Where to be?

The main question is ‘where to put the camera’ but another one quickly suggests itself: where do you put yourself? Setting up a shot I can peer into Martin’s viewfinder and give notes to the actors or do a bit of crowd control. But when we’re ready to go I’m not aways certain where to look. Miriam has a monitor slung around her neck and there’s the action itself. It’s easy then to get caught in a kind of no man’s land between the two. It’s not a good feeling - particularly if you are only person doing, at the key moment, nothing at all. Martin L focusing, Martin W all ears, Miriam on the script and monitor, the actors in the zone, Camille and Lambert stopping people coming through, Paul loading the clapperboard. To say ‘action’ and then do exactly nothing is a strange sensation of powerlessness.

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