Ah, Philip.
Philip, Philip, Philip.
You started off so well. Your heart was in the right place. You just wanted to talk about camera geekery on the internet. But something’s gone wrong, Philip. You’ve become a monster. All the head-patting and Twitter love has left you thinking that your little camera test videos are a world class example of stunning cinematography.
They’re not, Philip.
They’re the cinematographic equivalent of an elevator music version of “The Girl From Ipanema”.
But it’s not too late, Philip. Go and shoot some actual drama. Doesn’t matter what camera you use. Just real scenes with great actors performing a script that means something to the audience. Watch some old films. Write about how they make you feel. Research the work of the great cinematographers of the past eighty years. You could be educating all your online followers to genuinely raise their game and start telling stories to the rest of the world. All this stuff about bracketry and filters is a total distraction.
And stop making those Downfall videos. Seriously, it stopped being funny about ten years ago.
