How are they doing this ?

[scrimski]

No.
'They' film every character seperatly, including the dialogue of the currently not visible person and cut it together.

[victor throe]

yes....which is why you dont ever want the job of continuity on set...its hellish. in fact so is the role of clapper board operator as each take has to be marked up differently

my favourite continuity crap-sack is pulp fiction. when the couple hold up the coffee house. when the scene is repeated later in the film, the dialogue is completely different. illustrating the above point. same shot, shot at differnt times from different angles

[scrimski]

Funny that you mention 'Pulp Fiction' - just saw it yesterday and noticed a few mismatches. This having-an-eagle-eye-on-continuity is the part I hate most in being an editor. When I'm bored with the movie I start to look automatically for such continuity errors, I just can't stop it. In good or interesting movies I notice the errors, but I don't mind them - this is the way I separate good movies from bad movies.
I have seen worse than Pulp Fiction though. I'm working on a no-budget project with a director who 'doesn't believe in storyboards' nor pre-production planing or continuity, due the extremely long breaks between the shootings I have seen one of the main characters with different haircuts and weight losses around 40 pounds in one scene, which is very, very irritating.

[Tagger]

i've had it happen more then once that i was editing on a scene for days and after seeing it 50 times or so i go "hmmm ... wait a minute .... that's not supposed to be there" :)
continuity can be a real pain, but that's what i like about editing, making it all work

[victor throe]

I'm working on a no-budget project with a director who 'doesn't believe in storyboards' nor pre-production planing or continuity

then he is a twat....tell him i said so


i once worked on a crappy film and was bored with how shoddy it was being done...there was a scene with a lounge full of toys amongst them was a puzzle. and if you watch the scene in the final cut, the puzzle does itself.


dont ask for the movie title.

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