According to the guys in The Factory Youth Zone Basketball team , ‘Coach Carter’ is one of the best films about basketball. Do you agree?
Jim and Sue met with members of the team to discuss the project and start the practical sessions. We used screen shots from ‘Coach Carter’ to look at the literacy of the film-making i.e. how the Director and Director of Photography (DoP) choose to frame a particular shot in a particular way. The group identified that long shots can tell us, the viewer, where the story is set . No glamorous uniform for this team, and their body language tells a story.
A close up can be a powerful tool to convey emotion! We didn’t fancy being on the end of this team talk!
think about images and audio as separate elements, and work out how they wanted to mix these elements together. We learnt how to use the sound recorder and boom mike. It’s one of those jobs you need 3 hands for!
