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Automavision, am I crazy or is every article wrong???

posted 17 years ago by Muchi
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I just saw the film and had a great time. The audience I was in laughed and laughed and laughed. Anywho I wanted to find out more about the Automavision process and how it worked. Every review I have been able to find describes it as so
"This entails choosing the best possible fixed camera position and then allowing a computer to choose when to tilt, pan or zoom." http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1878115,00.html

Now am I crazy or was there pretty much no tilting, panning or zooming in the film except for the few hand operated shots from outside the office looking into the windows when Lars is narrating?
The way I saw the film the framing appears to be quite random and locked off. Then there are frequent cuts to other shots which might be from a higher angle, tighter, cutting off a persons body etc. So what I am saying is that Automavision randomly frames up the shot, locks off, and then they shoot a take. During the take there is no zooming, panning or tilting.
Does anyone else see it this way or was I just not paying attention? Did anyone see any zooms, pans or tilts apart from those shot outside of the office building??
Answer please as it's driving me mad.

[–] Betamax1000 17 years ago

Hi uhm, I don't want you to be driven mad so even though it's been a while since I saw the movie I'll try to answer you: you're 100% right. The camera is put in a fixed position, the computer zooms, frames, tilts and pans at "random" and then the scene is shot.

[–] ihateeverything 17 years ago

Well then that makes sense because I thought the same thing as the original poster. I thought this was a very interesting way to shoot it. I really liked that aspect.

[–] peter-hjorth 15 years ago

Dear Muchi

There are a errors in just about every article published about automavision.
The system works as follows :

1. Camera is placed in room with actors and pointed at them ("nullert") wich mean a zero displaced position.

2. Automavision is calculated with random YX movement, pan, tilt, zoom, stop.

3. A take is shot (without moving camera)

4. For every take camera is reset to zero position and a new automavision calculation must be made.

and so on...

Peter Hjorth
Automavision Developer