brave words from safe places

Rory Cooper wrote on 6/5/2008, 10:17 PM
I was in a meeting a week ago discussing some new concepts and a few people from the marketing dept made a statement “get a few camera people you don’t have to be intelligent to be a camera man”
And another quipped “yes you just point and shoot”. Well from the safest places come the bravest words .

I looked at Muttley’s clip last night and his eye for composition is really good it is not easy getting f stops , composition , DOF right ,when you film by the seat of your pants

I have an ad agency background as an art director where an experienced crew was doing all the shooting now I am learning and doing that myself and I am really enjoying learning new stuff
Its not easy but my mind has been opened to a whole new very creative medium I wish I had started earlier

To you experienced camera guys I wanna be like you man

Rory


Comments

deusx wrote on 6/5/2008, 10:24 PM
Didn't you know that computers have been doing all the work since around 1990. All we do is turn them on and click in a couple of places.
apit34356 wrote on 6/6/2008, 12:10 AM
"To you experienced camera guys I wanna be like you man" Yea, a good camera guy is worth a 1000 duds with any camera types. I actually have a really "strong" understanding of optics, electronics,layouts,green screens..etc.. but on any big professional project or shoot, I usually look for an experienced (DP)camera guy(s).
ushere wrote on 6/6/2008, 3:31 AM
i know all too well my limitations as a cameraman, especially now that i'm editing my own camera work with regularity.

if the budget ever allows i'd certainly hire a 'pro'. however with my clients it hardly ever does, and with me, as a producer wanting more profit it probably wont), but in the meantime, until i have a client complain, or i throttle the f'ing cameraman), my work can only get better ;-} after all, nothing teaches better than mistakes....

leslie

i LIKE the concept of the air guitarist being filmed by the air cam. its an intellectually stimulating visions - that makes it a truly perfect conceptual artwork. i mean, you don't even need to film it as long as you can write a dense, complex, obtuse, manifesto for it's existence, or rather, non-existence....

i can see shades of the final scene in blow-up.......
blink3times wrote on 6/6/2008, 3:49 AM
I'm doing a piece on the life of a doll's head right now. Quite often you see a doll's head in the street and I got to wondering how and why it's there, so I'm filming the doll head as it comes from the store attached to the body..... comes off and gets tossed to the garbage..... falls out of the garbage, gets picked up by the wind and blown down the back lane...... yadda, yadda.

Right now it's in the street and a street cleaner is coming for it. I haven't decided if a kid is going to kick it to safety onto the sidewalk or what yet. I guess I'm just mindless and haven't got the IQ required to come to a decision ;)
Rory Cooper wrote on 6/6/2008, 3:58 AM
That’s quite a concept but very real

sometimes it’s the most important things in life “like the head” that we discard as bieng of no value

like to hear what you come up with

Rory