Blocking and Staging

As a director, you can always learn from Steven Spielberg. In this video you learn just how good he is at blocking and staging. For background, the video first talks about director Steven Sodobergh desaturated Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981) and removed the score to show just how effective Spielberg's composition and blocking is. 

Here, Indy is framed as the highest person in the room and is aligned with the left vertical rule of thirds line. This visually shows his importance

Both of these shots are in deep focus, and used to show what the characters at diffrent distances from the camera see(the map), or what they don't(the gun).

You can really see how to tell the story with just visuals by analyzing this movie and the choices made and it really got me thinking on how to compose the shots. I'm not making a full movie so it shouldn't take that long, but I really got to make some choices and be bold with it.