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611. Directorpiece Theatre - White House Down: A Die Hard in the Rough

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How to Maintain Momentum on a Walkie Talkie Shot

McTyrning tries to use like a little creep. Not too fast, not too slow, just enough to move the background and then make sure that when you jump to the other location and shoot that shot that will edit with it, you are moving it almost identically the same speed. You feel dollies less the longer the lens is because the feeling that dollies give you comes from this aspect of visual design called parallax. If you're on a telephoto lens, you are destroying those depth cues because that parallax is not felt at all. And so he's taking advantage of that. I mean, not the first film, not the last film but just one

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