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Steve Mann wrote on 4/22/2012, 12:44 PM
That was hard to watch.
Byron K wrote on 4/22/2012, 2:06 PM
Lots of nice angles and soft dof shots. I can learn from this video.

As far as the content, It's fine with me... I'm comfortable w/ my mortality. (;
Paul Fierlinger wrote on 4/22/2012, 8:52 PM
>>>>That was hard to watch<<<<
Not when you're old; maybe you're not old enough.
david-ruby wrote on 4/22/2012, 9:08 PM
I loved it. I am glad I had the chance to see this man and his honor and courage to share with us his life/love in short. Very touched and thank you for the post. Great work.
Butch Moore wrote on 4/22/2012, 11:48 PM
Inspirational
riredale wrote on 4/23/2012, 12:28 AM
Nicely done, though I personally would have preferred fewer focus changes. A couple would have been enough.

I've reached the age (62) where a number of friends have already died. You wonder what it will be like when your time comes. At this age I know I'm on the down side of the roller-coaster ride, though my health right now is excellent, aside from a couple of minor glitches.

And I guess it helps to have a sense of humor. I tell this joke:

"When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not terrified and screaming like the passengers in his car."
Laurence wrote on 4/23/2012, 1:13 PM
The first time I watched it, I noticed the rolling shutter on the windshield shot about a minute in, but not much else technically, I just enjoyed the story.

After watching it a few more times, I noticed all the camera angles with cuts between them often mid sentence. He must have had at least two cameras, maybe three on the interview shots, with angles constantly being adjusted.

Is anyone here familiar with this sort of workflow? With APS sized sensor DSLRs being relatively inexpensive, and with Plural Eyes making such child's play out of syncing multiple cameras to audio, I am quite interested in this approach.
subchaz wrote on 4/23/2012, 2:13 PM
This was shown on the BBC around a month ago here in the UK,

so it should be of a qaulity standard,

the whole docu was very moving and somewhat chilling,

but really nice shooting and editing
[r]Evolution wrote on 4/23/2012, 4:22 PM
I noticed the rolling shutter on the windshield shot about a minute in, but not much else technically,

When there's a solid story, you can get away with lots of 'little things'. Problem is, too many people start with weak stories, tack on weak shooting, then top it off with weak editing.

I would have probably shot different angles and framings to cut to but... We can always find something "wrong" when that's what we are looking for. I think it's an awesome story, shot awesomely, and edited in an equally awesome way.

PluralEyes may help but if you were shooting an interview with 2 or more Cams... you wouldn't start/stop/start/stop so minimal syncing would be needed.