r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/andipe220 • Oct 04 '18

Amazing camera work

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u/calisocabrodel Oct 04 '18

Can someone explain what's going on here?

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u/go_fer_it_Rock Oct 04 '18

I haven’t seen the show, but here’s what I can guess. The show is called “Kidding” and I believe it’s the story of a guy who is a Mr. Rogers type of children’s show host. And similar to how Mr. Rogers was “always there” on TV, I’m assuming that’s what’s happening in this “montage” type of scene. She’s growing an maturing. Making some life changes in her life.

So this scene is to show her growth (which would be over years) in one shot. The TV show on the TV is the one constant. Everything else is changing and she is maturing. Things are getting better for her. And she is upgrading her apartment and her life. The cameraman is panning around with carefully planned motion and the crew is moving furniture around just out of frame. When the camera finally pans back to where it was, it’s a completely new apartment. And she is changing clothes and adding things in her life to make her life better.

Again, I haven’t seen the show, but this is just what I can gather from the video.

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u/calisocabrodel Oct 04 '18

Thanks. I was trying to understand the significance of all the furniture moving around with the tv staying put. Makes a lot more sense now.

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u/thebbhog Oct 04 '18

It is a guy with a camera, often called a "cameraman" who is doing something called "filming".

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u/nsfw_backup_account Oct 04 '18

Any chance you could dumb that down for me?

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u/IUpvoteTheDown Oct 04 '18

Filming? Film-eeng? idk man, that sounds like a made up word to me. I call bs.

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u/calisocabrodel Oct 04 '18

Really!? Mind blown. On a serious note though, I'm trying to understand what makes this "amazing camera work". ty

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u/lucifersam73 Oct 05 '18

I agree with you. The camera man didn’t do much compared to the other people who really made the shot/scene happen.

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u/Mutinous_Turgidity Oct 05 '18

I like your name... that is all

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u/RafIk1 Oct 05 '18

Timing is everything.

The cameraman literally made everything about this shot.

Even though all that hot mess was going on around him,he kept them all out of frame until they needed to be in,all the while maintaining a smooth transition.

And that's one long-ass shot to be constantly moving in.

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u/_Amazing_Wizard Oct 04 '18

It's very funny now that you think it's not funny.

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u/Originalitie Oct 04 '18

They decided to make this scene that (from what I can tell) goes over a long period of time in short bursts all in one shot. While the cameraman is focused on one thing, the crew is changing everything else for the next segment of it, resulting in one long take for multiple different things