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Post by drivebyluna on Apr 4, 2012 12:43:56 GMT -5
Yeah shaky cam is set up unnecessarily early. The beginning shot is a guy eating some chicken WITH SHAKY CAM.
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Post by lynn on Apr 4, 2012 18:42:57 GMT -5
Well, you know, eating chicken. Dramatic, moving stuff.
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Post by Gilberto on Apr 5, 2012 17:35:24 GMT -5
Here's one I've mentioned in terms of Walking Dead, and it still bothers me every time they do it: CG blood spatters! Nothing looks cooler the a bag of stage blood exploding. CG looks awful. Bring back the blood!
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Post by lynn on Apr 5, 2012 18:10:36 GMT -5
And it's not like it's hard to make decent film blood, it's probably cheaper than the cg stuff for real! And then when they make it splatter on the camera for no reason... the camera isn't meant to be there people! This is a film! No visible 4th wall!
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Post by Gilberto on Apr 14, 2012 11:27:07 GMT -5
I know; that's why old school horror films are the best. A little corn syrup goes a long way. I don't get it.
I just watched the new Three Musketeers and it totally does the accent thing that drives me nuts. All the musketeers are British guys in this movie. Otherwise it's mostly dumb but a fun adventure movie.
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Post by Gilberto on Apr 14, 2012 11:35:06 GMT -5
Here's a new one I just thought about because they do it in the new Awake show. British actors who are always bad guys when they use their accents in American movies, but whenever they get cast as a good guy they drop the accent. There's a subtle xenophobia going on here. Watch anything with Rufus Sewell in it. Every time he uses his natural accent he's totally evil (like in "A Knight's Tale"), but if he drops the accent he suddenly becomes a nice guy (like in "Dark City").
Jason Isaacs is the same way. He's a storybook bad guy in Harry Potter and "The Patriot" - delightfully evil. But he drops the accent in this show and suddenly he's an okay guy just trying to get by in the world.
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Post by Gilberto on Apr 30, 2012 16:55:20 GMT -5
Here's another one:
People in movies and TV shows pretending to drink coffee from empty travel cups. They never look like anything but empty cups and it actually drives me crazy. Can't they put water in them or something? They're obviously not drinking anything.
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Post by lynn on Apr 30, 2012 18:25:03 GMT -5
YES! This one annoys me even when they're not pretending to drink, they hand people their drinks from drive-through or whatever and the cup is swinging around in the air. Even if it's not full, use your acting people!
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Post by drivebyluna on May 1, 2012 0:06:02 GMT -5
I always wonder what they use for fake alcohol. Apple juice? Tea?
Also I was watching the Constant Gardner and I was having the same problem as in the first post. I was constantly adjusting the volume any time there was a background song or when there was dialogue.
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Post by lynn on May 1, 2012 2:45:05 GMT -5
We used some sort of tea for fake alcohol on stage. I think sometimes they use alcohol free beer, apparently that's a thing, and for wine there's always alcohol free wine. It's actually pretty tasty. Also, some people just get drunk on screen, apparently they just used real wine in Juno for that scene with Jennifer Garner and by the end she wasn't speaking so clearly. Oh, also last year we did a play that was set in a bar and they insisted on using real beer because they had to be opening the bottles, for the scene, and the boys said by the end of the play they were struggling to remember what they were doing. Adds to the realism.
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Post by Gilberto on May 3, 2012 15:46:02 GMT -5
We learned a lesson on that one. We shot a sketch where the actor drank tea that was supposed to be bourbon. There were so many takes he threw up. Then it turned out they didn't put batteries in the microphone so the whole thing had to be re-shot. On the shoot we just had him drink water and pretended it was Vodka.
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Post by broox on May 3, 2012 16:23:01 GMT -5
yeah I felt pretty sick by the end of that shoot too (btw I wasn't the one that threw up)
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Post by lynn on May 3, 2012 18:34:55 GMT -5
There was another one where they were doing live interactive theatre and they used iced tea for their alcohol, we were guests at a wedding, so I was a good guest and went and took as many beers as I could to drink. They complained of getting the runs after rehearsals, the ones who were meant to get drunk anyway.
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Post by wilson on May 4, 2012 8:55:40 GMT -5
Sean, I feel like every story from that time period regarding shooting, ends with "...but we forgot to put a battery in the mic" or "...but we forgot to put a tape in the camera". It seems like I've heard that ending alot when we drink and discuss productions.
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Post by broox on May 4, 2012 13:09:57 GMT -5
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