{"id":9457,"date":"2009-06-24T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9457"},"modified":"2010-07-03T05:24:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T09:24:13","slug":"second-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9457","title":{"rendered":"Second units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea the percentage, but I would imagine that many of my &#8220;favorite shots&#8221; from favorite films have come from the second units.  Just a wild guess.<\/p>\n<p>It is those second unit shots that (ideally, anyway) show atmosphere, mood &#8211; create a world (not just an actual world but an emotional world), or serve a function to slow things down, the sudden stillness in the middle of action, whatever it might be.  Second units &#8211; underpraised indeed.  So <a href=\"http:\/\/arbogastonfilm.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/frisson-of-certain-second-units.html\">I loved to read this post from Arbogast<\/a>, about the second unit shots of <i>Dawn of the Dead<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems almost a backhanded compliment to say that these compositions are European in their aesthetic. And yet, there it is. A layering, stripped of irony. There&#8217;s a fullness here, a sense of life conspicuous in its absence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup.  Yup.<\/p>\n<p>There are some pretty funny (horrifying) stories in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0306811235?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0306811235\">The Devil&#8217;s Candy<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0306811235\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i> about how the second unit was basically a renegade outfit, completely beyond the bounds of control (although bringing in some brilliant shots &#8211; many of which did not end up in the movie, millions down the drain) &#8211; and it&#8217;s a really good look at what NOT to do with your second unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea the percentage, but I would imagine that many of my &#8220;favorite shots&#8221; from favorite films have come from the second units. Just a wild guess. It is those second unit shots that (ideally, anyway) show atmosphere, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15295,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions\/15295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}