Something I wish directors would stop doing

If you pan along (or around) a group of people, and each one does their thing exactly as the camera reaches them then it makes it clear that they are actors, performing for a camera and drags me _completely_ out of the moment.

Please stop doing this.

Interesting Links for 01-03-2012

• Want to remain friends after a break-up? Here are some things that help/hinder the process
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• Gender and comics. a report from the Glasgow Film Festival
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• The new trailer for Brave gets the archery right - even when it's wrong
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• Astronaut builds LEGO space station inside real-life space station
  (tags: lego space )
• The phone hacking scandal may be bigger than we thought - Metropolitan Police warned NOTW editor she was being investigated
  (tags: police media uk notw )
• LiveJournal: Russia's unlikely internet giant
  (tags: social_networking Russia LJ )