On Feb 2, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > 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.
It'd be even worse if anyone read them after you hit send. > That should have been "I once worked with the director Terry Windell..." > and it was a Dodge "television commercial." > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
