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I remember the first movie I saw any shaky cam in. It was used for part of one scene in the movie One Eight Seven to convey boiling rage that Mr Garfield (Samuel L Jackson) was experiencing and trying to contain. Thought it worked very well there.
I think Paul Greengrass is one of the only directors who uses it well, in the Bourne movies he did
It's one thing to use shaky cam to illustrate something shaky - like an approaching Tyrannosaurus Rex. But when the image continually bobbles around it is [30 foot high letters] ANNOYING.
Most modern television is putrid in that regard.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that the diminishing audience is related to the degradation of image stability. People might not articulate their disgust, but they won't waste time being nauseated, and will change to something else.
I certainly have stopped watching current network television, and tend to only watch the oldies.
While watching old movies, I realized how enjoyable the cinematography is. I think it is because they used every possible technique for stable imagery.
Just about every modern movie is marred by jittery, unstable imagery. It is annoying, aggravating, over-used, and frankly nauseating.
Do you dislike wobble cam, bobble cam, shaky cam, jiggle cam, nauseous cam, wandering around cam, jump cuts, etc, annoying ugly radio?
Do you dislike gawful action shots; unwatchable fight scenes; miserable editing?
We can't fire the cinematographer, director and / or producer.
What can we do to stop the madness?
STOP SHAKY CAM !
Get a tripod.
Hate shaky cam, became the in thing around when "reality" TV became big...to display "reality".
Ironically moviedom went out of their way to try to be as steady as possible with every shot,
not always possibly with movement using portable film cameras.
The "steady" cam for moving shots was invented about 1970,
Hitchcock's 1972 "Frenzy" was one of first to use steady cams for a lot of the moving shots.
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