Moving Camera During an Interview

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matcorp

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Hello,

I was wondering what is the best way in achieving the moving camera look during an interview. Please take a look at the videos if you are not sure what I mean.

Is that done in post with with some of wiggle? Or is it done while shooting? Is there a certain technique for this trick?

Thank you in advance :)
 
Great question. I think the zoom ins and outs could be software, but the side moves may be actual panning on a tripod. I am a novice, so I am curious what some pros will say.
 
there are a lot of ways to go about this. a pretty fool-proof approach is to shoot higher res than you deliver in so you have headroom to move things around in post.

looking at your example video. thats the first thing i thought of because the live frame was smaller than the window. maybe they intentionally edited in 720 to give them room to move their 1080 footage. but then why wouldnt they have just exported a full size 720 end product???...???

the more i looked at it though, you can see in the zooms that the background moves and changes focus on a different scale than the subject. which would generally indicate that they did it in-camera...

and that's my preferred method. just shoot hand-held and push, pull and move as you shoot. but this is an almost "painterly" approach and requires both practice to get right and also that youre actually listening to and understand what they are talking about so that your moves are relative to what they are saying.
 
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Matcorp,

Sliders are all the rage for small camera motion. They sit on flat surfaces or mount to your tripod and allow your cam to move on a car, mounted on a short track. Many companies make them, and there is a ton of DIY info on DVXuser. Check out the DIY section.

Grant
 
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Lets not overthink this guys. A professional camera operator is usd to doing this stuff, the style is discussed with the director before shooting and its all done in the camera. I've been doing this for years its no mystery.
 
exposure said:
Lets not overthink this guys. A professional camera operator is usd to doing this stuff, the style is discussed with the director before shooting and its all done in the camera. I've been doing this for years its no mystery.
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It isn't over thinking, just supplying options.

My suggestion to the OP is whatever he chooses, use it sparingly. My wife had on some restaurant reality show that snap zoomed at every cut. EVERY CUT. Two shot, snap zoom, cut. Another two shot, snap zoom, cut. And it was every 5 or 6 seconds. After pointing out how irritating I thought it was she couldn't think about anything else so she changed the channel.

So add some motion but not so much that it takes the viewer out of the moment.

Cole
 
Having worked ENG, I'm all but certain this was entirely done in camera on every shot here, just as Exposure noted. Some local TV stations specifically request their news photogs, promo and commercial people shoot like this; as GGrantly says, make the camera work the point. With practice it's not that difficult, especially with an on-shoulder ENG camera.

Having said that, it may indeed be a good exercise to try to mimic this in post. You may be able to attain a unique look this way that fits your desires.
 
Simply tripod and zoom lens and creative camera work. Its easy to blow a shot if you don't watch it. Practice
 
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