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Are you kidding? How you stitch each of those together into a seamless ever-changing story *is* the magic, especially when you know how it's done. Everything
by Gordonjcp 4y ago
Are you kidding?
How you stitch each of those together into a seamless ever-changing story *is* the magic, especially when you know how it's done.
Everything happens in tiny almost imperceptible 1/24th of a second steps, and yet eye-blink instant can make the difference between you believing a scene and not believing it.
Next time you watch a film or a TV programme, try to see how the trick is done. Watch for how people are positioned so that their eyelines cross when they're talking. Watch how when you cut from one shot to another, there's a movement in the shot that you leave, that matches the shot that you enter. This fools you into not "seeing the join". As you turn your head to look around you blink subconsciously, so your brain is used to dealing with cutting between scenes. How you do that to tell a story is a phenomenally powerful and beautiful art.
- sangnoir 4y ago> How you stitch each of those together into a seamless ever-changing story is the magic... Unfortunately, it is a lesser magic to the one I naively believed in: that of genius directors who have fully-formed visions they bring on screen, and world class actors who need 2 or 3 takes tops. It was all very idealized, and in my defense, I was very young. Now I enjoy deconstructing tools of trade on some movies on a second watch: paying attention to camera angles, composition, color grading and sound. The only thing I regret is learning about the Wilhelm scream, because it always destroys my suspension of disbelief, and I hear it more often than I'd like.