Let's talk about Shaky Cam

Film / Animation
Published on Feb 4, 2022
Support the channel: http://patreon.com/rossp. I hate the overuse of shaky cam and fast editing as much as anyone, but I understand why their use has become so prevalent in action films today. Watch the video to find out the sad reasons shaky cam exists. Turn on closed captions to have each film's title labelled as you watch it.

Yes, they did have 26 hour days: if you start for example on a Monday at 8am and don't finish until Tuesday at 10am, that is a 26 hour day. From this interview: https://sabotagetimes.com/tv-film/the-raid-director-gareth-evans-interviewed

Gareth Evans: "The final scene is a punishing two on one fight and features over 6 minutes of constant action. For every minute of action screen time we’d need around a day and a half shooting time. I wanted 12 to 15 days to do this one scene but we were working to a tight budget and timeline so we had just eight days. We worked to a shooting schedule of 14 hours filming a day but with all the preparation required each day our shortest was 17 hours and the longest hit 26 hours."