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Past influences
Intuition
Many cameramen insist that composition is intuitive and assume that framing decisions are based on personal and subjective opinion. Even a cursory examination of an evening's output of television will demonstrate the near uniformity of standard conventions in composition. The exceptions to what is considered ‘good’ composition are either provided by inexperienced cameramen who have yet to become aware of professional techniques (e.g., ‘video diaries’) or those productions where there has been a conscious decision to be ‘different’. This usually entails misframing conventional shots in the mistaken belief that something new and original has been created. In effect, it is simply mispronouncing standard visual language. ...
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