[Konvas] Bleu screen or Green screen look there

[steve beverly]

While I agree the "Hey, Ma, look what I can do" unmotivated camera movement for the sake of showing off is distractung and take one out of the moment, I think it is equely destructive to "frown" upon any tool in the film maker's arsenal out of hand. My philosophy is that Shakespeare's line from Hamlet act 3 scene 2 "Suit the word to the action, the action to the word" can be applied to camera movement as well. The crane shot in the rail yard of Gone With rhe Wind would have been NOTHING as a static shot, just as the scene where the woman gets beat up in Pickup on South Street would have lost it's impact had Fuller moved his camera an inch during the scene. The odd overhead tracking shot in Taxi Driver at the end when Travis Bickle lies wounded against the sofa conveyed PERFECTLY the insanity of what had just happened and couldn't been replaced by any other shot and been as effective. The trick is to know when you are using the crane, dolly, steadicam, body mount, Russian arm and hand-held camera to enhance the emotional content of the fram and when you're just masterbating for your own pleasure. EVERYTHING, including camera movement, should be there because it has a strong reason, if not it shold be eliminated because it is distacting and weakens the impact of the image. 

> From: Speedbirdmgh at aol.com
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:08:08 -0500
> To: cinema at konvas.org
> Subject: Re: [Konvas] Bleu screen or Green screen look there
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> _ttp://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/mc_index.html_ 
> (http://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/mc_index.html) 
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> Interesting site PS,
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> Seems to be aimed at CGI users and novice Video types. Not a great fan of  
> Hollywood 'TV production' style
> of shooting using dollies, cranes etc to create movement all the time. In  
> Europe dollies and cranes are frowned upon.
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> The links are certainly useful though and for $300 .00  perhaps somebody 
> may find it informative but I would like to see what else  they offer in this 
> 'quick fix' type of film making instructional dvd.
>  
> I believe any information about film production is invaluable for  people 
> entering the industry but the content of this dvd could in the end  restrict 
> artistic expression as it is marketed for US TV type production  and for 
> 'fast' and 'furious' schedules.
>  
> Perhaps somebody could buy it and let us know if it was worth it.
>  
> Rita  (I will wait for the fallout)
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