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Old 06-16-2008, 03:53 AM
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Roderick Usher, I have a question for you

I'm asking you since you're in the movie business.

Who is responsible for keeping the mic/boom out of the shot? Whoever M. Night Shyamalan hired, he needs to stay away from that person.

I went to see The Happening yesterday, and in about a dozen shots you could see the mic/boom. Totally destroyed the movie for me.
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Old 06-16-2008, 05:16 AM
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I'm asking you since you're in the movie business.

Who is responsible for keeping the mic/boom out of the shot? Whoever M. Night Shyamalan hired, he needs to stay away from that person.
After reading a few reviews I'm thinking M. Night should stay away from making movies.
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Old 06-16-2008, 05:51 AM
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After reading a few reviews I'm thinking M. Night should stay away from making movies.

It's sad, because I LOVED "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Well, I didn't LOVE "Signs", but I liked it. I really think his 15 minutes are up.
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Old 06-16-2008, 05:58 AM
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Boom in the SHOT! we used to play that as a drinking game - it adds excitement to lots of low budget flicks and makes you pay close attention!

edit: and for the record it is a "Boom Operator" who is in charge of the boom mic
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For me its a slightly different story.

I absolutely adore Unbreakable. I think it could easily displace any of the movies in my Horror Top 20 (maybe 15), should I sit down to write them. Its a gorgeous movie, with a premise and climax which kicks some serious ass!

The Sixth Sense is second for me, but not by much.

I thought Signs was a largely decent effort, spoiled by the rubbish ending which totally took the movie away for me.

I need not say anything about The Village. Its a well-known fact in HDC about my relationship with THAT movie.

Lady in the Water held a very interesting premise. And I thought it held some potential for the middle 30 odd-minutes. But the rest was so downhill and full of rubbish, that the movie sucked, with a capital S.

And now from what I have been hearing about The Happening, (plus the fact that one of my friends went to watch it and came back totally disappointed) I will be skipping this one.


I think the appreciation he got for the first two movies has made him a filmmaker who is trying too hard to please the masses. If he sat down and tried to make a horror movie HIMSELF, he might succeed...


...eventually...



...maybe?
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Old 06-16-2008, 06:09 AM
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Boom in the SHOT! we used to play that as a drinking game - it adds excitement to lots of low budget flicks and makes you pay close attention!

edit: and for the record it is a "Boom Operator" who is in charge of the boom mic

But who's responsible for making sure it doesn't show up in the final presentation?
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But who's responsible for making sure it doesn't show up in the final presentation?
Well, there's a lot of blame to spread around there- the camera operator should notice it when setting up the shots and call it to someone's attention.

The editor would notice it when editing.

But naturally the producer would say hell no, we're not reshooting all those shots!
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Well, there's a lot of blame to spread around there- the camera operator should notice it when setting up the shots and call it to someone's attention.

The editor would notice it when editing.

But naturally the producer would say hell no, we're not reshooting all those shots!

Interesting. Thanks, neverending. You'd be watching a scene, and all of a sudden, you'd see this "thing" come into view at the top of the screen. It happened so many times that eventually you stop paying attention to the movie waiting for it to happen again.
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I read somewhere that its got to do with the framing of the movie after the fact

the boom mike you see shouldnt be visible when viewing the movie.

in otherwords .. the boom wasnt actually protruding into the space that was was intended for viewing.
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Old 06-16-2008, 07:01 AM
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peter jackson made people basically the same height look as if they had a 3 foot height difference.

the Wachowski brothers bled green into every "Inside the Matrix" scene of those movies

Michael Bay made it look liuke there were 60 foot tall robots that changed into vehicles.


How fuckign hard is it to scrub out a boom mic?
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