Dragging my Video Camera Down the Front Steps : 30 Years of Unconventional Camera Movements from the Vtape Collection : An Essay, a Speculation, a Set of IdeasTools Shipman, John. Dragging my Video Camera Down the Front Steps : 30 Years of Unconventional Camera Movements from the Vtape Collection : An Essay, a Speculation, a Set of Ideas. Toronto, Ont.: Vtape.
Abstract (English)"Anxious, thoughtful video artists hear many contradictory whispers about how they might position and move a video camera. Visual memories of camera movement from the hours, days and months of watching commercial television and movies disturb their optical unconscious. Whispers pursuing them range from levelness, verticality, and not crossing the index vector line, to the conventions of various genres, and other axioms on camera positions and movements. Altogether they form a formidable presence and usually an effective predictor of camera positioning and movement. Perhaps the loudest whispers are the ones about levelness and verticality — the viewers' expectations about the relationship between the projected image and the Centre of the Earth." -- Curator's website.
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