The movie mistakes...

Part I - movie mistakes.

Nearly every move contains some mistakes.

How to capture them? You have to be patient and have careful eye.

Why do such movie mistakes occur? Quite often the answer lies in the high pressure world of commercial film making. Directors generally work

under tight budget and time restraints, and re-shooting scenes can be a logistical

nightmare. If an occasional movie slip-up manages to sneak into the final cut of a film, it may be best to leave it in rather than arrange for an expensive re-shoot or other post-production fix.

Some movie mistakes are caused by

the standard practice of shooting out of sequence. Very few movies are filmed in a linear progression according to the script. The producers may only have access to a particular location for a short amount of time, so the director and actors must shoot all

of the scenes based at that location at one time,

regardless of where the scenes fit in the overall narrative. This leads to continuity errors, such as having a dirty costume suddenly appear clean again. Shooting out of sequence can also lead to inconsistencies in an actor's appearance or use of certain props.

Continuity problems in movies can also be triggered by the long process of lighting, arranging and filming a set. During a dinner scene, for

example, the actors may first perform the "master shot," a wide shot of the entire dinner table with all actors eating and speaking. For close-ups of individual actors or smaller groupings, the entire

set may be completely re-arranged and re-lit. It is nearly impossible to keep track of every single movement of every single actor during several days of filming, so the resulting scene in the film could have any number of mistakes, as silverware changes position or food disappears and reappears at random.

Other movie mistakes are the result of factual errors or anachronisms. If a movie is set in a particular time period, such as the 1920s, it is up to the set designers and others to make sure all props and backgrounds are historically accurate.

Sometimes cast or crew members create movie mistakes by stepping into the shot or allowing a piece of equipment to appear. Boom microphones are especially difficult to wrangle without dipping them into the frame so many modern cameras have built-in safety zones which prevent such accidental intrusions from microphones or crew members.

Big amount of mistakes inspired a group of people to create a web site http://www.moviemistakes.com contains many mistakes taken in movies, described step-by-step.

Questions:

1) Have you ever noticed some movie mistakes during the showing?

2) Do you know any polish movie mistakes (there are many of them...) ?

3) When you watching the movie, do you ever try to observe scene-by-scene just to find a new mistake?