Bill Davis
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[Herb Sevush] “I think you’d have to ask them what they got out of the experience beyond networking with others, which is something that can happen while apprenticing in the business just as well.”
Oh, of course. And that whole “Opie” thing clearly wasn’t enough for Mr. Howard. Plus I’m sure his “network” in Hollywood just needed a few more doors open before he could succeed…
OTOH, I suppose it’s just barely possible that he felt that an organized curriculum put together by people who had actually studied how to efficiently sequence learning and had a pedagogy, developed over time, that had been tuned for effectiveness might be a smarter play.
Oh heck no. That’s crazy talk. Learning is unlike ANYTHING else. Putting it in a structure totally KILLS it.
How silly of me to think otherwise.
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[Bob Zelin] “I am referring to things like “film school”
based on my experience of seeing kids whose parents spend more than most of us “Of course, how silly of me.
Think of how much better off the industry would have been if…
George Lucas,
Martin Scorsese,
Joss Whedon ,
Terrance Malick
David Lynch
Darren Aronofsky
Chen Kaige
Joel Cohn
Francis Ford Coppola
Tim Burton…and legions more had just decided to save all the wasted film school money THEY invested and just “figured it all out” all on their own like the really smart folks.
Heck, the dumbest one was probably crazy Ron Howard. Surely he could have totally just ABSORBED his skills growing up on set. Surely going to (shudder) Film School was likely an utter waste of time for him.
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[greg janza] “Bill, if you’ve been in the video business for 30 years you should have a skin as thick as an alligator by now.”
About many, many things absolutely.
About disrespect to educators after the way the US has generally turned public teachers into third class citizens over the past three decades , not so much.
It’s particularly acute right now, considering the level of respect the folks she now works with in Bejing exhibit, compared to every US school system she has brushed up against.
If you have decent public schools where you live, support them and the people who work in them. Because the way things appear to be going right now, public education in the US is being quietly and systematically gutted.
I fear we will rue the day we let this happen.
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Also, this used to be far more difficult when nearly everything was CRT tubes playing NTSC standard interlaced content back.
Today, most flat panel screens are progressive and if you feed them appropriately, you often find little to no scan line issues.
Basically, a quick test with the camera (and a dependably accurate monitor and/or scope tool to judge things with) and you may discover you have no issues at all!
Things have REALLY changed in this area in the past decade or so.
Good luck.
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But that’s not a failure of a camera. It’s the failure of a shooter.
Give an unschooled knucklehead a Millennium DXL and they’ll produce crap footage 100% of the time.
Give a skilled shooter an iPhone – and you’ll typically get exceptional results that can easily stand toe to toe with the best of the general purpose cameras of yesterday.
Why? Because the smart shooter comes to understand both the capabilities and limitations of the device. And work to maximize their results within its abilities.
Sure a better camera will let a better camera operator address edge case anomalies and come away from a marginal shooting situation with better results.
But turn a modern RED, a DSLR, or an iPhone at the same beautiful scene – and you’ll very likely come away with three different equally beautiful recordings. Modern camera ALL easily get you to 90% of the way to the goal of understanding and appreciating it’s essence as a beautiful scene.
That’s just the world we live in today. The Delta is decreasing between them. Sure, that last 10% which is a stew of precision, fine control, and ease of use is both costly and CRAZY hard to get past – and there are times when a “serious” camera will get you much closer, faster to closing that gap – particularly in production setting. But the truth is, most of the “code” to capturing and storing digital versions of real world scenes is cheaper and easier to access than it’s ever before been in human history.
And the Drone mounted GoPro or an iPhone in a climbers pocket – that can reach a stunning vista inexpensively is often superior to a 30lb Red Rig that can’t.
That’s how I see it. YMMV.
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Interesting.
Bob’s swatted at me, by name, maybe half a dozen times here.
I do the same thing once – and it’s of concern?
Sorry, not interested in tilted playing fields.
If it’s kosher for him to call me out for a posted opinion – it’s should be the same in return.He’s a big boy. He can certainly take the at least the same level of criticism he’s been willing to dish out. That’s how this forum has always operated.
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[Bob Zelin] “”Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach, teach gym””
Hey Bob. I know it’s a “movie joke” but the fact that you interjected this thought here, makes you an idiot. Seriously.
Here’s why.
My wife is a former instructional specialist for a large school district.
She now has a side hustle teaching english to kids in China via telepresence.
She gets up at 3:30am 4 days a week due to the time difference.
She does this, because she LOVES being a teacher. And missed it terribly since society doesn’t value this skillset like it once did.And with crap posts like this – you’re perpetuating that “joke.”
This morning, she was live on-line again, administering a final “level test” to a sweet little girl in Shanghai.
After the girl passed her tests (as hoped), she and my wife got to spend a pre-arranged half hour having an impromptu tea party and reading a new Diary of a Wimpy Kid English book out loud to each other to celebrate said sweet little girl’s success.Education – one on one – across the PLANET connected by two things. Lindas hard won, high level teachers skills as a former large school district instructional specialist – which is the background lubricant which makes her EFFECTIVE with initially shy, unsure students like this sweet little girl.
And global technology that was almost exclusively invented by people who generally had to be EDUCATED in order to attain the skills to invent it.So I’m looking at that quote you so blithely posted above – and, (let me make this clear, again) sending you an electronic loud and distinctly articulated FU.
In my world, those who can actually teach well … are the front line between civilization and anarchy.
The “exceptions” like Jobs and Gates in this, are NOT the rule. The RULE is the rule.
And quality education making a positive difference in anyone’s life is the single most dependable rule of them all.
Period.
Oh, and teaching “GYM” today, is something neither you, nor I, nor most reading this thread would be allowed to do — not without a boatload of training in exercise physiology. Because like everything else — times have changed.
Being an ex- jock is no longer the key skill to getting a position teaching in a school athletic department today. Oddly, it takes EDUCATION now.
Go figure.
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[Bernard Newnham] “I don’t know about anyone else, but I find myself lost for words.
Bernie”
At the strategy – or that someone here might have actually had one?
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[Bernard Newnham] “One or more of us seems to have lost the plot – could be me as I’m the oldest.
“You sure? A lot of us here are a lot older than folks probably think.
You can spot them often, as anyone conditioned over some years to comfortably write in strings longer than 144 characters…
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[Herb Sevush] “While there’s no success like failure, failure ain’t no success at all – (i believe i didn’t originate that.)”
Nice.
But it still misses the overall truth.
There are always failures on the path to success. Always.
The only probative concern is if those failures stop a company, or encourage it to improve.
In this case, I think the results this whole thread addresses – speak for themselves.
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