Currently, I was able to attend an exclusive event with the director, cinematographer and screenwriter for Lapwing a recently released historical film production, the story explores:
Lapwing, is an historical drama set in 1555, a year after the Egyptian Act of 1554, which effectively criminalised Romani and Gypsy people and those who harboured them. The plot sees an isolated group of salt farmers arrange illegal passage to Europe for an Indian Gypsy family in hiding. But a love affair between an aphonic English girl and the son of the Egyptians threatens to destroy both communities.
During the event the film was run prior to the Q&A event, as videographer my interpretations of the film were highly positive, as a personal videographer my own interpretations that could have added would have been shot stabilisation and range of shots, for example, within the film there is a specific sequence during which patience is battered in high tensions with David, during this sequence we are very close to patience. however we don't see her face to read her feelings or emotions.
Consequently, my preferable choice would have been to maybe is have patience for a few seconds look slightly off camera,, but so that we are as an audience can read how she feels.
Moreover, post the films run, I had the opportunity to run questions by the production team that included director (Philip Stevens) screenwriter (Laura Turner) and cinematographer (Stewart McGregor), during the Q&A, questions were posed about the planning and production run of the film.
For the shoot the film spent around 16 days on shooting across three weeks, however one of the main responses that came from the event was about collaborative communication and ways of working with different people, I found this to be an important lesson of creative craft in ways of working with people that your opinions can differ with, henceforth going forward I will be trying to work with collaboratively with departments across the University centre.
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