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"This film was shot in real time, without breaks" Incorrect?

posted 8 years ago by StakkaDakka
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The trivia says: "This film was shot in real time, without breaks and, with the exception of the park scenes, in a single location."

how can this be the case? It keeps changing camera shots, many times it goes to a shot where you would see the camera positioned in the previous shot, if you know what I mean.. like it has a shot of Penny talking to the other three, it is a front-on shot of her, then the next shot they switch cameras andyou can see the whole group and the camera from the front-on *beep* would have had to been right in the middle and visible to the audience, know what I mean? So there HAD to be stopping and moving cameras around while they were filming! Right?

[–] jezfernandez 8 years ago

I think they're referring to real time, rather than one continuous shot like Hitchcock's Rope. There are cuts, but not breaks (i.e. We don't return to the characters after a period of time has occurred off-camera).

[–] StakkaDakka 8 years ago

oh.. you're probably right.. but they shouldn't say it was SHOT in real time, rather it was SET in real time.. big difference!

[–] jezfernandez 8 years ago

Yes, you're right.

[–] dcerisano-27495 7 years ago

Carnage is based on Yasmina Reza's play, God Of Carnage.
The play is a "one act" or "real time" with no stage breaks.
Polanski provided a real apartment and screen actors, and then edited the film into basically what you would experience if you were on stage.

I consider the movie a kind of commercial for a theatrical production, which I now want to attend, having seen this movie.