If you think you can do better, by all means go shoot some porn of your own. As an alternative, in my experience some directors are better about this than others--go spend money on their work instead. Otherwise, the least you could do is frame your criticism with some respect. I'm thinkin' you'll get better results that way.

Mike L.

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Unfortunately, the average porn camera operator hasn't the foggiest clue what it's called or when to use it or why. The only reason they use it is because their cheap $800 camcorders don't have a wide angle lens and the motel or apartment they're shooting in is too small for them to back up sufficiently for them to frame a shot side-to-side. A diagonal shot simply gives them more screen real estate.

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Personally I agree dutch tilts and sex don't generally mix
unless you're doing the Mike Ninn thing. I can clear up the reason for this unnecessary camera behavior though. You can fit more action corner to corner than straight across. This is all predicated on the wideness of your lense. A .5 will give you the width but it also comes with bulbus nose close ups, a .6/5 lessens this sometimes undesirable effect but makes it much harder to fit head to toe, hence corner to corner.

Hope this helps.....

Cal444
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I think I saw you lugging a ton of equipment out in front of the Venetian on the final day of the expo. But you seemed very much about your business there, and I wasn't quite sure it was you. Though the baseball cap was probably a giveaway.

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Thanks for the response, it's much appreciated.

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He failed to see the humor in this and told me to do a standard roll. Made me laugh my ass off knowing that anyone
taking the time to read the tails would be cocked to the left.

WHATEVER!!!!!!!

Cal444
Somewhere, yeyh that was me at the Venetian, fear and loathing! Took them 7 hrs to check me out and they lost my car for two hours but to be honest I really didn't mind because there was a never ending stream of Yummm Yummm
to salivate over.

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Anyway, on topic, I don't think the diagonal automatically sucks. Like cal444 says, they allow more girl to be captured in the frame, which is a good thing in my book. Not that I'd want the entire scene done that way, mind you.

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I ecshew anything that calls attention to the movie-making. Party this is pure pragmatism. I don't have the panache of a Fincher sort of visual stylist, so why would I call attention to my rather mundane visual style. The other part of this is that I personally prefer films that are constructed in a way that lets me forget I'm watching a screen, and trick me into thinking I'm looking through a magic window, or better yet, that I'm right there. I aspire to do the same thing in my work.

-T.C.

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Water seeks it's own level.

Cal444
Somewhere

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-T.C.

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Edited by - TonyC on 1/27/2004 5:33:37 PM

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It's from the first scene (actually outtakes) from PXP's Euro Girls Never Say No 3. Well, with a standing DP and a woman on kneeling on the floor, there was a lot of action to catch in the frame.

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-T.C.

Edited by - TonyC on 1/27/2004 5:37:19 PM

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-T.C.

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All too often I get nothing but still shots from a still photographer doing double duty as a videographer who shoots in one position for two seconds, drops the camera, takes 30-45 seconds to reposition, shoots for another 3-5 seconds, drops the camera, wastes more time moving to a new position for yet another really short clip. The really funny part is that a half hour or so into the scene, the director asks the video tech how much footage he's got so far. Even though the tech replies that he's got 35 minutes, nobody but me knows that only five minutes of that footage is usable.

Andy

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•As the producer you can be sure only to hire cameramen and directors that are as passionately committed to the Art of Porn as you are!

•As the producer, instead of allowing days (hours?), you can give your self weeks to cut a 90 minute film!

It will be the dawning of a new era of cynisism-free and shame-free porn! Just take this one bit of advice from another producer -- do it with other people's money!

-T.C.

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