Shaky Cam - Your Thoughts? (Forked Thread: The new Star Trek movie is...)

[Plane Sailing]

It's like CGI - when you don't really notice it, while still being there, the effect is working well. If you notice it, you've done it wrong

I agree - Jurassic Park was really excellent CGI work, as it seemed real. Forrest Gump was truly excellent because there were some scenes when it was only after the event that I realised that they must have used CGI because Tom Hanks just couldn't get that good at table tennis.

I like the BSG 'hunting and focusing camera' effect in some of the space scenes because that is reasonably 'me looking through a camera', and it isn't overused in other situations.

I hated it throughout Bourne Identity 2 & 3 and it completely spoilt the films for me by making everything jerky and obscuring what is going on.

I've not seen Star Trek yet, I'm hoping that it is done well there - a number of people here seem to think so, and my hopes are pretty high as a result.

Cheers

 

[Mallus]

Colour me an old fuddy-duddy...

How old are we talking? This style came into being around the middle of the 19th century . It's considered one of the hallmarks of the modern novel. A cutting edge literary technique it ain't.

I would give up on any book very quickly if the writing style were like that.

I'd bet you just don't notice it (when it's done right).

 

[Brown Jenkin]

How old are we talking? This style came into being around middle of the 19th century .

Well there are accounts of me dating back as early as 1692.

It's considered one of the hallmarks of the modern novel. A cutting edge literary technique it ain't.


I'd bet you just don't notice it (when it's done right).

I don't read much of the modern stuff, and even Sci-Fi I haven't really bothered ready much past the 90s. I am not an English professor (unlike my father) and don't pay much attention to writing styles.