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“Sin City Shooters” Critique
Sin City Shooters, a video by the Las Vegas Sun’s Evelio Contreras, documents the bimonthly meetings of a Vegas-based pistol club.
The video opens with the pop of small gunfire, a noise that becomes the soundtrack of the piece as it moves to interview several club members. The interviews are intriguing–one older woman in particular seems to be certifiably insane–and benefit from steady camera work. The same cannot be said about some of the other shots; the camera was clearly not on a tripod, and its movement (which is more excessive than normal tilt or pan shots) often becomes distracting.
The shots are edited quite well, and the sequence flows from one shot to the next. Interview subjects are identified by labels on the bottom of the screen, a touch that is more a courtesy than anything; I found myself not really paying attention to names, marveling instead at the sheer lunacy of the group.
Despite the fact that some of the camerawork seemed to have been conducted by an epilectic 4-year-old, Sin City Shooters is a successful video. Short and to the point, its depiction of gun-crazy Nevadans shows a side of the city that we rarely see.