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I'm glad there seems to be a growing backlash against this awful technique. I tried watching the new NBC series 'Medium' and while they don't use the zoom & pan method, the camera is constantly wobbling around like Anna Nicole Smith in a funhouse during an earthquake. Even intimate scenes with Patricia Arquette and her husband in bed talking are filmed with camera bobbing up & down, swaying left to right.
I sometimes get the feeling that this is the cinematic eqivalent of shaking keys at a baby. They seem to be afraid that if everything stops moving for a few seconds, we'll divert our attention elsewhere.
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