Hi Tom. Regarding your camera moves. Try giving them a slight touch of 'overshoot' and 'settle and rest' instead of it coming to a stop so hard. If you image a person operating the camera they wouldn't be able to come to such an accurate/abrupt stop, they would go over their mark slightly and then go back. Even a mechanic device does that to some degree. It only needs to be slight in each case. The same is true of pulling away, that may need to have a (very) slight opposite movement too before the move begins.
Hey Alan, I see what you mean. I did try this when I first began working with the cameras but I came to the decision to have each camera move in a robotic way to encompass the idea of being trapped and choreographed and then as he becomes free of the interior prison, specifically in the dance sequence, the camera would free up a bit more and become looser and a bit more flowing :]
Hi Tom. Regarding your camera moves. Try giving them a slight touch of 'overshoot' and 'settle and rest' instead of it coming to a stop so hard. If you image a person operating the camera they wouldn't be able to come to such an accurate/abrupt stop, they would go over their mark slightly and then go back. Even a mechanic device does that to some degree. It only needs to be slight in each case. The same is true of pulling away, that may need to have a (very) slight opposite movement too before the move begins.
ReplyDeleteHey Alan, I see what you mean. I did try this when I first began working with the cameras but I came to the decision to have each camera move in a robotic way to encompass the idea of being trapped and choreographed and then as he becomes free of the interior prison, specifically in the dance sequence, the camera would free up a bit more and become looser and a bit more flowing :]
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