We have the Whirling Dervish Cameraman on Acid taking an overdose of double espressos. The cameraman should never be noticed by the viewer.
This is a great article: The Art of Operating a Camera
http://www.surreyborder.org.uk/artic...camera-art.htm
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All too often today we see on professional television, badly framed, badly lit, out of focus, shaky camera work, with cameras never still for an instant. So if the professionals do it, it must be easy and OK for us to follow their example.
Sadly, in this day and age, accountants run television companies, not entrepreneurs with vision. Cost conscious Production Managers will employ, Researchers, Production Assistants, Gophers etc. And if the opportunity offers itself will even use amateur video clubs, and their members to 'do it on the cheap' for their productions.
They do often employ professional Cameramen, and then you won't notice the camera work, however expert it is. And this of course is exactly how it should be. The viewer should never, never notice the camera work.
And after all this preamble this is where I am leading. The viewer should never be aware of the camera, or its operation. Every pan. every tilt. re framing should be 'motivated' and camera movement timed to coincide with artist movement, movement within the frame, or a musical phrase. Cutting between shots should hardly be noticed. and to achieve this, there have to be a few common denominators.
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The BBC seem to have thrown out the basics of Film-making 101 with the bathwater of Home Counties South Formation Military Two-Step.
Sad.