07.25.08
For Film Director Kely McClung, Filmmaking and Storytelling still comes down to Content
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:45 pm by mcclung_1
Reading and studying and trying to absord the massive amount of info available on each and every camera and each and every situation, it’s easy to forget about content.
After content, it’s easy to forget about the basics; that the camera only sees a part of what we point it at. It’s value and values are still made up of light and shadow, expressed through composition and angle, rendered with focus or the lack of with digitally interpolated color and luminance.
After acquisition, it’s easy to forget about the value and effort of editing and post. We get lost in the semantics of PC vs. Mac, Intel vs. AMD, and then the myriad debates on editing and finishing systems with more effort than in the understanding of the cut; the when and why’s, the intricities of montage and rythm, of the emotional impact of our choices for juztoposition, continuity edits, jumps cuts, fades and dissolves.
Whether weddings or birthdays, corporate and industrial, music video and training tapes, shorts or feature films… it still comes down to content.
Kely McClung - back to filmmaking…