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Director's Take: Christina Aguilera On Set Visit
On Monday, Shaun Robinson interviewed Christina Aguilera on our Stage. She was great! I remember her as a child from her Mickey Mouse Club days and it is still difficult to see her as anything other than that funny, sweet, slightly mischievous teen. It is such a pleasure to see what she’s become today: a poised and accomplished artist and a very personable human being.
On our Access Hollywood stage we’re a little short on camera operators, owing to budget constraints. Currently we have two. So, we compensate by using all the cameras we have, locking off several of them on specific shots and roaming with the handhelds. We “float” a wide shot with the jib, which in TV terms is not a staysail (although there are some days when high winds aloft on stage warrant one!) but a mechanical arm with a camera attached to the end. The jib moves about getting our wide shot cover.
Christina looked great in big close-ups, so we shot her with our 24P camera, which gives a film-like quality to the video. I love faces and how cameras see faces (different from the human eye), so it is always fun to work with someone who can take a close-up. Christina has a glamorous quality, which works well with this more filmy treatment.
Christina also signed our Celebrity Wall, or the first step of it anyway (described in an earlier blog.) She has a very creative signature. . . pretty much a shatter of pen swiftly splotched onto our Wacom tablet. We certainly are getting a collection of interesting signatures and Christina’s is no exception.
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