NBC's 10.5 driving me nuts!!.

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booggerg

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I'm watching this cheesy mini series on NBC, 10.5. The freakin' DP uses sooo much damn snap zoom!! It's soooo annoying. I want to walk up and punch the DP in the face.
 
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Try just turning off the TV instead.  Fewer lawsuits. More english lessons.
 
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Actually, I just watched about 40 seconds of it (before I logged on here), and I saw no less than three snap zooms in that time.

I can understand why it'd be driving you nuts by now . . .
 
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BWUAHA this is such a ghetto production...your proverbial TV movie if you will... One aerial shot of a building was just a reversed shot of a previously shown shot. All the cars on the streets were going backwards!! BUWHAHAHAAH>A
 
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No way! I am so watching now! I love this type of crap cause it means that I have a chance at making this kind of crap! :D
 
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[quote author=filmmaker58 link=board=news;num=1083549843;start=0#1 date=05/02/04 at 19:06:11]Try just turning off the TV instead.  Less lawsuits.[/quote]

Fewer lawsuits. Less goes with singular items, fewer with plural - always remember: less fat, fewer calories.

(Okay, I hear it now, all the complaints that we now have an English teacher online - actually, I shared an office with a former English teacher and he bugged me about this so I'm passing it on to you - on a serious note, however, keep this distinction in mind when you write your scripts, especially documentaries or commercials - for dramas, no one cares).
 
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[quote author=John Hudson link=board=news;num=1083549843;start=0#5 date=05/02/04 at 20:11:42]No way!  I am so watching now!  I love this type of crap cause it means that I have a chance at making this kind of crap!  :D[/quote]

If you want to see it.. it's the shot of the city hall towards the latter part of the movie.
 
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Im watching it now and thanking god that I have the sense (cockiness) that I can make this crap.
 
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Don't go see "Man On fire" if the you don't like the camera movement drawing attention to itself. I liked the movie, but the camerawork was a little over the top.
 
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[quote author=danslak link=board=news;num=1083549843;start=0#9 date=05/05/04 at 08:56:59]It's the DIRECTOR you want to punch. Not the DP. Let me know and I'll hold him for you.[/quote]

Scratch that... now I'd like to punch them both.
 
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Actually,you'd want to punch the Director of the "Galactica" mini series because that's where all this "snap zoom" nonsense started.

::)
 
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Well, boys. "Man on Fire" and "10.5" are two of the hottest and most watched productions in 2004. The average audience loves this stuff...and the camera work.

I think Spielberg is the only director left that does't use that snap zoom stuff.
 
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I think the snap zoom can work if done in the right context (like anything).

Man on Fire felt right; whereas what i saw of 10.5 look contrived.
 
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Snap zooms have there place, in 1970's kung fu movies. I think thats the only time I appreciated there effectiveness, well that and the opening segment to Hawaii 5-0.
 
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