"newshound" wrote in message
o.uk...
And there's lots of panning away from peoples faces whilst they are
continuing to talk.

The worst drama I ever saw for the "panning away" technique, used
excessively and "oh bugger, here it comes yet again" was This Life (1996).
In a scene with two actors, it was common for the camera to pan from person
A to person B, while person A was still speaking. Fine: it lets you see B's
reaction to what A is saying. Except (and this is the really maddening
thing) the camera would often get half way from A to B, then pan back to A
while it was showing neither of them. Or else there would be a jump cut from
the panning-from-A-to-B shot to a shot of A again. Both of these fads gave
the impression that the cameraman and/or editor didn't know what they were
doing - it was panning for effect, drawing attention to itself, rather than
for a dramatic purpose.