> Remember that movies are HIGHLY produced works This is one of the reasons I have respect for those involved in the filmmaking process. It's a LOT of blinkin'

> Remember that movies are HIGHLY produced works This is one of the reasons I have respect for those involved in the filmmaking process. It's a LOT of blinkin' work. We had a videographer come through to do a video on one of our software products. Kind of a "here's how it could be used" type a video. At one point, I watched him record someone opening a cell phone 10 times in a row. Just a hand, and a cell phone, flipping it open. A cheap shot to be sure, 10 times is no big deal. But that's get extrapolated to the entire production. The set up, the tear down, the repetition. Consider that, especially on TV, if you see a conversation between two people, cutting back and forth to their faces, odds are that scene was simply shot twice and edited together. You hear stories about how family scenes at a dinner table take all day to shoot because they have a single camera, so they shoot it over and over and over and over again, to capture all of the characters. Then there's the waiting for the light, and other aspects of filmmaking that we, as consumers, get to take for granted.