Well, "mr.cameraman," it's your "expert" claim against the "expert" claim of the original blogger I cite. So, we have to decide which to believe, you or the source I cited? It's a he-said/he-said argument at this point.

 "Why wasn't the shot wider? Too many cables and production clutter all over the floor, peripheral crap that doesn't belong in the shot..."

Then why wasn't all that "peripheral crap" in the way when the Obama and Clinton interviews were shot?

"You have no idea how much work, thought, and detail goes into shoots like these, there is absolutely no time or headspace to think about putting messages into camera angles."

Really.  And the MSM is objective.  You may be an entirely honest and honorable cameraman, but I'm sorry, I'm having trouble buying it that there are not ulterior motives in nearly everything the MSM does.  How many supercilious, hounding questions did Gibson ask Clinton and Obama?  Not your job, I guess.

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I may be naive, but my understanding is that many of these anchors are prima dona's, and they DO make demands, and their demands are usually met.

Nothing personal Mr.Cameraman, but why should I believe you? I don't know who you are, or if you are what you claim to be. And if you are, you may well be part of the problem - hardly one to be trusted to be honest and forthright in their integrity.

Anyway, firsthand accounts from people who have worked with these ego-tripper's would lead me to believe that they absolutely can, and do, make stupid, petty, decisions like this, and that their crew geneflucts as they carry out the demands.

I may be wrong, but I wouldn't bet on it.

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you seem like a very intelligent person...surely you would know by now you cannot win...every person in the country ,besides conservatives of course,hate this woman although we really do not know a whole lot about her..what is wrong with our political system...what happened to the time whe people running for office had to explain in great detail what they stood for instead of talking points that sometimes are simply not true

Cameraman,

Cut the crap pal, “IF” you were the shooter or a technician YOU did not make the choice. Unless you are shooting “down and dirty news” from a police scanner don’t try to make anybody believe that this interview was “Thrown” together and you just happened to get there first.

 This was the most anticipated interview in the world. Youcan better believe that the network had producers and directors fighting over this one. They analyzed it to death and then created their game plan to shoot the interview based on which way the owner of the network was politically leaning. After much debate they chose the appropriate producer for this segment and the appropriate director. And this was done weeks in advance.

 The crew did what they do. The 1st AC pointed his camera using the format, angles , lenses and staging that was dictated to him by the director. The 2 AC set the cables. The sound man was rolling separate sound and the gaffer set the lights according to what the director dictated and I can assure you that ( if you were the shooter) YOU did not light either of these subjects.

 That news station must be feeling nervous about this woman because besides the obvious choice of lenses, made to make this woman look small, and the very very poor choice of framing where she looks like a little black cloud on Charlie’s horizon; there is the choice of background.

 When Mr. Obama was interviewed they made the choice to interview him in an upscale restaurant, him wearing a blue suit, pink gel on the lights which brings out the red in the back ground. (We know the lights were gel'd because it also made the table cloths and subjects look happy and rosy as opposed to the table farther in the back with a white table cloth on it) The white shirt collar over the blue suit in fact enhanced the red, white and blue theme. Mr. Obama’s chair was turned toward the lense a bit so we can see the side of his face. Very nice. Charlie too had non-confrontational matching clothing and the background was lit so that it showed an upscale environment with no source light to draw my eye away from the candidate.

 The choice of Hilary’s environment was an environment where we think of education, possibly a non confrontational choice on the directors part because he knew he was going to light the background with an almost irritating sourcie light that would make us feel uncomfortable and pull our attention away from Hilary except for that very hot light on the top of her hair. That light makes us look for a more comforting source of light. Which we can’t find because we have something orange in the background which clashed with Charlie’s red tie. So we come away from the interview with an uncomfortable feeling.

Now lets look at Ms. Palin's interview. The first thing I notice is the light behind Charlie. Then the window light with that huge blue and red whatever it is. The background is a complete mess. Her lighting is nonexistent, his key light was not put on the proper side so when he looked in her direction his eyes did not light up; in fact they looked dark and ominous.

 Yes, the framing is a point but there are so many choices to be made here. Color, background, lights and where to put them. Key lights,choice’s of lenses and Mr. Cameraman who only hints at being the shooter but does not come out and say it because the real 1st AC will probably be suing you. Are you telling me that in this political environmentthat you and your sound guy went fishing? You did not jump on a plane and go to the next interview such as responses from political pundits about the most anticipated interview in the world?

 Are you telling me that the director of the most anticipated interview in the world doesn’t know dick about lighting, lenses and proper framing so he let YOU make the choice?

 And you have such a ridicules work ethic that you have wires strung all over the set, and equipment so people can trip over them. You actually had the sound mixer in the room? What?  Didn't his cables extend enough to put the sound mixer outside the door? And you had campaign people in the room too???

I noticed no producer or director was mentioned. And I can assure you that no producer is going to watch from the monitor outside and if he did, the director would be in the room. Also I am going to guess that the attorneys for both camps were there as well as her handlers. Oh but of course that can’t be true because the room was sooooo small and the cables took up sooo much room that ………

 Poser.

 And another thing… how is it the secret service let a stringer shoot this? Not even a union man who know’s that the proper choice for a straight interview would be pedding up or down to equal the heights of the talent?  And as we ALL know they weren’t standing! So 6’ or 5’2 would not have made that huge of a difference to a real shooter. And call the Ihop? Dude you don’t have the brains or the imagination to work in the industry if that’s the best lie you can come up with. “Me thinks he doth  protest too much” comes to mind actually. 

So Kid, take your $199. Camera back to target and stop pretending. Or yet go shoot another fishing show for your local cable station.

 I love unbiased opinions from news people. I prefer them. It makes me ill that a newsperson has to screw up his face and give you his opinion if only by the wrinkle in his brow or the scowl on his face. What ever, now we know that Charlie is more interested in making the news, or rather making up the news than reporting it.

 I don’t know who is going to win, I have no opinion about it. But I do know that using the news to deceive people is a terrible thing. It is an unforgivable thing by both political party’s. And you all know what I’m talking about. Put your information out there without all the deceptive tricks and stop causing Americans to hate other Americans.

Me too. Dealing with the leftist media can be like falling into a pit of pissed-off Rattlesnakes! 

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