Maseko directed with "energy and verve," though his "struggles to capture the human drama" led to the impression that Drum was "a clunky TV movie, with awkward camera angles, wonky editing and clumsy sound recording".
Moving down the aisles he uttered some dismissive phrases like "the cute, the kitsch and the clumsy" while the camera passed often inconsequential work that was left unidentified.
On screen, especially when accompanied by clumsy, literal-minded camera work, the words flail in the uncomfortable limbo between the way people actually talk and the way ambitious, overpraised writers like to pretend they do.
"A camera is clumsy and crude.
The presentation is a delirium of desktop-editing effects, random camera angles, clumsy restagings of undramatic scenes, overlapping voice-overs and patches of whatever public-domain images came to hand, from a portrait of Galileo to "Washington Crossing the Delaware," accompanied by a soundtrack from a composer who has apparently never recovered from the inspiration of "Chariots of Fire".
It's roughly the size of an old-school pager, with a fisheye lens, battery, and memory all onboard; there are no clumsy wires leading to a camera attached to a pair of sunglasses, as there were in some older models of body camera.
IGN praised the game's exploration, saying that the ability to jump and climb "adds even more depth to exploration of different environments and distances Xenogears from being too straightforward of a traditional RPG", the only complaint being that the rotating camera is sometimes "clumsy".
In a series of skits and "Weekend Update" segments over the past two years, the cast of "Saturday Night Live" has mercilessly mocked Gov. David A. Paterson's impaired vision and presented him as an improbably clumsy figure who walks into cameras, holds charts upside down and hates New Jersey.
[Back to top] Gordon Brown has been criticised for his clumsy manner in front of the cameras, which contrasts starkly with Tony Blair's assured media performances.
You'll need a camera, and if you're clumsy, a waterproof and ruggedised snapper is ideal.
Occasionally I would take a second picture, but generally I wasn't so clumsy as to be exposing this obtrusive camera.
