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." >> -- >> >> William Robb >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
