Screenwriting has been a key passion for years. I can already tell that this site has a lot of energy and many paths and avenues to creative union. Am on the writing path and would like to direct my first short. I hope to learn from this site so that the short is what I've visualize. Now, how do you film a beach scene at night, lit by the moon and a camp fire, especially if the real background at your disposal is a desert?
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Brandi, thanks for the reply and advice about the Screenplay and Cinematography section. With the wealth of talent, I'm sure I can have every question answered. And this happened to be a great Tuesday!
Hi Leslie, nice to meet you - and you jump in with a great question. Would love to discuss this... I think you should work with editing the film scenes. Film some beach and ocean scenes where you have a cliff background or wide dunes (simply only nature, no houses) and then your scenes in the desert in which you have to add the ocean noises in the background later of course. All other technical possibilities probably will cost much more time and money. I guess it you can even leave the beach scenes out and work only with the ocean noises in the background - depending on your story.
For actors on the surf side, I was thinking of drawing a green screen across the background (in the desert), except for the minor detail that it's a night scene, and I doubt we could see the difference in color enough to knock the green out later. If I'm wrong about this, would love to know. I could shoot it from a high or low angle so that the surf wouldn't even be visible if it were there. But I do need a few shots of the actors against what appears to be the beach. The other actors are on the dune side.
Hi Elizabeth. thanks for your reply. I just posted this in the Cinematography lounge and suggested that a green fluorescent screen might work (?).
Welcome to the Stage Elisabeth! And your jumping right in. I love your style. When I write a scene I do a lot of background resource searching on the web. "HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE." Plus there are tons of books, (which I have). Your're gonna fit in quite nice. Pens Up!
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