Posted by nappy on 07/18/07 21:25

"Martin Heffels" <goofies@flikken.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:57:15 -0000, "jef_boy@hotmail.com"
> <jef_boy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello, I am just a newbie, but you say in the video that professionals
>>rarely zoom. However, I noticed in a recent hit documentary that they
>>zoomed a lot during interviews to highlight the person's emotions.
>
> Ah yes. Harvey is correct, pro's hardly zoom, unless it is for a
> specific effects. The reason behind this is that you can't zoom with
> you eyes either, so the only wat to see somthing closer, is to move
> in. This has to do with keeping the perspective "real" as well.
>
> In current tv, the editors have become so lazy and stupid, that they
> don't know how to cut properly anymore, so they leave the zooms in.
> One day somebody did this, and someone else saw it, and thought it was
> a cool effect, done on purpose. But that of course is non-sense: the
> editor who introduced it (or the channel which let rubbish like this
> pass), should get it's ten fingers chopped off and his eyes poked out,
> so he can never edit again.
>

Yeah.. One day years back MTV started hiring crack addicts with attention
spans of around 2.5 seconds as PRODUCERS. They fired all of the editors and
replaced them with more crack addicts. They did the same with the shooters.
'

No one in the rest of the media bothered to notice this as they all stood in
line to replicate these new "techniques"

Which brings us to now.

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