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A situation that would normally be chalked up to Did Not Do the Research, but can't really be put in that category because movie shooting is being inaccurately portrayed... by people who are in the process of shooting a movie or making some other form of visual entertainment! Scenes are shot in a single take, often in sequence, with the camera kept at a great distance where it couldn't possibly be getting the right angles or close-ups to make the scene convincing, and they never do a retake. This is especially annoying in action scenes, although it can often follow the Rule of Cool.

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  • A situation that would normally be chalked up to Did Not Do the Research, but can't really be put in that category because movie shooting is being inaccurately portrayed... by people who are in the process of shooting a movie or making some other form of visual entertainment! Scenes are shot in a single take, often in sequence, with the camera kept at a great distance where it couldn't possibly be getting the right angles or close-ups to make the scene convincing, and they never do a retake. This is especially annoying in action scenes, although it can often follow the Rule of Cool.
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  • A situation that would normally be chalked up to Did Not Do the Research, but can't really be put in that category because movie shooting is being inaccurately portrayed... by people who are in the process of shooting a movie or making some other form of visual entertainment! Scenes are shot in a single take, often in sequence, with the camera kept at a great distance where it couldn't possibly be getting the right angles or close-ups to make the scene convincing, and they never do a retake. This is especially annoying in action scenes, although it can often follow the Rule of Cool. Not necessarily a bad thing: the entire process of filmmaking is rarely the point, so a bit of Artistic License, so that the viewers have an easier time understanding it, or to prevent a subplot from dominating the movie can be a wise choice. Acceptable Breaks From Reality can include: * Showing scenes being filmed in order, or at least in an order that makes dramatic sense, because otherwise, the Show Within a Show could be very hard for the audience to understand. In Real Life, scenes are usually filmed out of order. * Showing multiple takes can easily bore the viewer. Can be got around somewhat with editing it down to the mistakes that ruin the take, or other such tricks, but it'd be hard to have a realistic number of takes for every scene. * Special effects will tend to be of the sort that's fun and interesting for the audience to see. Animatronics will be preferred to CGI or stop-motion monsters (unless these can be played for comedy), and you'll almost never see an in-camera matte shot. * "But the camera couldn't have got that shot!": Maybe there's a few angles in the final shot which the cameras we see couldn't have got. But it'd be annoying to the viewer to show the alternate angles being filmed in separate takes. * Lots of simplifications: For example, in real life, an action scene may be stitched together from dozens of takes, each a few seconds long, in order to allow special effects and other things to be worked in. When the actors aren't in closeup, they'll probably be replaced by stuntmen. Reaction shots and what's being reacted to might be filmed weeks apart. And that's not even getting into matte shots, where the actors and the background are filmed separately. All this is confusing for the viewers, and would take a long time to establish, so why not pretend the action scene is all one take, and that the special effects are really happening at the same time? Other times, they just think Viewers are Morons and won't notice the glaring mistakes. There can often be some overlap with Magical Security Cam and You Just Ruined the Shot. Examples of You Fail Film School Forever include:
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