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Ten big promises that will improve everybody's filming
JAMES W. MOORE, ACL
WANT to make some New Year's resolutions? Want to pledge yourself to a few simple promises which, in the twelve months to come, will improve your filming pleasure? Come on, then! Raise your right hand and repeat after me . . .
I Resolve: to get a good, sturdy tripod and to use it unfailingly on every scene I make, for now and forever. I agree, too, that the "pan and tilt" head is intended primarily as an aid in lining up my shots, not as a mechanical license to spray the landscape. I believe that slanted horizons are unpleasant, and I know that, after I have used my tripod for, say, a month, I shall never again want to film without it.
I Resolve: to foreswear "panning"' and tilting, except on scenes where I wish to follow a moving object. I admit that fast "panning" ruins the eyes, that slow "panning" wastes the film and that all "panning" is basically a form of cameraman's laziness. I plan instead to sequence my footage, from Ions; shot to medium
shot to closeup, and to adapt my camera viewpoints to the sense and subject matter which I wish to portray. If I am filming my son through his mother's eyes, I shall shoot downward from a high angle: if I am picturing Mother as the boy sees him, I shall get down in his own small world and shoot upward. I shall remember that it is the fluid change of viewpoint which comprises the "motion" of motion pictures, not the swooping and unsteady camera.
I Resolve: to clean the gate of my camera immediately before loading each new roll of film, for I know that the whiskered images of a dirty gale can ruin irrevocably my finest footage. I accept the fact that such constant cleaning may sound excessive, but I state firmly in return: I prefer to be safe to being sorry.
I Resolve: to load my camera in the darkest place available in the locale where I am working. I shall do this indoors if such space is at hand. I shall do it in deep shade [Continued on page 29]
LOSS OF IOOP
* Nothing can quite duplicate the surrealistic effect of "panning" or loss of loop, while edge fog relieves the tedium of an all black background.
"PANNING'
EDGE FOG
• A dirty gate sends the audience searching for fly swatters and a sequence with a slanted horizon makes your spectators all bend in one direction to regain their balance.
SLANTED HORIZON