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[Sherwood, Harrison]

>From: 	LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU

>There's also the question of camera setup.  Virtually all of the shots
>in the piece (including the balding guy) are standard look-down-the-street
>shots common in news pieces.  Red Cap, on the other hand, is different:
>he is singled out, the camera tracking *him* and him only as he walks
>along before disappearing behind the post.  That makes me think that a
>camera crew went out to find him and taped him as he walked along.  How
>else would they know enough to set up for the correct crowd scenes of 
>the other shots?

>That's why I say the Red Cap shot _looks_ right. The guy is walking down the
>street, minding his own business, don't mind me, foax, just passing through,
>oh SHIT is that camera pointed at ME, OK, don't panic, I'll just speed up
>here and step into the street, get past it, prolly just filming a
commercial...Saaaay, isn't that... a _CNN_ logo on that camera? Looks
like I've got some _phone calls_ to make...

Also, you'll notice that Red Cap is actually out of the shot for several
frames. Do you think the CNN producers would have used such a lousy
>tracking shot if they didn't ...Have To?

Observe also that the crowd shots are horribly foreshortened (anybody
say Zappa?) by a seriously long telephoto lens. All the listies who
write in saying they're seeing their favorite candidates' facial
reactions to being filmed don't realize: These people do _not_ know
they're being filmed. The cameras are blocks away. The exception is Red
Cap.
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>But, then again, that may just be what They *want* you to think!!
>
No...They want me to think I'm using a computer to talk to people
thousands of miles away. Pshaw.

Harrison
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