Chapter 141
TL: KSD
Working on the movie scenario felt like a battle with the unknown.
And what was that unknown? It was the presence of an old man next to me who endlessly spouted knowledge I had no clue about.
“This scene would look better if we used sunlight as the key light. Can’t we change the background to an outdoor setting?”
“Huh? What light?”
“Ah, you see, that’s…”
By this point, everything So Tae-woong said sounded to me like, <Ah, you don’t know this? This is called a ‘key light’…>
I was a complete outsider when it came to movies, whereas So Tae-woong was practically a walking embodiment of cinema. Our collaboration wasn’t exactly smooth.
Film speed, emulsion sensitivity, curvature, rotoscoping, loose framing, ripple dissolve, variable focal transitions, angle of view, screen persistence, and so on…