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The process of FILM

Name: The process of FILM
Uploaded: 2022-11-23T16:32:00+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Tyler Wagner
Description: In this brief interview excerpt, Speaker A asks whether filmmaking essentially involves keeping the camera rolling. Speaker B confirms that, especially…

23 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief interview excerpt, Speaker A asks whether filmmaking essentially involves keeping the camera rolling. Speaker B confirms that, especially early in a career, they adopt a massive overshooting approach—shooting up to a 100:1 ratio of raw footage to final runtime—to capture usable material. Over time, the speaker notes that industry experience and refined technique enable them to predict and select the best moments, effectively separating "wheat from the chaff" without needing such extreme overshoot. The dialogue highlights the trade‑off between quantity of footage and the skill to efficiently identify quality content.

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Is the process really basically like just keep the cameras rolling and then what's the— Yeah, to a degree. The end product, I guess, is the—
Yeah, to a degree. I mean, like, I'm a notorious overshooter. I have shot 100:1 ratios on these shows, meaning that I've shot 100 hours of footage for an hour of TV. Absolutely absurd ratio. But, but it's how it's honestly how, especially in the beginning, it's how I got the good stuff. Yeah, you then, you know, as you get older, you learn, you get more developed in the industry, you learn technique and an ability to kind of predict those things and kind of sort out, you know, the wheat from the chaff.