View Full Version : information overload syndrome--the downside of democratization
brianluce
01-18-2008, 07:33 PM
Anyone ever feel like there's just too much technical information to know? Feel overwhelmed? inadequate?
I can tell, some of this stuff comes easy for some people, others, not. Rather than trying to fill your nut with truckloads of technical data, might it be better just to put an ad in craigslist saying "Wanted, guy who knows sound" or "Wanted, guy who knows lighting".
I've worked for people that have made millions of dollars from video and it's amazing how little they know. This one director I worked with called every single camera move a "Zoom". If he wanted a dolly shot he'd say "Zoom the camera over this way..." The one thing they DO know is how to use the phone.
Zak Forsman
01-18-2008, 07:47 PM
yes? i've found that the quickest solution for anything I don't know how to do, is to throw money at it to get someone else in that knows what they're doing.
btw, i'm using "zoom" for everything now. that's awesome.
Tom Marshall
01-18-2008, 07:48 PM
That's why big budget movies have huge crews. Each department can focus on a specific area of the film...
Your director example is akin to a manager who couldn't do anything if he actually had to do things himself... :)
Sad Max
01-18-2008, 08:26 PM
It varies. Some directors - a very few - can perform production jobs because somewhere in their background, they learned how. A very, very few, can do several jobs competently, and have even won awards for doing so...
Tom Marshall
01-18-2008, 09:52 PM
Like Clint Eastwood...
DevonKrain
01-18-2008, 09:59 PM
Like Robert Rodriguez. He's the best.
Andrew McCarrick
01-18-2008, 10:26 PM
Like Robert Rodriguez. He's the best.
yep.. I agree...... kind of inspired me (http://imdb.com/name/nm1934894/) lol.
Batutta
01-18-2008, 10:56 PM
Like Robert Rodriguez. He's the best.
As long as he stays away from the typewriter.
Tom Marshall
01-18-2008, 10:59 PM
Like Robert Rodriguez. He's the best.
That guy is a TRUE filmmaker. He's a filmmakers filmmaker.
DevonKrain
01-18-2008, 11:10 PM
yep.. I agree...... kind of inspired me (http://imdb.com/name/nm1934894/) lol.
:thumbdown
Sad Max
01-19-2008, 10:53 AM
Don't forget Michael Mann.
That McCarrick character overlooked at least another dozen or so categories in which he could have credited himself...
DevonKrain
01-19-2008, 02:33 PM
That McCarrick character overlooked at least another dozen or so categories in which he could have credited himself...
:thumbup:
Andrew McCarrick
01-19-2008, 02:59 PM
That McCarrick character overlooked at least another dozen or so categories in which he could have credited himself...
What exactly do you mean by that?
Sad Max
01-19-2008, 06:34 PM
Given the marvelous range of bases you covered on Agent Undercover it impressed me as likely that you'd performed in some number of further roles for which IMDB has categories available, too.
Sorry for referring to you in the third. I didn't notice your tag before I posted that.
DevonKrain
01-19-2008, 06:59 PM
Given the marvelous range of bases you covered on Agent Undercover it impressed me as likely that you'd performed in some number of further roles for which IMDB has categories available, too.
:thumbup: