Today during a class exercise exploring the role of the Assistant Director on a film set, one of the my students at Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility had the courage to rebel against the stagnant grammar of main stream filmmaking. Instead of saying QUIET ON THE SET before the take. He shouted MOMENT OF SILENCE! - Which uncannily has the same connotation of MOS ( which means recording with no sound - MIT OUT SOUND ). Also, think about it...moment of silence ..that is loaded..... .....They take ownership of the medium even though it is radically new to them. They make it their own.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 05:14:40 +0000
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