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]]> http://www.videomaker.com/community/videonews/2009/07/4955-cheating-in-video-production/comment-page-1/#comment-10516 VideoChick Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:53:23 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/?p=4955#comment-10516 Similar to Zoobie's "cheat" above, I had to edit another news shooter's raw footage of a local festival for the 6:00 newscast after he went home sick. Apparently, he really WAS sick because when I threw the tape into rewind and watched the fast moving footage, something didn't look right. He did a reverse record goof. He hit the "record" button when he meant to stop, and stopped the recording when he meant to record, so I saw long rambling shots of him wandering around the festival taken as he dollied his camera around, but every time he framed and focused on a subject to shoot, just as hit got the framing and focus set, he'd hit the red button and the shot moved on to the next rambling scene. He was a shooter that never took his camera off a dolly, so I worked that to my benefit. At one point, I came across about 2 minutes of uninterrupted music during one wandering scene, so using that, I slowed down some of the wandering shots which made them sort of fluid, then I sped up others, reversed some shots, and made a few quick back-to-back freeze frames for effect, all to the beat of the "wild sound" music. This was before NLE's so it was all tape-to-tape editing. Very limiting, but I used every trick in the book to make a minute and a half "news show closer" piece. I got wonderful responses for my "artistic interpretation" of the festival, and the festival coordinators even bought the aircheck news story. Similar to Zoobie’s “cheat” above, I had to edit another news shooter’s raw footage of a local festival for the 6:00 newscast after he went home sick. Apparently, he really WAS sick because when I threw the tape into rewind and watched the fast moving footage, something didn’t look right. He did a reverse record goof. He hit the “record” button when he meant to stop, and stopped the recording when he meant to record, so I saw long rambling shots of him wandering around the festival taken as he dollied his camera around, but every time he framed and focused on a subject to shoot, just as hit got the framing and focus set, he’d hit the red button and the shot moved on to the next rambling scene. He was a shooter that never took his camera off a dolly, so I worked that to my benefit. At one point, I came across about 2 minutes of uninterrupted music during one wandering scene, so using that, I slowed down some of the wandering shots which made them sort of fluid, then I sped up others, reversed some shots, and made a few quick back-to-back freeze frames for effect, all to the beat of the “wild sound” music. This was before NLE’s so it was all tape-to-tape editing. Very limiting, but I used every trick in the book to make a minute and a half “news show closer” piece. I got wonderful responses for my “artistic interpretation” of the festival, and the festival coordinators even bought the aircheck news story.

]]> http://www.videomaker.com/community/videonews/2009/07/4955-cheating-in-video-production/comment-page-1/#comment-10401 zoobie Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:15:55 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/?p=4955#comment-10401 I had some old hi8 footage of several individual performers that were shot under really low light conditions. Rather than trying to fix each of them, I simply strung them together, adjusted the threshold and solarization, and made a colorful 4 minute art film out of it. Too easy. Never throw anything out. You can use it for something, eventually. I had some old hi8 footage of several individual performers that were shot under really low light conditions. Rather than trying to fix each of them, I simply strung them together, adjusted the threshold and solarization, and made a colorful 4 minute art film out of it. Too easy. Never throw anything out. You can use it for something, eventually.

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