What video did you buy that you had really high hopes for based on what you thought it would be and were REALLY disappointed? (This post isn't meant to knock producers. Its just some producers produce great stuff but it doesn't appeal to the fetish of the guy that bought it thinking it would be something else.)

I don't know about buying one, but when shooting, I had a "camera guy" who forgot to take it off of manual focus. Most of the video ended up blurry!

Anything with background music that covers up the natural sound

It always disappoints me when you order videos and they don't arrive.

Dude, I once forgot to press record and a model spotted and pointed it out during her introduction. Camera two guy has never let me forget it...

I used to use DV for filming and when uploading a shoot the computer (which was one of the worst I have ever owned or used) apparently was getting "hiccups" and I didn't realize it until after I uploaded it (when I played it back on the TV through the camera with the volunteer, it was fine). I realized this issue at about 3 in the morning and had to upload the tape all over again. In real time of course. From that point on I worked exclusively in hard drive camcorders and am switching to P2 soon.

I met a guy in Osaka who was really keen to see one of our shoots. We were planning to shoot outdoors that week, and I needed a 2nd cameraman, so I asked him to help. He said he was happy to help, but that he had never used a camera before. I assured him it would be easy, and gave him a crash course.

Wrong. He really didn't know. After getting a few OK shots, he left it on "record" once while it hung at his side. Seeing this in editing, I prayed for the inevitable to not happen... but it inevitably did: the next time he raised and pointed the camera, he then turned it OFF, and when it came back on again, the camera then went back down to his side for several minutes. But when it came time to shoot again, he raised, pointed, and... OFF. He continued this cycle of "reverse filming" for the entire rest of the shoot... and I was too much of an idiot to catch it.....


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This is slightly off but i'm always frustrated with the videos advertised on UMD with amazing stills you're all fired up to buy and you go to the website/download site and either you can't find it or it isn't up there - that is always disappointing!

I can never understand why producers do it, I nearly always forget about going back and they lose a sale..

All the ones with behind the camera constant talking and/or direction.

The ones where the model is sitting there and gets totally covered up in mess and then the director starts jerking off on them without their knowledge or consent.

Since I shoot a lot of my videos by setting up the camera on a tripod and then playing in the mud in front of it, I've made every mistake mentioned here. I've misfocused, failed to hit "record", I've missed some of the action, and I've had shots ruined by the sun coming out or going behind a cloud when the camera was on manual exposure. The worst is when I fail to hit "record", and so I miss the entire scene, but badly out of focus shots are also unusable.

As far as videos I've purchased, I think audio issues are the most aggravating. When the audio is distorted, noisy, full of background noise, etc., its just way too distracting. Video quality is an issue, but video doesn't need to be pristine to be watchable. Shaky camera work annoys me, but if the audio is bad, I have no choice but to turn down the audio and watch a silent movie.

I too tripod myself a lot and it's dangerous!

I don't know exactly where I'd put another human at some of my sites as they can be pretty close quarters or just plain human-hostile to people who aren't me...but it'd be nice sometimes if I just had a human somewhere to tell me that it's somehow not just working...or...since I'm very nearsighted...

That the tripod leg just sank into the mud and now it's shooting someplace where I'm not.

Nessie

This series of jokes will never stop being amusing to my adolescent mind.

Ouch! You would think that some people would have common sense. I hate it when the guy I have filming doesn't pay attention, and when it's time for the "money" shot where the girl gets her head / face messy, he points the camera down! I'm reviewing the video like no no NOO!! It's definitely NOT the time to do up-down pan shots of the model's body when she's getting her face messy at the end of the scene!!! Ever since I've always had 2 cameras going. Between the two, one of the camera guys/gals has to be non-idiotic enough to get a good shot at each moment.

This one is tough because amateur models really do need direction. You can prime them before the scene, but the producer always needs to interject. You can cover up the talking in post, by pasting background noise over the talking or whatever, but if you've got an SLR camera taking pictures as well, you've got 2,000 clickety-clacks to cover up as well. Basically impossible (IMO). That's why some of us just throw a music soundtrack over it all. With an experienced or creative model, some good coaching, one of them soundproof camera boxes, and creating editing in post, it could be done.

Yeah, even as a trollish comment, this one gets my upboat haha.

I fond I'm forever screaming "down, down, bloody pan down!" because you can see that the girl's trunk / legs must be getting messy but the camera operator is obsessed with keeping her face dead-centre of frame, with 3' of dead space above and no view of her lower half at all. I suspect my neighbours thought I'd gone totally bonkers when I once spent an entire Allwam scene screaming "Pan the bloody camera DOWN you bastard!!!" in a very loud voice all the way through a video at about 2 in the morning - and only afterwards realised the window next to Mission Control was wide open to the street. Oops!

Needless to say it's something I make absolutely sure my own camera operators fully understand, and the guy I've got shooting for me now is absolutely brilliant, totally "gets it" where WAM vids are concerned.

So in answer to the original question, in my case it's any video where the model is wearing the kind of clothes I like on her lower half, but the scene is shot so you never get a decent "proper WAM" view of anything below the waistline. *especially* if the framing means there's loads of empty space above her head, i.e. they could have panned down a bit and not lost anything, but gained so much.

A mention also has to go to scenes where the model is wearing a long skirt or dress, the camera is set up with a perfect full-height view of the model including her lap, but then before the gunging starts she crosses her legs, raising the angle of her lap and totally blocking the camera's view, but the camera operator doesn't raise their viewpoint to compensate. That's every bit as annoying as those old TV-show gunge-tanks which had a glass door that totally blocked the view inside once the gunge fell, because you know what's happening, but can't actually see it! Arrghhhh!!!

another one is when the camera pans down/along her legs but stops or cuts away just before reaching her bare feet. I have a couple of vids where she is barefoot (I always make sure of this before purchasing, even pm'd producers to be certain) AND her feet are clearly getting a lot of mess, but there's just a few seconds where they are visible, most likely by accident...

(just to add, its very rare that a video does't meet my hopes though, and thanks to various producers for helping me out)

um......i guess nobody wants to hurt anyone's feelings by specifying which videos these are? Don't want anyone to buy a faulty clip now would we?

I bought an iWam clip many moons ago, and for the first 3 or 4 minutes the audio is from another point in the video. Kinda ruins the buildup, but I never got round to chasing it up, so I guess it's my problem now!

Could be unique to my copy, so don't be put off the site!