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Subject: [OM] Re: MOving picture cameras
From: <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:54:13 -0500
Walt,

All so true. Thanks for making me feel old!

Bill
> Totally useless to stand in front of a spot where something happened 10 
> hours ago and blab away like this is real news.  If you didn't get it when 
> it happened, just let the talking heads read the script.  Shots of crime 
> scene tape are so boring!
>
> And zooming and panning, too!  I recall my first day on the job, Corky 
> Hoover, the news director, told me in no uncertain terms to never forget 
> that a movie camera is designed to record motion, not to create it, and if 
> I panned, I'd better be following something moving or have a reason good 
> enough for him not to kick my butt.  There was no danger any of us would 
> be zooming.  Those lenses were reserved for special occasions.  Other 
> things that could get you in trouble besides no establishing shots were 
> jump cuts and no cutaways for fixing the jump cuts you shouldn't have shot 
> to begin with.
>
> Walt
> 



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