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Go Pro Rifle Range Tests

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https://mattkprovideo.com/2018/07/23/go-pro-rifle-range-tests/

I always wanted to try this.  A Go Pro Camera attached to a rifle at a shooting range.

 

We went to Hot Wells Gun Range in Cypress, Texas ( near Houston).

The first shots were taken on a Go Pro 6 using a “Jaws”  flex Clamp.

The rifle’s shooting action moved the camera quite a bit. That footage is within the first minute of this video.

The next set of video shots were taken from a Go Pro 4 using a “bicycle handlebar” clamp.  I was much happier with those videography shots.

 

After approximately sevent minutes, the  footage is from a conventional video camera. A handheld Canon G20.

I did a quick simple edit in Adobe Premiere. I hope a fancier edited version is soon to follow.

I am not a fire arms owner. I hardly ever use them. But I was impressed with the Hot Wells Gun School staff.  Their place was very clean. Seemed very well organized. All the staff were very friendly

https://shop.gopro.com/mounts/jaws-flex-clamp/ACMPM-001.html

 

https://hwrange.com/

Spielberg on Jaws & Raiders

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https://mattkprovideo.com/2018/07/18/spielberg-on-jaws-raiders/

Spielberg  and Dick Cavett discuss Jaws & Raiders

 

Spielberg couldn’t say “Midget” today.

In fact on the JAWS DVD he always says “little person.”

This talk show is slow and tame by todays standards. In the “post Arsenio” era they’d be encouraging rowdiness from the crowd.

Today the shark would of course be CGI.  But why not “muppeteers” under a rubber shark?

 

 

John Williams Documentary

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Star Wars – Music by John Williams Rare 1980 Documentary

https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/07/john-williams-documentary/

 

A documentary on the amazing John Williams. He scored most of the great movie epics of the last 30 years: Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark and all its sequels, Star Wars and all its sequels!

His music is the best part of anything that he has worked on.

Williams score brought the fear and dread of the impending shark attacks in Jaws. He ( and George Lucas) had the great idea to have the music score for Star Wars contradict the pictures.  High Tech futuristic imagery with old style pseudo classical music underneath gave the potentially goofy movie a seriousness and elegance it wouldn’t have had otherwise.

 

Say what you want about the Phantom Menace…. John Williams music score, especially “Duel of the Fates” is excellent!

 

At 14:06 you can see the Carbon Freeze scene from The Empire Strikes Back with the original undubbed voices!