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Likewise, the film itself comments on the very process of filmmaking. The aesthetic of Coppola's Dracula reaches into the past for vintage camera tricks like motion reversal and in-camera multiple exposures, smoke and mirrors from a bygone era of cinema. Roman Coppola, cinema scion and visual effects director, explained, "There were a lot of Victorian parlor amusements that were optical tricks that developed into film. A lot of stage magicians were the first to buy projectors and cameras. Our inspiration was the fact that it would be unique to use techniques that are inexpensive and fresh and that...
...release, This Note's For You, Neil Young took a lyrical stab at Eric Clapton, who sold his song to Michelob Beer for a high-profile commercial. At the end of his video for the title track, Young thrust a beer can before the camera, spinning it around to reveal the words: "Sponsored by nobody...
Ross Perot likes to punctuate his crisp prescriptions for complex problems by eyeballing the TV camera sternly and intoning, "It's that simple." Yet little about Perot himself matches that terse description. As his bizarre charges of Republican dirty tricks detonated across the political landscape last week, the dominant facet of Perot's makeup became increasingly clear: he is an incurable conspiracy monger who espies plotters in every thicket and easily persuades himself that some of his wildest suspicions are true...
Predictable plot aside, the filming (Tak "You Should be Ashamed" Fujimoto) and editing (David "Albatross" Brenner) provide an educational experience for the filmmaker-to-be. Unexpected zooming and random camera angles reminiscent of home video abound. Let's see how many different shots we can get of two people kissing in a doorway...or is it two different doorways?...or is it in a subway station...
...explain exactly what a coordinator would do. And when former Reagan adviser Edward Rollins ran into Baker and asked whether he was going to stay on through 1993, Baker replied enigmatically, "I'm going to Wyoming." Known for coveting face time on television, he has rarely been captured on camera in recent months. When Baker emerged briefly for spin-control duty after the first debate, his main concern seemed to be distancing himself from the sinking ship. "The White House chief of staff," he volunteered, "is not the campaign chairman...