam War

that's what I remember

music off please music off

hang on for a sec

so when he comes in here

don't press him quite so tight okay

so that you can come in to something like this

why dish but like that right okay

and that way

you'll be able to come over and cross over with him

let's just start it again from the top

see if we can fall

ease into that position sure

okay

and action what revolution David

you just let Richard Nixon claim

the country was in a state of revolution

with protesters bombing and assaulting police officers

that's not how I remember it

what I remember was people protesting

peacefully and legitimately against the Vietnam War

music off please

music off by the end

wire tapping students

and breaking into journalist homes

was beginning to sound like a rational response

and I'm sorry you feel this way

but I simply cannot share you with you

about what about any of it frankly

I thought today was a huge improvement

are you nuts

hang on one second

so when we do it we

so when he lands over here

which is a good move

you should be here

find that lens so that when you take that look

you know you're

you're not blocked

that's right

okay that's good

we carry on

so take it from there

where you just looked at him yeah

be out a little further

little further

if we were doing this

we'd Mark you

we're not right now so

okay I thought to do is a huge improvement

are you nuts

let me tell you how bad things were today

after the taping finished

I overheard 2 members of the crew say

they never voted for him when they had the chance

but if he ran again today

he'd have their support

you're making him look presidential

for Christ's sake

and forget about the trivia

David who cares whether Nixon took the White House bed

to Europe when he travelled

well it's irrelevant

and it's just a sort of

banal anecdote that would distract him

distract or what

go on and say it

you're about to say talk show host did find the winds

yeah good and staging I was

look it's useless me trying to answer your points

frankly I don't share any of your sense of

of pessimism or alarm

and this ridiculous self flagulation in my view

is just depressing

now let me stop one for one second

now if what lands you on there

you're on a 32

well that's pretty good

now let me just see if you can get Bert in also

she back track

track great

I think that's where we wanna actually land on this

if we were doing it

so let's just overlap it from where you come through

and just for the heck of it

let's just what

you'll come back to this spot

you'll guard it

and make sure he doesn't fall down and get hurt

great just from where you cross through

great

great

all right um

now let's get the a camera again

since we're doing a pickup

I would probably use this opportunity for you

just for you to

to get down low

get super wide

and let's just get that exit as they go walking out

okay and you still keeping the other camera out

so you're backing up a little bit

the outer frame

yeah yeah great

okay yeah good good

everybody clear

good action

I do well it's irrelevant

let's go back a little further since we've got this

this wide shot that I've just designed

just do that last part where you're from

walking over to him okay okay

yeah let's take it you just did it

let's take it from where you walk

where you cross over okay

was it beginning to sound like a rational response

yeah yeah okay

and action by the end

wire tapping students

and breaking into journalist homes

was beginning to sound like a rational response

I'm sorry you feel this way

I simply cannot share your view

about what about any of it frankly

I thought today was a huge improvement

hmm are you nuts

let me tell you how bad things were today

after the taping finished

I overheard 2 crew members say

they never voted for him when he had the chance

but if he ran for office again today

he get their support

you're making him look presidential

for Christ's sake

and forget about the trivia David

who cares whether Nixon took

the White House bed with him

I already traveled well let's

well it's irrelevant

okay let's take that turn again

you should chase him

be talking the whole way yeah

don't wait to get there so

so just take it from right right before I do okay

okay ready yeah

and action who cares whether Nixon took

the White House bed with him to Europe when he traveled

well it's irrelevant

and it's just a sort of banal anecdote

that would distract him

what

no go on you're about to say talk show host much

can you just come over a little bit that way

and so that has that

that open them up a little bit

so on the day if we were shooting

we'd be going for that right

look it's useless

me trying to answer your points frankly

I don't share any of your sense of pessimism or alarm

and this ridiculous self flagulation in my view

is just depressing

and threatening to derail a whole enterprise

if anyone of you thinks we are going to fail that

better leave now or to infect everyone else

now on

right good now

I suggest instead of festering around the hotel

for the next five days

we all go our separate ways over Easter

but before we go

Caroline and I would like you to join us for a little

celebratory dinner at Patrick Terrell's new place

celebrate celebrate what David

the fact that we're gonna be working out

Burger King I mean

what are we celebrating

my birthday oh

it's my birthday

and I'd like to celebrate it with a few friends

good

great now we're gonna do a little pickup

this is something that I would do on the day

because I don't need it for the whole scene

but let's just sit you on a box

so you're as low as you can be

and as wide as you can be

and let's just get that walking away moment

so you guys are left very lonely

okay you know

okay do you like me exiting the frame

yeah like you going with the following

be like yeah

I like that moment

and then you go with your friend

yeah so we'll just take it from

I'd like a few things you know

birthday with my

you know friends

yeah if you can she can get it a little lower

beautiful great

just for this point

gonna celebrate

how's that uh

sure cool great

yeah that's nice

okay here we go

it's just really for that moment just

just right before you go uh

it's my birthday

Bob okay ready

let's keep rolling

this is just to get a little lonely

moment in the alleyway and actions

my birthday Bob

I'd like to celebrate my birthday with a few friends

great that's very helpful okay great