You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Jan 17, 2005 5:24:10 pm PST #7338 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
brenda m - Jan 17, 2005 5:33:31 pm PST #7339 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Betsy, if you don't have a G and you need one, let me know. I'm pretty sure I have one or two extras. Of course, it will take a little time for the mail, and they're pretty cheap, so you may prefer to purchase.
Lord that gave me a turn after all the bra size talk today.
Polter-Cow - Jan 17, 2005 5:34:42 pm PST #7340 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Lord that gave me a turn after all the bra size talk today.
Good crap, the same thing happened to me!
NoiseDesign - Jan 17, 2005 5:35:43 pm PST #7341 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
Here's a site that has some definitions of film crew jobs.
Sue - Jan 17, 2005 5:38:08 pm PST #7342 of 10002
hip deep in pie
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2005 5:39:11 pm PST #7343 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't picture her or nilly doing this.
No, everyone else would be doing that. Because of the niceness (sorry Lee) vacuum.
Mmm. I'll have to ask Z. Maybe it was two dolly grips, a puller, and a DoP. Seems weird that no one gets called camera operator or cameraman. And by weird, I mean weird to someone who has no clue.
NoiseDesign - Jan 17, 2005 5:42:49 pm PST #7344 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
There can be a camera operator on many sets. At times this is the person behind the camera. Though if it's a small shoot the DP will double as their own camera op. If you want to get really crazy, I've seen more than one shoot where the scriptie (Script Supervisor) is doubling as the focus puller.
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2005 5:44:47 pm PST #7345 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But I mean this set in particular -- you've said the guy nearest the camera was a dolly grip, and the DoP wasn't at the camera, and the guy zooming and panning you said was a PA or camera assistant.
Or is the dolly grip also a camera operator, and I'm counting wrong?
NoiseDesign - Jan 17, 2005 5:47:23 pm PST #7346 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
On that set it would just depend on how they were dividing things up and on what the bulk of the shots for the shoot would be.
Typically there is a dolly grip around for all of the camera moving and mounting on vehicles and other items. If this is an overall shoot that doesn't have a lot of that they may just have a camera operator. Most of it just depends on the size and budget of the film.
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2005 5:59:46 pm PST #7347 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In the case where there is a dolly grip controlling the camera's location in space, a focus puller controlling the focus -- a) we call the guy controlling the camera's direction in space the PA/camera assistant and b) there's no camera operator?
I guess the question I meant to ask lo so many posts ago is that I don't get the term "camera operator." Your page says "Smoothly and efficiently operates a camera during the production and keep the frame composed properly," but that seemed like at least two guys were doing that, and in the puller's normal operations, he'd be contributing too.
But I may just have to make peace with not being able to work it out.