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Post #1312627

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act on instinct
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JJ's style and shaky cam in TFA and TROS
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Date created
21-Dec-2019, 12:27 AM

Missing the forest for the trees, this is not just limited exclusively to whatever degree of shimmy qualifies enough to be considered shakey cam but also JJ’s overall style. And I understand what RU.08 means, I hate the snap zooms and all these overly elaborate sweeping shots and whips with no point other than to inject a sense of artificial energy that people seem to just see as modern movie making now and not erratic, of course the camera is more mobile and versatile than it ever was before but for myself this sort of awareness of a camera takes me out of the universe in the context of Star Wars. (yes I am aware the now famous digital snap zoom started with AotC)

RU.08 said:

DominicCobb said:

I mentioned that one before. It’s one of the only moments in the entire film when the camera does that. The fact that that’s your only example does not help your case.

It’s not the camera at all, it’s intentional. This is what it would look like if stabilised:

https://imgur.com/a/JSvlGwk

I would avoid this example though, I wouldn’t say there’s inappropriate camera shake in ESB when asteroids are hitting the falcon, similar in this scene from TFA the falcon seems to be having a rocky ride, in your stabilized version now bb-8 is strangely wobbling around for no reason.