On Feb 2, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:

> 
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 11:00 AM, William Robb wrote:
> 
>> On 02/02/2012 9:50 AM, David Savage wrote:
>>> You know those big movie cameras they use in Hollywood? They're manual 
>>> focus.
>>> 
>> Amateurs don't do video the same way pros do. Amateurs tend to do much 
>> longer takes with more (sickeningly bad) attempts at panning or zooming to 
>> follow a moving subject.
>> 
> 
> Exactly. And amateurs don't work with professional actors whose movements are 
> blocked out ahead of time. More importantly, if you're filming your kids 
> soccer game, you don't get to do ten takes. One time when I worked with the 
> director Terry Windell shooting the actor, Ed Herrmann for a Dodge television 
> control that required Ed to hit six spots on the stage while speaking about 
> twenty words. After 21 takes where either Ed or the camera operator failed to 
> get it right, the usually very dignified Mr. Herrmann said something very bad 
> about his deceased mother. Everyone stared at their shoes. 
> Paul
> 

Gawd. Have to read my posts before hitting send. That should have been "I once 
worked with the director Terry Windell..."   and it was a Dodge "television 
commercial."


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