The Secrets of Movie Making
leisure: Is it worth it?
Wouldn’t it be easier just to load one’s camera, check focus and exposure, make sure composition and the expression of the subject are good – and just shoot? Just as one does with still pictures?
Just like still pictures! The ghost of still-picture psychology hovers around many beginning motion-picture cameramen – and logically, for most of us shot stills years before we took up the movie camera. So let’s get the straight facts of the matter.
Operating a motion-picture camera with still-camera technique will get you pictures all right; if you are a competent still cameraman those pictures no doubt will be “good” in the sense of being well exposed, nice and sharp, probably well composed, even lively.
But without pictorial continuity, they will not be motion pictures. They will be
