I was a little bored on the weekend and decided to get a quick teamof film buddies together to shoot a very short fight chorie piece just for experimentation purposes. Only 25s but it was surely a good learning curve. No storyboards, no concepts, and practice. On the spot thinking is this kind of film exercise!
Hope you like the edits and there will be plenty more to come in future.
Camera operator: Quan Tran
Editor: Maria Tran
Choreography by: Maria Tran & Adrian Castro
Equipment: Vanna Seang & Dragon Vision Productions
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MY THOUGHTS: I think there is an aspect of me that really wants to delve into fight choreography (from both a performer as well as a filmmaker perspective). So far, I know there's not a lot of women in this field that know beyond the martial arts side of things, but also how to shoot, edit and sell action shots. So again, I'm still developing, and will be rolling out a series of developmental clips and am open to further collaborations with different teams.
So what makes or breaks a fight scene/ sequence? M. Choi (from Marvel Comics) article points to the question of: How high are the stakes? She mentions how the uber fast cutting of fight scenes such as those of Transformers: Dark of the Moon just didn't move her. The audience needs to connect with what is at stake and that if the "underdog" fails then it will be the end.
Anyhow, I just hope my quick fight scene (unfortunately, I never reach the end because, it is just a test fight) proves a little more edgy then this:
But then again, this Kung Fu Catfight leaves little to the imagination...which can be quite an exciting venture....
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