You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.
If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.
I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.
A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.
You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.
Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.
You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.