Not quite an interview, but a piece to camera I did whereby I locked-off the front-main camera and used handheld to get another angle AND more intensive shots of eyes and mouth.
The 2 angles provided for a neat way of intercutting from descriptive narrative by the speaker to him making a specific point OR a side statement. I colour graded the 2 cameras. No.2 to a wash-grey-red and had the main, No1 slightly Saturated with a black restore Fx. It added to the whole narrative and provided a stylish way into the body of the work which was being described by the speaker.
So, and as you are asking about SINGLE camera work, then maybe the clue here is to truly TRULY listen to the words and identify a change in emphasis - this would proffer a meaning to any colour grading. Changes in ColGrad for the sake of it, relies heavily on the viewer accepting and unaware that there is only one camera. The notion underpinning the lie here is that colour grading is being employed to suggest that there are 2 cameras - when clearly there wasn't. However, it can and does work.
As per the other thread here relating to "camera-wobble" for the sake of it, what HAS become de rigueur relies heavily on the uninitiated being accepting of it and not just downright P-offed by it all. Personally - this for the other thread - I liked the immediacy of the Bourne Ulti. It kept my attention and drew me threw its workings - now watched 4 times! But maybe this IS because i was brought up during the period of the Vietnam War and TV film footage had that lexicon reality about it that I must have carried forward today. I should think likewise for Paul Greengrass.
How we deconstruct any ANY artwork and then reassemble it for the casual./interested viewer/consumer is always gonna be fraught with danger and questionable artistic validity - well, no change there then!!!?
C0olour changes with a single camera - why not? But doing it for narrative reasons will assist in carrying it off. Can it be badly done? Oh yes!!! - And what DOES badly done mean? Apart from what I said above, it is where the casual onlooker SEES the camera work and has stopped being moved/enthused/scared/turned-on by exactly WHAT is being said. - Of course, maybe it is a discourse on the use of Colour Grading with a single camera .. then it would have perfect relevance.
Grazie
Last edited by Marc Peters; 02-13-2008 at 07:57 AM.
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