{"id":859,"date":"2007-04-29T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/i-hate-video-monitors\/"},"modified":"2007-04-29T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T10:48:10","slug":"i-hate-video-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/i-hate-video-monitors\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate Video monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kedar asked me if I encourage my actors to look at Video monitors. Actually I really hate video monitos, and if the producers did not insist, I would never have them on my set. . I never watch them personally and believe that it is waste f time for the actors to watch them. The only time I do watch them is when I am using a steady came or a device where I have not been able to look thru the camera, such as a remote controlled crane. The pictures you see are probably one of those devices.  Or maybe I am trying to persuade an actor away from the monitor ! I make films for the adventure of it, and to be able to judge a shot only by looking at video monitor rather than a larger more all encompassing instinct. takes a way the thrill of film making&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nTo me the adventure of film making is why I make films.  Otherwise you are making a commercial.  So I never watch a shot through a video screen, but stay as close to my actors to almost will them on to perform and live their parts.  I also believe that directors who sit behind their  monitors as scenes are being shot, are disconnecting from a larger more spiritual form of connecting with the process.<br \/>\nThey are separating the consciousness of their art thru hiding behind a cloak f technology<br \/>\nshekhar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kedar asked me if I encourage my actors to look at Video monitors. 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