NEWS

By Charlie Karumi

It’s a beautiful Tuesday, perfect day for another instalment of #teknikoTuesdays. Whether you want to randomly impress friends at the bar with your know-how, or you’re interested in joining the film business or just a ‘kawaida’ film enthusiast, #teknikoTuesdays is a super fun way of learning the meaning of all that complex film jargon that you hear getting thrown around everywhere.

This week, we feature the letter C. C for cool… which is exactly what you’re going to be when you learn the true meaning of these terms:

a) Call sheet- a ‘set time table’. It’s a document that lists all the scenes to be filmed for that particular day, all the cast and crew required for the shoot plus extra information for example the equipment required, locations, weather forecasts and times. It is usually drafted by the ADs department.

b) Close up- a close up (or CU for short) is a type of shot, which tightly frames a person or an object. Its one of the standard shots used regularly in film with medium shots and long shots.

c) Continuity- Saving the complicated one for last is our technique, and so we wrap up with the definition of continuity.

Filming a single scene usually involves playing out all the action of a scene multiple times in order to get all the required shots and camera angles, especially so when shooting with a single camera. Lets take for example Jane and Abel. If one scene involves Jane talking to her son Tony in her office, the actors will perform the scene at least once for a wide shot, another time for Jane’s close up/ medium shot and once more for Tony’s CU/medium shot.

The role of the continuity supervisor is to make sure that the actors do everything in one shot exactly the same way they did in the others. So that if Jane slaps Tony with her left hand in the wide shot, she won’t slap him with her right in her close up et cetera.

That’s all for today, check back in next week for more #teknikoTuesdays as we move on to the Dees.

Have a filmy week!