Re: [Avid-L2] Re: please expand - circle takes

Our experience is the exact opposite, and it's one of the reasons we
use 16GB cards on our RED cameras, that mentality comes back. In fact
we control that by having an agreed globlal data budget, with a known
penalty rate if it exceeds it.

Ian Wilson
Colortape Productions
Ian@colortape.tv
0418 327 082
Via iPhone

On 05/10/2009, at 1:16 PM, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:

>
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Hollands <johnhollands@...>
> wrote:
>
>
> << Could you take a minute and explain more about "can't edit a
> movie with
>> only circle takes".>>
>
> I can't answer for David, but i can guess. One of the things I
> miss most about film was that it forced you to think. The costs of
> processing meant that you had to visualize what you wanted. You had
> to get a group of talented professionals to understand your vision.
> Then you didn't shoot until you were ready. This gave us folks like
> Hitchcock who could stand in front of the lens when they were
> shooting a part of the scene he didn't want from that angle. And
> Clint Eastwood who can nail it in just a few takes.
>
> Now folks are learning in the "shoot the hell out of everything
> and hopefully we'll have something to make a movie out of" approach.
> So no, in this new world you can't rely upon "circled takes" as the
> old school of try to shoot only what you need is gone forever.
>
> The good news for post production folks is that it puts more
> work in our world. The bad news is that the quality of the final
> product seems to suffer more often than not.

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