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What the author finds positively strange is how incredibly pliant these
firemen are. The author has made films using professional and
non-professional talent. He has found that it is very hard to keep
amateurs focused on a task, particularly when multiple set-ups are used.
Set-ups take time. (Normally, about ten to twenty minutes per shot if
shooting video. This could easily be increased in a scene that involves
a firetruck crane.) Yet, the firemen here seem so unbelievably dedicated to
participating in this documentary it belies the idea that this was
made by amateurs.
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This scene probably took several hours to film. Neither
New York city firefighter seems to mind. There is no
sense of agitation or tension in either man, as their evening is being spent
filming a documentary for two filmmaking brothers that no one has previously heard
of.
These actors are incredible.
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