I had to stop watching in the middle. The whole time my brain kept screaming about the absolutely horrid directing, and I couldn't take it any more.
The experience was totally ruined. Bad jumps, lousy framing, improper centering, a whole gamut of cinematographic disaster. It was worse than watching "The Blair Witch Project" because that move would not have been improved with real camera work, whereas this guy's skills were probably an entertainment bliss to the live audience.
To make things worse, the actual camera work was great. The camerapeople did a beautiful job of executing totally horked instructions.
Hint: He's juggling to music. Spacial relationships! Physical representations of musical interaction! Show the entire path of the objects in motion, dammit, not just his hand passing out of the frame, or the lower third of a trajectory. Proportion and perspective take on greater meaning, so don't jump from one wide angle shot to a tight shot from a different camera - it's jarring to the brain to recalculate the visual relationships. Besides, a close shot of this guy's head and shoulders without a view of the highly choreographed arm motions, not to speak of the balls themselves, just plain sucks! We're not watching his nose! We're watching the wide frame!
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Date: 2006-02-22 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-23 12:41 am (UTC)I've always wanted to be able to juggle. I'm in awe of the man!
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Date: 2006-02-23 02:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 03:50 am (UTC)So cool, and yet so sucky.
Date: 2006-02-23 08:31 am (UTC)The experience was totally ruined. Bad jumps, lousy framing, improper centering, a whole gamut of cinematographic disaster. It was worse than watching "The Blair Witch Project" because that move would not have been improved with real camera work, whereas this guy's skills were probably an entertainment bliss to the live audience.
To make things worse, the actual camera work was great. The camerapeople did a beautiful job of executing totally horked instructions.
Hint: He's juggling to music. Spacial relationships! Physical representations of musical interaction! Show the entire path of the objects in motion, dammit, not just his hand passing out of the frame, or the lower third of a trajectory. Proportion and perspective take on greater meaning, so don't jump from one wide angle shot to a tight shot from a different camera - it's jarring to the brain to recalculate the visual relationships. Besides, a close shot of this guy's head and shoulders without a view of the highly choreographed arm motions, not to speak of the balls themselves, just plain sucks! We're not watching his nose! We're watching the wide frame!
ARGH!!!!!
Pretty cool, though.