Current techniques are still not suitable to deal with real-life situations due to, in particular, wide scene variability and the large range of camera motions.
There was, for example, the problem of where to place the eight cameras - should they be focused for wide, scene-setting shots or concentrate on the singers themselves?
I love to take in the wide scene, so my home is filled with large, panoramic-view windows from which I can gaze out at my garden and at the mountains in the distance.
The VMAs are typically rife with heavyweights (Kendrick Lamar, Katy Perry, etc). but this year's ceremony looked to tap into the wide scene of rising acts that have been dominating streaming services and social media all summer.
There are few landscape photographs in our final selection, perhaps because it is hard to draw attention to a particular ecological detail when picturing a wide scene.
This young filmmaker came in to do this movie, with a shot list that I gave him at the time — you know, mid shot, wide shot, scene of two kids — and he just basically drew it up.
This young filmmaker came in to do this movie, with a shot list that I gave him at the time you know, mid shot, wide shot, scene of two kids and he just basically drew it up.
"For this job I was provided with enough black and white film, which I had in one camera with a portrait lens". But as this would be useless for photographing the wider scenes in tiny rooms in colour as he wanted, he needed an alternative – and costly – solution.
"There was one day when I photographed almost 60 people". But over the many months he spent shooting the monochrome passport headshots, he slowly and carefully selected the wider scenes he really wanted to show, parsimoniously taking just a single colour shot of each one.
