On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 8:30:05 PM UTC+12, David Salmon wrote:
At 03:34 04 September 2016, wrote:
One of the things we discovered during the filming of "Cloudstreet" is
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continuity between scenes is difficult to manage. In one of the takeoff
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enes, I climb into the cockpit wearing a dark blue shirt and somehow
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into a white T-shirt for the launch. Embarrassing to professional
filmmake=
rs, but we just had to go with it due to the limited production budget
(whi=
ch was still astronomical to us).

And yes, shooting many flights and cutting together various scenes so
that
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it appears to be one flight is a necessary tool. It can't be helped,
especi=
ally with limited cameras and time aloft.

But that made it more fun.

Talking of films, I've never seen an explanation of why the Duo canopy
opened the wrong way after the flight in "The Thomas Crown Affair".
Dave

They modified the canopy opening side for continuity after the glider was seen flying left to right in virtually every shot (except where a chase plane crossed from one side to the other). You don't want the actors hidden by the opening canopy, and you absolutely don't want the glider suddenly and jarringly facing the opposite direction.