[…] the usual family films. You know, everybody waving at the camera. And then started to make little short films. I do […]
[…] getting it absolutely right, horizontal to the frame on the camera. You would go and do something else and some idiot […]
[…]g what they were doing so late, if you like top and tail with Armand & Michaela at various places in the programme. They had them just talking to camera. And we filmed that here, the first few for the series we filmed here, again, mainly early in the morning. And because that was the quietest ti[…]
[…]moured forces and so on, and the commentary will say something about the fact that this is a wonderful scene but it has actually been laid on for the camera. So, I think The World at War is kind of the gold standard of archive use that everybody should subsequently have aspired to. 1 hour […]
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[…]now, of course, the crews are mainly two but, even on news in those days, it wasn't unusual to go out as a two man crew with a set of Colortran and a camera. So those techniques have not changed a lot, as such, except the equipment has got a lot lighter.Interviewer 8:05 And the stock you[…]
[…]iver was a marvelous, yes, I Norman Swallow 38:32 agree. I got into television, from radio. I was in BBC in the North as a features producers and the sport. And again, you reminded me of this because my appointment sport, whatever was was also monopolized by Cecil, yeah, a[…]
[…]ng that a lot of them over here need to learn I think. I think the drama schools really ought to do more about teaching actors how to perform for the camera.Yes particularly sort of, where sort, stage work seem to be becoming less important. And I suppose sort of its historical as most peoples caree[…]