A lesson in Continuity!

[STYLZ]

Before I do this I have to ask. Am I allowed to post screen grabs from a hollywood movie?
"moderators"?


O.k. no biggie. Was watching bad boys 2 the other day and noticed this.

In the ms note lack of hard light and shadows


Cut in, notice the hard light on wills face as well as the ladies.


Cut to reverse, notice the palm tree leave shadows that were absent in previous shots.


Same reverse a few shots later, emphasize hard leave shadows on girl.


back out again, where did it all go? The hard light, the shadows?



Moral of the story, people in the theatre won't notice this.
We as an audience tend to accept things on the big screen (and t.v.) more than if it was on the net, or someone we know's production.
Feel free to add your continuity lessons from other movies. Whenever you get the time that is.

 

[HorseFilms]

It's been done before and isn't considered a bad thing. I'd say post away.

 

[Terry_Lasater]

This makes the second animated avatar to say, "Do it!".

 

[Brandon Rice]

First unanimated avatar to say "do it!"

 

[DBoz699]

I concur

 

[STYLZ]

It's up now.

 

[Brandon Rice]

Nice stuff man... and its true, people notice a lot less than people here and on the net do.

 

[Ben Sliker]

cmon, it's michael bay, i'm surprised he didn't have stuff blowing up in the background to distract us (btw, i kinda like bay films, stoked for transformers), ill give him the benefit of the doubt that there was wind in the palm tree.

 

[TimurCivan]

its purely "musicVideo" style cutting. no real continuity anywhere at anytime. its a stylisistic thing it seems to me. i actually really like the glossy polished unnatural look of BAd Boys 2. Like, sunlight from weird angles and three point lighting in Direct sunlight or under overcast skies.

i thought it looked really cool.

 

[Terry_Lasater]

Hey Stylz,

Yeah, that's been the status quo in lots of movies over the years. WS and MS have minimal lighting and then the CUs suddenly have all this great-looking fill, rim, etc. that only exists in those CUs.

Charli

 

[Charli]

Terry - You signed my name on your post! "You like me, you really, really like
me!"

Ah, it's too early too laugh.

Charli (aka Terry)

 

[Terry_Lasater]

Sorry, sometimes I do goofy things just to amuse myself.

 

[David Jimerson]

Before I do this I have to ask. Am I allowed to post screen grabs from a hollywood movie?
"moderators"?


O.k. no biggie. Was watching bad boys 2 the other day and noticed this.

In the ms note lack of hard light and shadows


Cut in, notice the hard light on wills face as well as the ladies.


Cut to reverse, notice the palm tree leave shadows that were absent in previous shots.


Same reverse a few shots later, emphasize hard leave shadows on girl.


back out again, where did it all go? The hard light, the shadows?



Moral of the story, people in the theatre won't notice this.
We as an audience tend to accept things on the big screen (and t.v.) more than if it was on the net, or someone we know's production.
Feel free to add your continuity lessons from other movies. Whenever you get the time that is.

Watcha gonna do?

 

[Brandon Rice]

when they come for you.

 

[STYLZ]

Well yeah, it's one thing to tweak lighting in close ups, but to have shadows in one close up and not the reverse. Once again the audience doesn't notice for the most part.

 

[Patryk_Rebisz]

Lack of continuity is actually sometimes sough after. For instance i find that if i have one actor with strong sun behind and little fill and he's talking to a person lit by that sun (frontal light) then there is huge disparity between those 2. In other words logically it makes sense but visually doesn't. I would always go with visual sense. SO i would rather have the second actor cheat so he's backlit too.

 

[DBoz699]

Now that we're on the discussion of continuity problems....I noticed a problem in Spiderman. I'm sorry i dont have the DVD to post any pictures..but if someone has the dvd and would post pics, it would be appreciated.

Its the last scene of the movie where Peter Parker goes to the cemetary to see MJ...they start talkin and she puts her hand on his face, and for some cuts, the hand is there, for others its gone or it moved up or down at a different angle than before. If anyone had noticed...

 

[STYLZ]

Well lack of continuity dealing with actors body positions is actually a well known technique. It invovles the audience more, they are like wth is going on here. Alright....j/k.

When my little short promo/doc played on the big screen at cinevegas I felt I was more accepting of it than when played on my computer(and during editing) Color correction was off, but I'm sure nobody noticed. I was more into it and the brief story it contained. Do they have a name for this phenomena? If not lets make one up.

And yes I know what your saying about having your actors lit the same. Shadows here and there then not(in close up mind you). Wonder if they did that intentionally.