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Re: How many camera's is ideal?
I shot a feature with 2 dvx's in the Fall.. and it shaved off 4 shooting days. We never shot opposite angles ever.. It can be done, but you need alot of lights and alot of time so it cancels it out. However, we did shoot wide and tight almost always, and for the "steamy" scenes and other 1 camera scenes the 2nd operator would become 2nd unit and would go pick off insert shots, etc. It also saved alot of time pulling off crowd reaction shots etc. during the same scene with 2 cameras.
Editors loved us in the end because if there was a problem with one of the frames they had an alternate. For some reason during this movie I swear it was where's waldo with waterbottles.. they kept popping up in the BG.
The only problem we did have and didn't realize it till post, was the 2 cameras didnt even come close to matching.. specially in sharpness.
I shot a feature with 2 dvx's in the Fall.. and it shaved off 4 shooting days. We never shot opposite angles ever.. It can be done, but you need alot of lights and alot of time so it cancels it out. However, we did shoot wide and tight almost always, and for the "steamy" scenes and other 1 camera scenes the 2nd operator would become 2nd unit and would go pick off insert shots, etc. It also saved alot of time pulling off crowd reaction shots etc. during the same scene with 2 cameras.
Editors loved us in the end because if there was a problem with one of the frames they had an alternate. For some reason during this movie I swear it was where's waldo with waterbottles.. they kept popping up in the BG.
The only problem we did have and didn't realize it till post, was the 2 cameras didnt even come close to matching.. specially in sharpness.