Wayne Throop wrote:
> Yeah, I know, you meant "pretend the camera is being held by an amateur
> with palsy and has no image stabilization feature". But deliberately
> introducing gratuitous camera motions is the general category that
> includes both. Both are fourth-wall-breaking, pretty much. In the
> case of turbulence-cam, it behaves as if there's a physical object that
> represents the viewpoint, which draws the attention to the fact that,
> in fact, there isn't, or shouldn't be. Traditional shaky-cam draws
> attention to the fact that, gosh, there is a cam and a camera operator
> and a whole crew out of sight of what you're looking at.
I don't disagree with you; it just bugs me less. The constant in-person
shaky-cam is really annoying. The artificial camera motions that
suggest the camera is somewhere it couldn't possibly be are somewhat
less so to me.
> Now, shaky-cam motions representing pilot head movement, or even
shaky-cam
> motions representing an actual physical object, like the plane one is
> seemingly aboard, are less distracting, at least to me.
They're in between what you describe above and the blatant shaky-cam for
me. For instance, the artificial jerky zooming and panning we see a lot
in a series like _Battlestar Galactica_, which is overdone, especially
in what are essentially "static" shots of the fleet.
> Yes, good point. I presumed it was showing actual latitude and
> longitude; an arguably useful feature... except that it's so faint that
> it's only a background annoyance instead of anything actually useful.
> And as you point out, it seems to be done in shots where it makes
> no sense.
It's sometimes attached to the CGI when they're zooming and panning
around, but even then there's often this digital noise scrolling and
panning by. The noise attached to the grid looks technical, but doesn't
appear to be anything coherent (and there's an awful lot of it).
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