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That example is under an area called "continuity" and is part of the Script Supervisor's job to make thhttp://www.thefedoralounge.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1209581e least amount of these errors as possible. Prior to digital cameras many script supervisors took Polaroid (instant) pictures of the people, costumes, sets and such to match things up better after a break or resuming filming the next day.
What happens is that over a series of shots with multiple takes details get skewed.
A common thing to watch for is a scene where someone is smoking a cigarette and the cigarette changes lengths from short to long as it was replaced for various shots and takes.
Placement of items on a table or desk get shifted over time but in the shots things have moved without any indication as to how.
Jewelry, such as a woman takes her ring off then it's on in the next shot, then off again.
Tracks in the dirt- it's a chase scene and you can see footprints or tire tracks from previous takes.
The same hubcap comes off 2 or 3 times during a car chase.
In Close Encounters one of the cars has different state license plates as it gets driven to the Devils Tower.
I haven't seen it - maybe urban legend but supposedly there is a scene in a movie about either Biblical characters or ancient Rome where someone in the background forgot to take off their wrist watch.
In a fight scene an item like a piece of furniture gets broken but you catch a glimpse of it unbroken later in the fight as shots and takes get rearranged during editing too.
There are films (I think in Coma) where you can see the boom mike in a bunch of scenes.
Today they can digitally "fix" a lot of stuff. In ET they replaced the government agents guns with flashlights and walkie talkies to be PC.
Here is a trailer for a French film "What War May Bring". It was a so-called high budget movie. Watch the trailer :eusa_doh:
I assume you're referring to Lelouch's blatant disregard of the fact that the U.S. Army didn't integrate until years after World War 2? That's not a continuity or editing error, that's just him not letting reality get in the way of telling his story. Sort of "let's ignore a distasteful but fundamental part of African American history to fit our own artistic vision." I guess I don't got no culture, but stuff like that just takes me right out of the story.
Oh, I thought it was the invasion of France in 1942??
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You mean like ‘Miracle at St. Anna’, directed by Spike Lee? I was about five minutes into that movie when I lost complete interest. He could have done so much more with that movie.That's not a continuity or editing error, that's just him not letting reality get in the way of telling his story.
You mean like ‘Miracle at St. Anna’, directed by Spike Lee? I was about five minutes into that movie when I lost complete interest. He could have done so much more with that movie.
Sometimes it's just plain ignorance or lack of research...
Speaking about student made films, I've seen a shortmovie about american vs german soldiers in Italy, WWII... the uniforms were fully realistic (for what I've learned here and in other forums, at least) as well as many of the actions, but at a certain point one german soldier takes cover behind a round hay "bale"...
well, I lived out of town for some twenty years and I'm sure the machinery that creates big round hay "balls" wasn't in use in Italy before the '80s, at least; I'm pretty sure that during WWII they stacked hay in piles, or maybe in small square bales.
Obviously you have to have lived in countryside for a period to know this...
not that was a great mistake, but it made the whole think looking like some reenacting exercise, and not like the real war.
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