I'll confess right now: I've never seen a Michael Bay movie, save for the first few minutes of the first Transformers, but I lost interest at the Megan Fox scene knowing the robots weren't gonna be the main focus. Now after seeing this video I'm inclined to say that the clips I saw... impressed me, though ol' Michael seems to have the personality of a pile of dirt, he's boring. Now on to synopsis. Bay's techniques are more than most give him credit for. One thing he discussed was use of alternating camera angles, close UPS, medium shots, and long shots to give a good feel of of the action, as well as the struggle of Mark Wahlberg and the others that don't matter. Something else uses is actual, real, legitimate big objects in his scenes. He got a real really big propeller, and hung a car from a crane a smack a stunt man with it. He also had a method for physics where threw a tennis ball to tell how long objects should be airborne.
Bay himself might be bland, but his cinematography isn't. I will probably use a lot of these methods next year, and this article got me excited for film class. So cut Mikey some slack, his shots aren't boring.
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