Whole Movie Shot in Split Screen
01-11-07, 11:06 AM
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Whole Movie Shot in Split Screen
Yesterday I rented the Indie film "Conversations With Other Women" from Blockbuster. I had heard some interesting things about it recently because of the way it was shot (okay, and Aaron Eckhart)-The entire movie was in split screen. At first it was hard to get used to because I was not accustomed to watching an entire feature like this - but after 5 minutes, i didn't realize it anymore.
I think the director chose to shoot it split-screen because the characters, portrayed by Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter, were a couple in the past but had split years ago. At the movie's beginning they meet up at a mutual friend's wedding. The split screen method tells each character's rendition of the same stories differently but in real time. Kind of hard to explain... but it is a very interesting movie.
It was very risky to shoot a movie like this, I see how some could be turned away as a result of the split-screen intimidation - but because of the content of the film, at least for me, I feel like it paid off.
I think the director chose to shoot it split-screen because the characters, portrayed by Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter, were a couple in the past but had split years ago. At the movie's beginning they meet up at a mutual friend's wedding. The split screen method tells each character's rendition of the same stories differently but in real time. Kind of hard to explain... but it is a very interesting movie.
It was very risky to shoot a movie like this, I see how some could be turned away as a result of the split-screen intimidation - but because of the content of the film, at least for me, I feel like it paid off.
01-11-07, 04:39 PM
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Timecode is capable of giving you a headache (As it did to me) since your eyeballs are constantly in motion following the action.
01-11-07, 07:59 PM
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I was thinking of CHELSEA GIRLS too. It wasn't really split screen, but rather two films projected on two different screens simultaneously (although they had to do it as split screen for video versions).
01-12-07, 10:14 AM
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Didn't "Woodstock" have a lot of splitscreen?
01-12-07, 10:20 AM
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Was Abel Gance's Napoleon the first film to utilize this technique?
I think it works best in smaller doses, rather than across an entire feature film.
There's an episode of Coupling called "Split" where a couple breaks up at the beginning of an episode, and the rest of which is in split screen following each of them.
I think it works best in smaller doses, rather than across an entire feature film.
There's an episode of Coupling called "Split" where a couple breaks up at the beginning of an episode, and the rest of which is in split screen following each of them.
01-12-07, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by cultshock
I was thinking of CHELSEA GIRLS too. It wasn't really split screen, but rather two films projected on two different screens simultaneously (although they had to do it as split screen for video versions).
01-12-07, 04:19 PM
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01-15-07, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
Despite the novelty, Timecode turned out to be a pretty boring film.
