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I was watching a movie recently and noticed that during a scene a character’s arm changes position, while he is sitting, from his lap to resting on his knee without showing the intervening movement and this mystified me. I know movies are always cut after filming to fit them into a desired time span. Most of us have watched deleted scenes from films such as The Godfather, for example. These are entire scenes that might encompass a few minutes. In these cases, it is easy to discern why they were cut. They are all scenes that are nonessential, scenes that merely add background or ambience which can be cut without affecting the continuity of the movie. But are movies sort of micromanaged to this extent? I have no technical expertise whatsoever in this field and don’t know how many film frames equal a second, for example. But how long could it possibly take for the character to have moved his arm like this and how much time can be saved by cutting the intervening frame or frames? One or two seconds? Directors cut out a very small amount of frames throughout a movie, as in this example, in order to save time? A second here, a second there? If so, this gives me an entirely new appreciation as to just how difficult it is and how much work it is to make a movie.
I just ask this out of curiosity in the event anyone knows and is kind enough to respond.
Thanks much.
I just ask this out of curiosity in the event anyone knows and is kind enough to respond.
Thanks much.
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