THE POST-PRODUCTION: principal shooting/shot-for-shot

SHOT-FOR-SHOT:
(shot-for-shot adaptation, shot-for-shot representation) a term that describes visual work thats transferred almost identical from the original work without much interpretation. this term is mostly used in the film industry these days when it comes to producing films that come from a sort of comic/graphic novel origin. usually when screenplays are adapted for film, there are storyboards created for visual representation so that the crew knows how it should be shot. however, some directors (such as robert rodriguez) skipped that process and just used the comic panels as the storyboardseach scene or cut thats from the movie is identical to the panel in the publication.examples: sin city, 300, tintin


PRINCIPAL SHOOTING:
during the production of sin city, many of the scenes were shot before every actor was signed-on for their roles. in order for this time conserative process to work, there were several stand-ins used before the actual actors were digitally added into the film during post-production. some of the actors that share the same scene in the movie didn't shoot the scene together in real life. rodriguez, a knowledgeable person of cinematic technology, used the same sort of techniques in the past.