ORIGINAL: WKP Todd
Invest tens of thousands of dollars in starting a production company - thousands of hours of time (not being paid) - then put you're name on the final product. When you do that - then you can tell me self-filming and not using camera arms is ok.
Todd, with all due respect, what makes you and WKP successful is not your quality of footage and extra cameramen with camera arms. It is the formula you use for putting that footage together and the story you tell with the footage. I have seen plenty of footage out there that is leaps and bounds better than yours in terms of quality, but change the channel because it bores me. I have seen footage that practially makes me nauseous to watch because it is focusing in and out and bouncing so much, but I can't stop watching because what is going on is so intriguing.
The point I'm making is that with a good film editor and a good story you can make less than perfect footage work, but if you don't have an intersting story the best footage in the world won't help. So, while we should strive to produce the best quality footage possible, we should make sure that the story being captured in the footage is worth telling.