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These two volumes build a comprehensive language of dolly and crane moves, and look at some fundamentally different ways to approach scenes than most of us have learned.
1. introduction
2. why storyboarding doesn't work
3. thinking in parallel
4. thinking in keyframes
5. thinking backwards
6. script staging: parallel staging and keyframes
7. pan: keyframe to keyframe
8. pan: reframe and regroup
9. pan: start on, reveal, end on
10. blocking-transitions
11. pan: search, shift, swish
12. pan: hand-off
13. parallax and the value of foreground
14. track: coordinating foreground
15. track: keyframe to keyframe
16. track: keyframes on opposite sides of the line
17. track: deep staging to deep staging
18. track: early and late arrival into keyframe
19. track: parallel
20. track: start on, reveal, end on
(about 92 minutes)
1. track: hand-off
2. track: opening and closing space
3. track: personal and impersonal
4. track: back parallax and unrest
5. track: regroup
6. track: reframe
7. track: timed master move
8. track: master push
9. track: close push
10. track: low push, high push
11. track: pull
12. track: converge and counter
13. track: pivot
14. track: pivot-reveal
15. track: around
16. pan and track: rack focus
17. boom and crane
18. crane: keyframe to keyframe, parallel
19. crane: start on, reveal, vertical converge
20. crane: pivot, pivot-reveal
21. crane: low/high push, high/low push
(about 96 minutes)
This product was added to our catalog on July 11, 2005
This title is in the Film::Camerawork category
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Average rating (4 ratings):
Reviewer: Michael P.
Rating: 
I have been a Cinematographer (18 yrs) and Director (7 yrs) for over 25 years. I found these 2 DVDs (set) extremely helpful and enlightening in figuring out complex scene shooting. When one has a scene to shoot with 3 or more actors things can get really hairy and a good director would want to shoot this type of scene with as few shots as possible. Using a "moving master" and 1 or two more moving medium or close-ups while moving the actors around in the scene one can create amazingly efficiently shot scenes. These two instructional DVDs are very helpful in learning how to do that.
Reviewer: Richard U.
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Grade A". Very infomative, cut to the chase easy to understand, great directotor.
Reviewer: Juan A.
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The whole series of Hollywood Camera Work (6 DVDs in all) is a must for cinematographers. It provides you with an understanding on how to use the camera for perspective, composition, blocking, and ultimately, editing and shooting your final product. It also explains the logic behind camera angles, camera movement, and focus. You will be grateful that you invested the time in watching it.
Reviewer: Ian P.
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Although the "key Frames" concept is important, the set-ups that this DVD suggests are mostly impractical and require the dolly and actors movement to coincide, rather than the illusion that camera is directed by actor movement. The audience will see right through these set-ups- and despite what the authors may claim, are not necessarily time-saving. Do yourself a favor- hire a qualified dolly grip who can do compound moves on dance floor, and experienced DoP and Camera Operator.