Binocular Shot

by bookofjoe • 1 year ago

58 32 1 year ago

That's a lot of effort for something that's really just a matter of style. The Internet would be full, if we went after every stylistic trick that videographers use, to signal various tropes (like the "dizzy spell," or the "moving car").

Props for featuring Top Secret as the headliner, though...

bookofjoe2• 1 year ago

From "Top Secret": https://imgur.com/a/h3wR9Y2

brookst3• 1 year ago

Surely you meant: https://imgur.com/a/yEz4dSc

dzuc• 1 year ago

See https://tvtropes.org for a whole lot of them.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BinocularShot

serviceberry• 1 year ago

The author isn't posting angry rants about it. I think one can look at it as just a quirky collection. No different from cataloging the movies that feature the Wilhelm scream, and how many articles have been written about that?

ChrisMarshallNY3• 1 year ago

Agreed. That makes sense.

Wyverald• 1 year ago

It currently features 36 fantastic films and also White Noise (2022).

_oof_

bookofjoe2• 1 year ago

Until your comment I didn't realize that was a diss of "White Noise." I kept trying to figure out why it was singled out.... Doh!

nine_k2• 1 year ago

At a press conference after the success of initial Star Wars movie someone told George Lucas: "But spacecraft don't make that whizzzzhh noise as they fly in space!", and Lucas replied: "I know".

The truth in art is not the same as the truth in a physical experiment.

weard_beard2• 1 year ago

Hypothesis formation is art. Without it there would be no physical experiments. Every scientist is an artist at heart.

the_af2• 1 year ago

I think the point is that what looks good in art (even in "realistic" art) is not necessarily what is "more like the real thing". The Simpsons made a joke about this ("cows don't look like cows on screen, that's why we use horses") but it's true.

More importantly, what the author intends to convey sometimes requires emphasis that isn't present in real life.

There was an extremely cool blog post about photography on HN a year or so ago, where the point was made that there are no "real" photos (in the sense of "accurately representing reality"), there's always a choice by the photographer (colors, framing, distance to subject, distortion, etc).

IshKebab• 1 year ago

I definitely agree, but on the other hand I think it is cool when they try and do things realistically, e.g. in The Expanse. I don't think it lost anything for not having whooshy spaceship sounds. IIRC Battlestar Gallactica also didn't have sound in space? Been a while though I might have forgotten that.

Still, a camera isn't supposed to show you exactly what eyes would see. I think it's fine in this case.

takinola2• 1 year ago

At this point putting realistic sounds in movies would confuse the audience and take them out of the movie. Bald eagles don't sound like most of us think they do and swords don't make that sound when you wave them around or sheath them.

smusamashah3• 1 year ago

There was another website which let you find movie quotes. You search for quote and it brought up small clip where characters are saying that thing you searched for. Had very similar UI, can't find it. Edit: probably https://clip.cafe/ there are few others too

There is another one which is like a Netflix of subplots extracted from movies. I remember it had lots from Rick and Morty. Because Rick and morty keeps bringing up random subplots never to discuss ever again.

There is another website which is a gif database of awesome shots from movies etc. It's like a reference database of camera work.

Will list when I find these urls.

achille• 1 year ago

you might be thinking of seinquotes -> click the image to get a video gif of the quote https://seinquotes.com/?search=hold+the+reservation

wozniacki• 1 year ago

  another website which is a gif database of awesome shots from movies etc.
  It's like a reference database of camera work.

Is it https://eyecannndy.com/ ? Or a different one ?

smusamashah3• 1 year ago

Yes, exactly this one. Thanks.

Agree2468• 1 year ago

getyarn.io is the clip site I've seen. https://nestflix.fun/ is for movies within movies, not sure if that's what you're referring to by subplots thought.

smusamashah3• 1 year ago

This https://nestflix.fun/ was the one I was thinking of in terms of subplots. Thanks.

EDIT: its on github, you can contribute more plots raising new issues here https://github.com/lynnandtonic/nestflix.fun

crazygringo2• 1 year ago

This website collects movie clips with inaccurate binocular shots (i.e., two overlapping circles instead of one, as you would see in real life).

I'm just amazed it never once occurred to me that that's not how looking through binoculars looks. Despite having used binoculars lots of times.

I think it's just the field of view we wish binoculars had...?

speerer• 1 year ago

I just picked up some binoculars to test this out. They're pretty good quality yet it is very easy for me to see it through two overlapping circles without feeling that it's misaligned to my eyes. It 'helps' that I wear glasses, so they are not ever snug up against my face - But this really isn't feeling inaccurate to me.

crazygringo2• 1 year ago

Those sound like... broken binoculars?

I just tried my pair out right now, and there's probably 95% overlap between the two circles.

If you have anything like what is shown in movies, then you don't have depth perception in most of what you see. Binoculars are meant to gave you a single image with depth perception throughout, not two separate images with depth perception only where they overlap.

the_af2• 1 year ago

If you see two distinct circles with little overlapping, your binoculars are not properly adjusted for your eye separation. You should see two mostly overlapping circles.

jovas• 1 year ago

As a kid, I was really excited to try out binoculars, and "see for myself" the so-called "binocular shot." I was very disappointed.

takinola2• 1 year ago

There are a lot of things in movies that don't align to real life. Eagles don't sound like you think they do. Swords don't make that sound when you sheath them. The problem is that audiences have been so used to these visual and audio metaphors that reality would break the illusion.

ChrisMarshallNY3• 1 year ago

Eagles don't sound like you think they do.

The “classic” sound for eagles is actually the cry of a red-tailed hawk. We have both redtails, and bald eagles, around here.

Eagles sound pretty unimpressive. I term it “the call of the sick seagull.”

genewitch• 1 year ago

This is called "the coconut effect" and I used to be able to rattle off examples, but it's late.

In a decent search engine(bing, brave):

!tvt coconut effect

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