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[fan_eunice]

Dear [professional source] makers,

I appreciate that sometimes you have to go back and do pick up shots. Hey, shit happens. However, when you do it might behoove you to actually pay attention to [identifying detail] when setting up said shot. This way your friendly neighborhood vidder won't end up trying to fix your mistake on the timeline in a frustrated funk because she needs that clip.

This is not the first, and I have no doubt not the last, time this has happened to me. Whether it's tv or movies or whatever there is always that moment where someone gets sloppy with pick up shots or with stunt doubles or something. And in a larger work the professional editor can usually fudge it enough that it doesn't draw notice except on trivia boards. But for vidders it is a nightmare. Your magic disappearing/reappearing truck/tree/arm/etc (examples are completely random and not related) DO NOT AMUSE US. Please, for the love of my sanity, stop doing it.

Comments

[thingswithwings]

ugh, I was just complaining about this yesterday! SO ANNOYING. Also if source makers could start shooting things the way they ought to be shot and thus the way they look subsequently in my head, that would be super nice. But I'll settle for the shot continuity thing.

[fan_eunice]

Don't they have people whose entire jobs is to say things like 'Hey, that table was on the left' (also not the actual thing)

If they don't, they should.

[absolutedestiny]

Usually there are thousands of polaroid photos taken on set so folks can refer to them later for continuity but yeah, this sorta thing is annoying when vidding. You should try animation - at least with live action people can't have more or less limbs than they should.

[fan_eunice]

How do you end up with accidental limbs, even in animation? I can see missing a can of pop on the floor when it's supposed to be on a chair, but I'd think even the most unobservant could manage 'oh hey, human beings only have *two* legs'

[heresluck]

SO MUCH WORD.

[fan_eunice]

*CLINGS TO YOU*

[jackiekjono]

Great Ivanova's Lipstick! That is annoying.