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Author Topic: Zooming in movies - useless and annoying or not? Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-10-2004 07:36 PM                     the ultrascope was the first with a rear element anamorphic element the french franscope was a front element design it was used under the name MegaScope I believe by Hammer for many of there films I was told that Berthiot made the glass for it but that is all shrouded in lots of myths and mist  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-11-2004 04:28 AM                        zooms have their place in film vocabulary. usually they signal a focussing of attention on part of the film frame. a dolly-in does this too, but also moves the p.o.v. closer to, or into the action. whether this additional effect is desired can determine which technique is appropriate. a focus pull can also direct attention, if the objects in the frame are at different depths. the iris-in was used a lot in silents but is pretty dead nowadays. babe is the last film i can think of that uses this, and it has a very retro feel. night of the hunter has a good one. live television uses zooms for their convenience, and this association indirectly gives zooms a connotation of "live". it's part of their cultural baggage. maybe this is what miracle was going after. more likely, the director just wanted to literally imitate the look of the action as most people saw it at the time, on tv. or maybe he was lazy and didn't put a lot of effort into it. (i didn't see this film.) but i have noticed that whenever i see depictions of football games on tv or in movies, where we are placed in the midst of the action, these scenes on one level just don't have the ring of truth to me, because that's not how i see it on tv. carl  |  IP: Logged Liam Utley Film Handler Posts: 42 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2003 posted 02-11-2004 07:31 PM                    There was a very good use of zoom in "Wayne's World". EXTREME CLOSE UP..... Whhhhhooooooooaaaa.....  |  IP: Logged

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