Rickesh Gurung
final major project
E&R ON RESEARCH
Over the year i have done a lot of research ranging from How-tos to watching similar videos on YouTube to what i'm making as well as watching Hollywood movies.
Analysing and learning from people who make similar content as me on YouTube was really helpful and important for me as these content creators are the best of the best in their game. Therefore, learning from them would make sense. I gathered a lot of helpful information from tips and tricks to actually applying gathered knowledge into the practical side of things.
Watching one movie every night was also part of my research. I watched these movie leisurely as well as to analysis how every shot is shot how that shot moves the story forward. I once received a great tip from Martin Scorsese in his free MasterClass lesson, he said "if you remove a shot from you movie and it doesn't impact or change your story then you shouldn't have that shot in there". This basically means that every shot should propel the story forward that means something to the movie as a whole. I took his quote and applied it into my FMP, so that every shot in my FMP does something in order to progress the story forward.
As much as it is tempting to watch all the modern popular movies, what i should've done was to watch one to two movies from each top directors. This way i can identify each director's unique taste and how each director's skills and technique differs.
This would've helped me create/obtain my own unique style in filmmaking that would be visible in all my projects.
The lighting aspect of my FMP could have been heavily improved by watching more Behind The Scenes of big movie production. Even tho i couldn't afford all the top lighting gears they used however i could learn and understood all the lighting principals used and why they chose that way to light their subjects as well as looking at the final results.
This was my first time properly making use of lighting in night time situations as most of my time i would avoid shooting at night time and i would make use of the natural light to film my shots. Therefore i still had to look up tutorials and learn the fundamentals of lighting as i was still a beginner in this field.
One way to actually improve that i should've done was to leave some extra time for me to experiment and play around with the lighting gear and understand the basics before jumping straight into the main production. This could've saved me tons of time and energy in the actual movie shoot as i would already know how the shot with look if i placed the light here and there and so on.