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| Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 07:21 PM EDT |
Lights: The very hot, high-powered lights were turned on. They were turned off
between takes because they had a short lifetime due to being run at a high color
temperature. Bright light was needed because it wasn't possible to extend the
exposure time.
Camera: The camera took a few seconds to get up to speed, wasting expensive film
the whole time.
Action: Once the camera was up to speed, the "sound board" was
clapped. The board had hand-written scene information that would be used in the
cutting room. The clapping sound acted as the synchronization pulse so the
sound recording could later be aligned with the images. For the final prints,
the sound was an optical track a few frames offset from the matching image. It
couldn't be on the same frame because the film was fed forward a frame at a
time, stopping for exposure/projection.
Cut: Physically cut the film and stop the camera. That saved the cost of
developing unexposed film, and the waste of exposing frames as the camera came
to a halt. Each scene ended up on its own reel, which didn't need to be
processed if it was not needed.
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