Saturday, February 22, 2014

Taxi 2x18 What Price Bobby - One of the greatest television sit com scenes ever, Susan Sullivan guest stars opposite Jeff Conaway on Taxi.

The Jeff Conaway / Susan Sullivan final scene from the Taxi Episode "What Price, Bobby?", has to be one of the most memorable sit com scenes ever filmed. 

The entire episode is terrific, but this final scene just scores a knock out. Congrats to all who made this scene happen, Mr. Conaway probably never got the fame this one scene alone should have brought him.  I apologize but for some reason blogger won't allow me to display the video from the 16 minute mark to the end, however if you click the link I think it will start at the 16 minute mark.

http://youtu.be/8nTbiSXC-zY?t=16m

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Kate Upton One Ups em in Zero Gravity G-Spot Video.

In case you ever get a chance to go up in a zero gravity plane with Kate Upton, a couple of suggestions. Less people for starters.

Second, so we can all appreciate Kate's Flight of the Condors (so to speak), why not affix some video cameras with suction cups to the airplane fuselage so that they remain perfectly in sync with the background during Kate's flight of fancy.

There's something else they could have done which would have been hilarious but that one is gonna cost someone before it is revealed, ha ha.



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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

NBC 2014 Olympic Women's Downhill Features Poor Camera Positioning.

(update Feb. 16, 2014), Was watching the next female downhill race, the Giant Slalom and noticed the announcer raving over the moving overhead wide shot. Sure, it's a cool, DISTANT shot, how about a split screen where we see that shot and also see a close-up shot of THE LEANS. What a shame, these women were shortchanged first by a course that still had some way too tight turns, 7 of the first 8 skiers did not finish the course, then they were shortchanged by lack of closer, eye level shots of them making their leans as they come towards camera from above eye level to eye level. The below eye level shots towards us SUCK.)

I was just now watching the NBC 2014 Olympics women's downhill race and within seconds realized something was wrong.

I Had no expectation of finding something wrong nor looking to find something wrong, but having well over 20 years of camera and editing experience, I did find something.

Capturing the drama of downhill racing is less likely when the camera lingers too long on high and wide camera angles that linger too long on the backside of the downhill racers. 

Capturing downhill drama means seeing the downhill action come towards us. We need to see the dramatic angle defying racer leans that keep both the racer upright while gaining speed at the same time, and we need to see it coming towards us. Whether we see the leans or not, downhill racers are doing them, so why not see them?

Dare I ask "If a downhill racer does gravity defying leans but the camera does not show them, did they make a sound?" 

But the camera coverage was wanting in other ways as well. Even when we did see the women skiers coming towards us, the camera angles were almost always higher than the downhill action they were capturing, and this is claustrophobically unacceptable.

I understand the difficulty in posting cameras along a downhill mountain race course that is 1.69 mile long, however, the skiers are giving it there all, why isn't the camera coverage?

Was the poor camera coverage caused by the last minute manipulation of the course because it was discovered to be too fast and too dangerous by the first skiers to try the course?

No matter how hard an athlete tries, or how well they perform, if the camera is not fairly capturing their efforts, it does tend to mute the sound of their performance.

If it had been for a first ever first place tie, the buzz surrounding the downhill would most likely have been minimal specifically because of the questionable camera positioning along the course.

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