STOP shaking the damn camera

While we’re pitting camera operators… I’ve got another related gripe. Cell-phone videographers, stop shooting video in fucking portrait mode! It looks like shit, every time!

Walker-Cam, you mean. :stuck_out_tongue:

Any one else find it funny that producers are hiring expensive CGI dudes to put in the shaky-cam effect?

De-bolded “randomly” to ironically bold something that’s already in something bolded.:smiley:
Yeah, the randomness screws with this viewer. Conversely, I find some of Gaspar Noe’s Into the Void fucking gratuitously bothersome.

IIRC it was a Pepsi commercial back in the early 90’s that first displayed this weaksaucery.

Recently I watched Syriana (2005) followed by Traffic (2000), both released at the height of the shaky-cam era.

The camera kept shaking like an epileptic on crystal meth even during the DIALOGUE scenes. Even when nothing was happening!!!

One of the best things about Game of Thrones Season 6 was that it kept shaky-cam to a minimum. You could actually follow what was happening during the battle scenes.

Wait what?
You mean it wasnt a bunch of amateur boogery nosed kids running around the yard with a vintage 1981 sony betamax camera?

I imagine walking into one of those peoples homes to find their 16:9/16:10 aperture TV stood up on its edge wondering why all their TV shows are turned on their sides

A David Lynch TV show called “On the Air” used that gag (sort of): in the early days of TV, the camera was very delicate, huge and hot and was secured to the floor. During a broadcast, a large volume of water soaked the stage and the flooring warped and curled up and the camera leaned over 90[sup]o[/sup]. People at home who were watching, set the TV on its side–except for the dingbats glued to their sofa who didn’t catch on.

I have On The Air on DVD. Love that show.