Post by Capo on Jan 28, 2007 14:53:36 GMT
Ladies Skirts Nailed to a Fence
James Bamforth 1900 UK
Two ladies bicker next to a fence; two men nail their skirts to the other side of the fence.
This is funny because it is a fascinating and now-glaring mistake: it is a fictional film, showing one event in two shots. Two different shots, but not two different angles. The illusion of two different angles is what is intended, but Bamforth doesn't move the camera, but simply moves the two women to the other side of the fence. What results is not a cut, but a jump-cut; and the filmmaker hasn't thought about the illusion of the cut, because his women in the reverse shot have not changed their position. The equivalent today would be shooting a conversation in shot/reverse shot and passing the 180 degree line, so that both actors were facing the same way.
James Bamforth 1900 UK
Two ladies bicker next to a fence; two men nail their skirts to the other side of the fence.
This is funny because it is a fascinating and now-glaring mistake: it is a fictional film, showing one event in two shots. Two different shots, but not two different angles. The illusion of two different angles is what is intended, but Bamforth doesn't move the camera, but simply moves the two women to the other side of the fence. What results is not a cut, but a jump-cut; and the filmmaker hasn't thought about the illusion of the cut, because his women in the reverse shot have not changed their position. The equivalent today would be shooting a conversation in shot/reverse shot and passing the 180 degree line, so that both actors were facing the same way.