OT: Must See Video

Someone once said to me "A good producer has three things: Good taste, a sense of humor and a GREAT rolodex."

This was the best produced platitude I've seen.

Isn't that a back handed compliment?

Sorry, but so much is made about the "artist" or its the "story." Its about how the artist uses all the tools to tell the story.

This was certainly well done but I think Oscar Wilde said it best "The imagination imitates. Critical thinking creates."

I'm tire of the starving artist syndrome "You can do so much more with less!" Well so can everyone else, get over it...

[tongue firmly planted in cheek]

Amen, Ditto, Me Too, Rah and all that. I won my Emmy with footage shot with pantyhose over the back of the lense to create texture and some pretty tight editing. Not one single complicated move in the whole thing.

I see what you're saying, Charles, and I agree to an extent. But my take was that the guy in the video says something to the effect that, "Yeah, it's a good idea to have good equipment (along with talent and supporting crew), but even if you have the best equipment, that doesn't mean you're going to get the best results." For me, I think you need good equipment to produce good stuff. For example, how many times have we seen a post in this forum (or the Motion forum) that asks "I want to do xxx. Why can't my FCP/Motion do that?" And the answer is that they don't have the right version. What if their computer can't handle that version? Then they have to get better equipment. That's just an example, and I'm trying to show both sides here...but in that case, you can't do more with less. On the other hand, like I summed up before, it's not the equipment, it's the operator.

Boy, that post makes no sense, eh? 🙂 Sorry, long day at work.

Jonathan

Geez Michelle, I hope it was a Christian dior black silk #5. Arguably the best and supposedly the basis for black pro-mist filters. I DO like the behind the lens look.

Geez Michelle, I hope it was a Christian dior black
silk #5. Arguably the best and supposedly the basis
for black pro-mist filters. I DO like the behind
the lens look.

No just plain old Wal Mart pantyhose and as the only "girl" on the production crew I had to be the supplier. This was shot in 1993 when our TV station had purchased their first AVID. There was no such thing as filters and effects per se. If you couldn't create it on a AMPEX 200 switcher, it wasn't happenin'

You wouldn't beleive how many people requested the "pond ripple" effect. Sorry, nope, not on this switcher. I could give them star wipe.

I've got to say though, it's aggravating that anyone who thinks the purchase of equipment makes them a video professional. To me it's the same thing as purchasing a stethoscope and a white coat and calling yourself a doctor.

There's no doubt that good equipment makes a difference, but to me it's not the primary factor by any means

I've got to say though, it's aggravating that anyone
who thinks the purchase of equipment makes them a
video professional. To me it's the same thing as
purchasing a stethoscope and a white coat and calling
yourself a doctor.

There's no doubt that good equipment makes a
difference, but to me it's not the primary factor by
any means

Just to clarify, I'm in agreeance with you Michelle...it's not the equipment, it's the operator.

I don't know Shane.

Alot of this is self evident.

Years ago a laser writer and PageMaker didn't make you a desktop publisher.

If people don't know that it isn't the arrows, it's the bowsman, then nobody going to persuade them otherwise.

If you can't tell a story, then you shouldn't be in video.

MTC

It's ... NOT? Dang, I've been making a living all these years doing just that...

KIDDING, but it does get easier as you go along... until a client throws you a whammy. It's the whammys that keep you on your toes.

You mean there's more??????

🙂

For the most part, you gotta tell a story.

Not just record an event.

Good example is the Mexican War documentary. Seriously, it was

I N T E R E S T I N G

The hard part is telling the story without voice overs.

is this one those elitist threads?

Maybe it is elitist, Zeb, but long, long ago some of us Army pilots said that one could tell the pilots who were short changed because they had the BIG wrist watches with a multiplicty of bezels for doing all sorts of in-flight calculations. Doubt if they even did them.

I'm still trying to figure out how you put the hose over the arrow without tearing it ... or without scratching the lens.