ABSTRACT
Award winning filmmaker, Josh Crook, has directed a dozen feature films and just as many television episodes. The camera is the center point and as the scene progresses, the more important aspects of the scene should be drawn towards the camera as if it were the center of gravity. A cine-Virtual Reality director will block actors in ways that are similar, yet different from both film and theater. Lines, light and balance focus our attention on Hildy because the director has staged the scene for the camera. There is no longer an “upstage” or “downstage”, stage right or stage left – because there is no audience to play to. Nor is there a camera in the sense of creating a specific frame. When a character or prop is beyond 18 feet from the camera, there are typically ignored by the audience – unless they are the only character in the scene.
