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Re: [OM] Movie Photography Rant

Subject: Re: [OM] Movie Photography Rant
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:25:39 +0100
You'd probably not appreciate the inverted flying then...

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/fact-vs-fiction/fact-vs-fiction-rolling-an-airliner-14466431


On 22 February 2013 18:12, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That sounds a bit like schoolboy errors, Chris.
>
> I tend not to see many films, but especially not ones about flying.  I'm
> almost bound to find fault since I can't switch off . . .
>
> Chris
> On 22 Feb 2013, at 14:18, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >     I very rarely find fault with the photography in movies, but this
> one is an exception.  I finally went to see "Flight" the other day.  Good
> story, good acting, and some interesting aerobatics with a DC-9.
> >
> >     But there were places where the photography was awful.  At one
> point, the focus of the camera shifted rapidly from the actor's face to
> some point immediately behind him, then in front, the behind, then back to
> where it should have been all along.  It wasn't the fault of the
> projectionist, but instead it was the cameraman, and the editing room
> should have caught that.
> >
> >     The worst photography had to do with two scenes that were filmed
> with two of the actors sitting on a porch.  The entire porch is in shadow,
> so everything there is in diminished lighting so that details are not
> readily discernible.  At the same time, the background outside of the porch
> and in full daylight is terribly washed out.  A little bit of supplemental
> lighting on the porch would have corrected that, and whoever was
> responsible for that omission should be kept away from making movies
> entirely.
>
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