haven't seen the video, so this is probably a guess, but given ~4 years of working at a video production house I'd say an educated one: you're probably right on both counts. lot's of people don't notice things like reversed name tags, so good eye there ;-). and yes, video is often flipped so that the continuity is maintained, or a sequence of shots has a character traveling in the same direction to meet someone. it's the same principle that applies in movies where all the airplanes going to New York from LA will fly left to right on screen and when they fly from NY to LA they fly right to left across the screen.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Scott Stroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I took it as one of 2 things: > > 1. They wanted everyone knew this retired man had to go to work at Wal-Mart > to make ends meet and they wanted to make you could read the name tag > accurately. > 2. When they were editing the piece, maybe they did not like the shot the > way it was and simply reveresed it so it looked better (I am assuming you > can do that with video). > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> well... I did not see the video. But was it possible that they were >> making a point about WalMartization? If not, then yeah, continuity >> error. Oops. >> >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Scott Stroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I would argue they did not learn from her mistake. >> > >> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:42 AM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> The Obama video editors learned from the mistakes of the crazy lady who >> >> carved that "B" backwards...... >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Scott Stroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > At about 9 minutes in, in the segment where they are talking about the >> >> > couple where the man retired from the railroad. >> >> > >> >> > At one point they show him getting dressed in a mirror and he puts on >> a >> >> tag >> >> > from Wal-Mart and you could read the name tag clear as day, it was not >> >> > reversed. Same thing when he put on his hat. >> >> > >> >> > I can understand why they may have done that, but it really stuck out >> to >> >> me >> >> > that you could read the name tag normally. >> >> > -- >> >> > Scott Stroz >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277474 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
