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[hidden email], "Ron DeMedeiros" <rjdshado@a...> wrote:
> I just got UFO Set 2 DVD today and just finished watching the first
> alternate outtake from Kill Straker. What is interesting is when
the camera
> is on Foster, the image is in color and when it pans to Straker or
Freeman,
> those shots are in black and white.
>
>
> Ron
In addition to what Marc said, I think we should remember how films
of this type are shot. That is, with the actors going through the
same scene several times over and a single camera covering the action
in a different way each time. For example getting a wide shot, and
then close-ups favoring each of the characters in turn. Originally
the different audio takes on the DVDs would have accompanied the
uncut film footage, i.e. a continuous shot of Michael Billington, Ed
Bishop etc. The cutting from one actor to another is done later at
the editing stage, taking sections from the different takes of sound
and picture.
Now, as the original uncut film obviously doesn't exist anymore all
they've been able to use it what exists in the episode. So although
the picture does cut from one actor to another, they've made any
shots that shouldn't really be there (with respect to the audio
you're hearing) be in black & white. In other words it's only the
colour shots that relate to that particular audio take, as you can
hear that the other actors are off-mic and saying their lines
differently to the takes favoring themselves (as used in the final
episode). I think it's a case of doing what they could with the
materials available, otherwise the recordings would probably have
been presented as audio only.
I think it's interesting to spot the differences in the recordings
and hear the occasional bit of studio chat, but of course they are
also free of any music and effects that were added later on too.
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