C300: C 300's On Oliver Stone Putin Interview

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Mark Smith

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I've watched a bit of the Oliver Stone interview of Putin on Showtime. Big name DP's attached to the show, but i don't think they are operating that much, could be wrong about that. Anyway lots of C300's deployed on the shoot .
 
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DLD said:
Must. Refrain. From. Making. A. Vlad. Comment.
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Why refrain from commenting - its a forum . Two big name Dp's attached to this production and I think they were either texting while shooting or texting while some one else was shooting...
 
Mark Smith said:
Why refrain from commenting - its a forum . Two big name Dp's attached to this production and I think they were either texting while shooting or texting while some one else was shooting...
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I've only seen excerpts. On political sites.

So, let me say that Putin has had more plastic surgery than the cast of "View".
 
The shooting/editing part of it is a little wacky constantly jumping the line in interview sections when Putin is answering . Lots of what I would call fumbling with the camera .
 
FWIW, when I asked a Russian based poster on a Sony (?) thread about what cameras they use in Russia these days, the reply was that the narrative is pretty much all Alexa domain.

The multiple cuts and zooms in post is probably what's in vogue today - the flair for fake drama.
 
DLD said:
FWIW, when I asked a Russian based poster on a Sony (?) thread about what cameras they use in Russia these days, the reply was that the narrative is pretty much all Alexa domain.

The multiple cuts and zooms in post is probably what's in vogue today - the flair for fake drama.
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If you watch the program there are plenty of cameras/operators in the cut. Lots of C series canons to be seen, Canon DSLR's and some ENG style cams as well.
 
Personally, shaky footage makes me nauseous. And that's on top of the two people involved in the interview.

The Showtime/Stone, obviously, could have stabilized this out but they chose not to.

 
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Personally, shaky footage makes me nauseous. And that's on top of the two people involved in the interview.

The Showtime/Stone, obviously, could have stabilized this out but they chose not to.

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Clearly its a "creative choice " on the part of the director and the production in general. THat said , from what I've seen I don't think that stabilization would have helped all that much given the gross quality of the hand held work.
 
Mark Smith said:
... from what I've seen I don't think that stabilization would have helped all that much given the gross quality of the hand held work.
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The credits list is pretty impressive but the footage quality leaves me longing for Megyn Kelly.
 
Maybe the shaky camera work was just a short part of the film. I agree it's nauseating. They defiantly went out of their way to shake things up. That said, content is King, they could shoot this on an iPhone 7 and it would still be interesting. Glad to see Stone braking the boundaries once again, and humanizing Putin. Makes me wish I didn't throw away my TV 7 years ago, I'd watch it.
 
Yes it does look like the typical "dslr being used to film something it is not designed for..." I thought we had moved past that? But in their defense, I would not think the Kremlin as just going to let you waltz in a film how you want. Probably a lot of restrictions and scuffing around the body guards etc... Not the easiest situation to get great footage while keeping it "live-ish".
 
Nah, I am sure Putin's security service inspected cameras, bags, food and empty vodka bottles that someone was bringing onto the premises. And clearly Stone is a big enough name to keep the "final cut" veto over the footage. As to everything else, the "interviewer" seems a fan of Vlad, so the production is likely to have received a lot of leeway in everything else.
 
Michael Thames said:
Maybe the shaky camera work was just a short part of the film. I agree it's nauseating. They defiantly went out of their way to shake things up. That said, content is King, they could shoot this on an iPhone 7 and it would still be interesting. Glad to see Stone braking the boundaries once again, and humanizing Putin. Makes me wish I didn't throw away my TV 7 years ago, I'd watch it.
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Stone seemed to come offf as a sort of bumbling iinterviewer/ jpuurnalist often grasping for ways to phrase his questions which when cut agaisnt Putin's answers , which were edited but sounded very composed and thoughtful. I t made me wonder if Stone prepared much for the interviews or if he was just rattling questions off the top of his head.
 
Mark Smith said:
Stone seemed to come offf as a sort of bumbling iinterviewer/ jpuurnalist often grasping for ways to phrase his questions which when cut agaisnt Putin's answers , which were edited but sounded very composed and thoughtful. I t made me wonder if Stone prepared much for the interviews or if he was just rattling questions off the top of his head.
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Actually, I was wondering the same thing with Megyn Kelly. I assume each of them had a Russian speaking researcher but the depth of their knowledge seemed to be lacking.

As a side note - I was just reading Moscow Ekho piece about the upcoming episode of Stone/Putin. There's an interesting bit where Putin is showing off the Russian military successes in Syria on his smartphone. Apparently, the footage is real but it was taken from the US AH-64 Apache action against the Taliban in Afghanistan but with a Russian voiceover replacing the original American. The original video has been on YouTube for a while and has 1.4 million views. And that's how things are done in Russia.
 
. Apparently, the footage is real but it was taken from the US AH-64 Apache action against the Taliban in Afghanistan but with a Russian voiceover replacing the original American. The original video has been on YouTube for a while and has 1.4 million views. And that's how things are done in Russia.[/QUOTE]

Do you have a link to that youtube video?
 
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