{"id":5949,"date":"2014-09-24T02:59:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2014-09-24T02:59:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T18:59:02","slug":"a-one-of-a-kind-marketplace-from-steven-soderbergh-extension-765","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/24\/a-one-of-a-kind-marketplace-from-steven-soderbergh-extension-765\/","title":{"rendered":"A one-of-a-kind marketplace from Steven Soderbergh. – Extension 765"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raiders
\nSEP 22, 2014
\n(Note: This posting is for educational purposes only.)
\nI\u2019m assuming the phrase \u201cstaging\u201d came out of the theatre world, but it\u2019s equally at home (and useful) in the movie world, since the term (roughly defined) refers to how all the various elements of a given scene or piece are aligned, arranged, and coordinated. In movies the role of editing adds something unique: the opportunity to extend and\/or expand a visual (or narrative) idea to the limits of one\u2019s imagination\u2014a crazy idea that works today is tomorrow\u2019s normal.
\nI value the ability to stage something well because when it\u2019s done well its pleasures are huge, and most people don\u2019t do it well, which indicates it must not be easy to master (it\u2019s frightening how many opportunities there are to do something wrong in a sequence or a group of scenes. Minefields EVERYWHERE. Fincher said it: there\u2019s potentially a hundred different ways to shoot something but at the end of the day there\u2019s really only two, and one of them is wrong). Of course understanding story, character, and performance are crucial to directing well, but I operate under the theory a movie should work with the sound off, and under that theory, staging becomes paramount (the adjective, not the studio. although their logo DOES appear on the front of this\u2026).
\nSo I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging, how the shots are built and laid out, what the rules of movement are, what the cutting patterns are. See if you can reproduce the thought process that resulted in these choices by asking yourself: why was each shot\u2014whether short or long\u2014held for that exact length of time and placed in that order? Sounds like fun, right? It actually is. To me. Oh, and I\u2019ve removed all sound and color from the film, apart from a score designed to aid you in your quest to just study the visual staging aspect. Wait, WHAT? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS? Well, I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m like, ALLOWED to do this, I\u2019m just saying this is what I do when I try to learn about staging, and this filmmaker forgot more about staging by the time he made his first feature than I know to this day (for example, no matter how fast the cuts come, you always know exactly where you are\u2014that\u2019s high level visual math shit).
\nAt some point you will say to yourself or someone THIS LOOKS AMAZING IN BLACK AND WHITE and it\u2019s because Douglas Slocombe shot THE LAVENDAR HILL MOB and the THE SERVANT and his stark, high-contrast lighting style was eye-popping regardless of medium.
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Raiders SEP 22, 2014 (Note: This posting is for educational purposes only.) I\u2019m assuming the phrase \u201cstaging\u201d came out of the theatre world, but it\u2019s equally at home (and useful) in the movie world, since the term (roughly defined) refers to how all the various elements of a given scene or piece are aligned, arranged, … <\/p>\n

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