> Can someone tell me why he was firing towards the cinematographer and the director at the same time and how one shot can kill one and injure another? How does that work?
Simply if the DP and the director are both on a dolly truck or crane platform and working in close physical proximity together for the purposes of viewing a scene as it is being recorded either visually or using an LCD display mounted on the camera itself. If visually then the best vantage point is over the camera lens looking parallel to the principal lens axis.
If the scene calls for recording the point of view of the victim at the time a shot is fired at close range (as can commonly be the case in an action movie script), then the barrel of the prop gun is pointed directly at the camera at the time the actor pulls the trigger, and safety of the DP and director are actually in the hands of the set armorer. i’m not sure it is the job of the actor to second guess the armorer. the actor needs to know his lines and deliver them convincingly with inflection, body language, etc. the actor is probably nowhere near the physical location where the armorer prepares (or normally should prepare) the set prop guns for a scene with dummy rounds. Really, my guess is that the purpose of a set armorer is to ensure that occurrences like this never happen. thus, the armorer or his boss (either a set safety supervisor, AD pr director himself or herself) might be in big legal trouble.
Thanks for the info.....
....and yet
through a hundred plus years of movie making.......AND
.....hundreds of thousands, millions of movies and TV.....
...this is the first time, is it not, that an actor has killed someone else?
The other times were self inflicted.
And the perp is Alec Baldwin
Go figure
It appears the folks killed and injured are highly commended, beloved
I think it will not go well for Alec
> Simply if the DP and the director are both on a dolly truck or crane platform and working in close physical proximity together for the purposes of viewing a scene as it is being recorded either visually or using an LCD display mounted on the camera itself. If visually then the best vantage point is over the camera lens looking parallel to the principal lens axis.
example (wes anderson american express commercial):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbO3BS0Uzm0