What makes a scene works? Preparation or pure luck? In a typical movie production set, there is the whole crew which includes the producer ‘quite often’ and its team, director, assistant director, production assistant, script director, stunt coordinator, art director, set designer, prop master, set dresser and many more just to name a few. Another 2 very important key person to mention in creating a scene to remember of course is the Key Scenic and Greensman. With this, another movie is set to become the next blockbuster.
Well, coming back to real life where most if not all these works and coordination works are carried out by none other than your faithful photographer. In malaysia sometimes, its called ‘Hey Cameraman’. gosh…
The most we have is a make-up artist that carries a whole set of portable make-up kit plus lots and lots of tissues (2 ply) and if budget allows 1 more additional photographer’s assistant aka ‘Ah Chong’. So the pressure is really HIGH to produce a master piece to say the least. Lets face it, the shoot is normally scheduled for 3 days and most maybe 5 days, also with the ever changing climate system it is really not easy to predict it. If Apollo (God of the Sun) is shining upon you, blue skies, white clouds, colorful sunsets are almost guaranteed but otherwise grey all the way.
So as a photographer or Photo Artist, we have to determine the right time, right place, and the right everything to make the shot. We are the sole whole crew which has to plan and do everything from A to Z and hopefully our faithful star-actor and actress aka the couple can play their role with minimal NG.
The result – A scene to remember. Years later, you can still take out your album from the closet or underneath the bed, brush off the dust, browse through the photos, taking yourself down memory lane, remembering the shoot, feeling the atmosphere, the laughs, the sweats, the breeze, the smell, the shouting blah blah blah…
Now is that worth??
