Importance of art direction

Set dressing and costume helps to create the mood in the film. For   a cinematographer also  set dressing and costume is very important.  What we see through the eye of lens is the performance of the actor and there surrounding/environment which can either bring the audience in or out of the movie.

The colour what we place in the set and the choose of colour for the costume can help to set the tone and the feeling to the particular scene. 

re think before pressing record and dont press stop.

Before recording its always good to recheck things.
Frame and whats in the frame.
Weather the things will surve the story or not.
What is the mood of the actor.

let the actor play after the scene also ...
dont say cut between the performance.
some times that post performance can be more useful.

Choosing possible camera angle.

Putting a camera and deciding an angle is one of the most important decision for a DOP.  Either it will help to convey the story or put the viewer out of the story. Every time I am shooting I try to thing weather this shot is cinematic or not if i am shooting for a film. who's scene it is. What genre of film it is.  Whats happening in the scene. What the director what to show in this scene. Whats the message. 

And example from lee's shoot.

This scene is about the andrews character. So having him in the foreground helps the audiences  eye to focus on him.  Second it brings depths on the scene. Plus the lights from windows make it more cinematic.

if i choose this angle then it will look like a cooking show. If i was shooting a cooking show then I will show this angle but for film its too flat.

location scooting for lee's film

I always prefer to in location with the director before the shoot dates. As it gives me more idea for the possible camera angle and lighting and then I discuss them with the director in the location and it makes the shooting time fast. As I already know where to put the camera and light. 

lighting and colour for my film

I a planning to divide the mood in two parts. The first part which is light and warm. I am planning to bring bright colour and warm lights with the use of tungsten light.

As seen in above stills from the films. We can notice the bright colour which bring our eyes into the character and bring comfort to eyes and the warm colour of tungsten lights... Which enhance the feeling of love.

For the second part of the films. I am planning to use blue light and light colour to highlight the loneliness of the characters. 

As we can see the use of blue colour and very unsaturated colours bring the loneliness and the sadness of the characters. 

small elements which appear in all romantic film

all romantic films have some small elements which can be seen in almost every film.

1. looking behind game = there will b a point in romantic film where the boy and the girl will b in different end of the road and they will look at each other but miss by few sec. and think the other person is not looking at them.

2. Season =  The rain and snow is one season seasons which appears in all films.

3. transport = they will be in a ride....bike , motorbike, boat, car , horse in a romantic drive.

4. kiss = All romantic kiss in the film specially at the end.

5. Entry = Slow mo entry of the actress.

6.  Jumping in water.

7. Lovely parents / rich vs poor parents.

8. Love songs playing when they hang out .... sad song during break up.

9. Party scene/ Dance scene.

10. Guy sing for the girl with guitar.
  

Research on romantic genre

I watched plenty of romantic film from around the world right from Hollywood hits Notebook(2004) to Korean film Always(2011).  I noted the main elements of all the film. So I can bring the same elements in my film.

1. Girl and boy are opposite nature.   Bad boy -good girl, Rich girl - Poor boy,  High fashion girl - simple boy.

2. They start with a fight and then fall in love.

3.  They are in same place but still not able to meet each other.

4. both have friends.... which only appears on screen for a while.