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