Like I hold my gat?

Submitter, just because you learned how to shoot a gun from watching 80s and 90s gang movies, doesn't mean you know how to.

plastic_cow: Like I hold my gat?



/werd

Vertical video syndrome

/obligatory

Get up close

Sometimes it's a bit uncomfortable, but videographers often invade people's space to get the best shots. You get to see the detail if you're close to the action. That said, be respectful and smart while trying to get the best shot.


"Get in people's faces but be respectful. Have your proctologist's number handy when the inevitable happens."

Zoom with your feet? No, shaky vids tick me off.

The first thing my wife shot with her smart phone was indescribable. It was just a series of jittery movements of random shots left, right, up and down. When I heard her voice saying, "is this thing on", I think I figured out what her problem was.

#2: Stick it straight up your candy ass?

/after RTFA my comment still stands

I read it as "in bed" at the end of each point.

Yep.

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My chief complaint is the lack of auxiliary microphone inputs in anything below $800. Except my Kodak Zi8, which has a stereo mic input jack. It just lacks the optics to be worth a damn.

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Yep.

Finally, this is what i came (twice) for!

"Note: For our London Eyes project, please be aware that there are rules for taking video of the sporting events at the Olympic Games. Please refer to posted signs in Olympic venues and the International Olympic Committee Web site."

Yeah, the rules are that those rights have been sold to TV networks, who have then used the acquisition of those rights to create advertising revenue for themselves. Want to post a crappy smartphone video of the racewalk to youtube? You could be subject to prosecution and ejection from the venue...

SweetSaws: SoxSweepAgain: [img.photobucket.com image 430x267]

Yep.

Finally, this is what i came (twice) for!

Someone had to do it.

Why not just use a real camera?

No, you got to flip it TURN-WAYS!

/obscure?

"Audiences can often deal with bad video as long as the audio is good. But they can't deal with bad audio even if the video is good." My main complaint with hollywood movies is the audio, especially dialogue. I can't count how many times I've had to strain to hear WTF someone was saying.

plastic_cow: Like I hold my gat?

Well... we had to drown the gat, but we saved you a couple of nice little gittens.

/not obscure, but very old

But I thought step 1 was "Cut a hole in a box"...

20/20: My main complaint with hollywood movies is the audio, especially dialogue. I can't count how many times I've had to strain to hear WTF someone was saying.

I have good hearing, but there are very few movies (and tv series) that I watch at home without closed-captioning turned on. (I'm grateful that CC is pretty much standard-issue at this point.)

the first thing I thought of when I read the headline is a martini shaker. When I see a bartender holding it vertical and bouncing up and down like some sort of hooker on someones boner, I order a beer.

Vertical Video Syndrome - A PSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

/related

depmode98: the first thing I thought of when I read the headline is a martini shaker. When I see a bartender holding it vertical and bouncing up and down like some sort of hooker on someones boner, I order a beer.

It should be stirred not shaken!

20/20: "Audiences can often deal with bad video as long as the audio is good. But they can't deal with bad audio even if the video is good." My main complaint with hollywood movies is the audio, especially dialogue. I can't count how many times I've had to strain to hear WTF someone was saying.

I'm not saying it was technically bad audio--because I'm sure it was intentional--but I had to turn-off Bob Altman's "Gossford Park", because of the technique he used that allowed the audience to hear both the ,"Upstairs", and, "Downstairs" inhabitants of the manor house, simultaneously.

Perhaps it bothered me so, because I was listening/watching on a cheap set-up, and a surround-sound would have made it less, "sound piled on-top of sound".

depmode98: the first thing I thought of when I read the headline is a martini shaker. When I see a bartender holding it vertical and bouncing up and down like some sort of hooker on someones boner, I order a beer.

Huh. Why? I'm not a bartender, but I would have thought it'd get mixed just as well in either direction.

Kazaa: 20/20: My main complaint with hollywood movies is the audio, especially dialogue. I can't count how many times I've had to strain to hear WTF someone was saying.

I have good hearing, but there are very few movies (and tv series) that I watch at home without closed-captioning turned on. (I'm grateful that CC is pretty much standard-issue at this point.)

Maybe your hearing is not as good as you think?

/use hearing aids myself.
//usually don't need CC

Also, move it around a lot and make sure you get yourself saying, "Oh my god" or "Damn!" over and over. Always scintillating.

chookbillion: Kazaa: 20/20: My main complaint with hollywood movies is the audio, especially dialogue. I can't count how many times I've had to strain to hear WTF someone was saying.

I have good hearing, but there are very few movies (and tv series) that I watch at home without closed-captioning turned on. (I'm grateful that CC is pretty much standard-issue at this point.)

Maybe your hearing is not as good as you think?

/use hearing aids myself.
//usually don't need CC

Could be he just needs a better center speaker.

/also wears hearing aids
//rarely needs CC

Smeggy Smurf: I'd settle for the operator keeping their mouth shut

Gotta love it when a perfectly adorable "baby otters in the bathtub" gets ruined by the shrill nonstop shrieking of "ooooh, who's a cute widdle baby? YOU'RE a cute widdle thing! Yes you are! You is just pweshus!" by the camera operator.

Also, if you're just recording something on video, you're not "live". You're not broadcasting a signal to anybody's television monitor. So that "comin' at you LIVE" does not apply no matter how energetically or hip you say it.

This is by far the best video ever shot with a cell phone - Vagina For $!000 Alex NSFW (18+)

A smartphone is for impromptu video. It's something you resort to because you need to record/photoghraph and it's already on you. If you're confident enough that you'll be filming that you'd consider bringing a tripod or external microphone, you might as well bring A REAL FARKING CAMERA.

Goes double for these

FTFA: Sound matters

Audiences can often deal with bad video as long as the audio is good. But they can't deal with bad audio even if the video is good. This means that you should try to make your audio as good as you can - shield your phone from the wind, interview people in less noisy spaces, etc.

And remember: the microphone in your phone is very sensitive so be sure you DO NOT SHOUT WHILE YOU ARE HOLDING PHONE NEXT TO YOUR GAPING CACOPHONOUS MAW kthxbai.

Sidehackin' is the thing to do
When it doesn't hurt to have a low IQ.
Take a life you like and a little love.
The big band prize is twenty-five bucks.
Sidehackin'll quench your danger thirst
The stupid ones always seem to come in first, yeah.

Sidehackin' is one big bash;
The favorite sport of cheap white trash.
When you're on your sidehack, make sure you don't slip;
You'll end up with five metal pins in your hip.
Lean way back 'til you scrape your butt;
Make it look like a quarter-pound of ground chuck, yeah.

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/Indirect double reference.

I've been holding my mobile sideways for years.

#1: Hold it SIDEWAYS Get an actual camera.

FTFY.

#3 If you have parkinsins, please do not shoot track and field events.

This is by far the best video ever shot with a cell phone - Vagina For $!000 Alex NSFW (18+)

So confused...

Masterstuff: #2: Stick it straight up your candy ass?

/after RTFA my comment still stands

Step #3 is Profit!

Gordon Bennett: I've been holding my mobile sideways for years.

That takes me back...

Kazaa: 20/20: My main complaint with hollywood movies is the audio, especially dialogue. I can't count how many times I've had to strain to hear WTF someone was saying.

I have good hearing, but there are very few movies (and tv series) that I watch at home without closed-captioning turned on. (I'm grateful that CC is pretty much standard-issue at this point.)

I'm getting pretty fed up with the Whisper-Everything school of acting. Movies these days are 50% whispering and 50% cacophony of aggressive foley.

We need to have a Thanksgiving weekend Telethon to raise funs to wipe out VVS.