2nd_Recon wrote:In essence, I had one shot of me jumping, one shot of me airborn, then a third shot of me landing.
One of the biggest problems I've had with that was overly simple to fix was Truggy's horrible camerawork. I kept trying to tell him "Do NOT zoom at all in this shot" and he would, and I wouldn't know about it untill I looked at the footage the next day, which, by then, it would be to late to reshoot the footage. I thought about this for at least an hour, then enacted my brilliant plan. "(Truggys Real Name), you will not be going behind the camera for a while. ok?"
My personal rule of thumb on zooming... if it is not necessary for the shot ( a specific visual, to separate dialog from the setup of a scene, and it's maybe not necessary here, can be done with a cut ) But I degress, on any one scene, you can rack in OR rack out, one time on the scene, but only if it can be held for 8-10 seconds. The human eye, does not zoom, it may focus on part of a scene but it doesn't zoom. Behind the camera we use the rack in to force the audience to focus on what we want them to, but since that zoom is such a foreign element to the human eye, we need time for the audience to adjust to the new perspective. and that is the reson you only go one direction, one time. If you need to get closer, then a new camera angle is required.