Bloopers & Gaffes !!

[jaz]

In the new masters of The Murder Market you can see the technicians hands waiting to catch Diana Rigg when she is hanging on half way up the wall in the marriage bureau office during her fight with Suzanne Lloyd.

[mousemeat]

In 'Cat amongst the pigeons', when Purdey runs out of Steed's front door, you can see a microphone being held up in the left bottom corner

typical errors from that production...

[Dandy Forsdyke]

Here's screen grab of a blooper someone sent to Roobarb's from the new discs. Ignoring the stunning new picture quality for a sec, can you see Diana Rigg's shadow on the backdrop?

[Mona]

Here's screen grab of a blooper someone sent to Roobarb's from the new discs. Ignoring the stunning new picture quality for a sec, can you see Diana Rigg's shadow on the backdrop?

Steed's hair....what? Is Emma in that photo?

Steed's hair....

Mona

[Mona]

If we are talking about bloopers, continuity and such with shows how about:

1. In "Never, Never Say Die" we have Steed entering the MOD unit in one suit color and leaving in another suit (brown to blue or blue to brown, can't recall).

2. Steed's apartment in the later Peel Seasons. As we know, Steed's apartment was in the MIDDLE of his flat building and yet we have a door from his kitchen apparently to the outside. But, it can't be to the outside, since his flat in in the middle, so it has to be into a hallway, I imagine. But, that's odd, too, having a door from a hallway into one's kitchen...

Mona

[darren]

Here's screen grab of a blooper someone sent to Roobarb's from the new discs. Ignoring the stunning new picture quality for a sec, can you see Diana Rigg's shadow on the backdrop?

Oi, that's my screengrab.

It's funny that scene as all the actors shadows are very obvious when they're moving.

I watched Room Without a View last night and did a double take at one moment.

When Steed goes to visit Chessman as they both walk towards the table for dinner, the camera is tracking backwards. At the bottom of the frame you can see someone disappearing out of shot as they moved the table on to the set for Steed to sit down at (if the table was there the whole time then the camera move wouldn't have worked).

With the increased screen area showing on the new DVD's, the boom mike has popped into shot a few times.

[Dandy Forsdyke]

Darren, was that your screen grab?? I'd have given you proper credit had I realised.

It's a goody though - and it's great to have the opportunity of showing an example rather than to just describe it.

[darren]

Darren, was that your screen grab?? I'd have given you proper credit had I realised.

It's a goody though - and it's great to have the opportunity of showing an example rather than to just describe it.

Don't worry, I'm only joshing.

[Frankymole]

Here's screen grab of a blooper someone sent to Roobarb's from the new discs. Ignoring the stunning new picture quality for a sec, can you see Diana Rigg's shadow on the backdrop?

Yes but that was probably not visible on original broadcast, due to the overscan area and the shape of TV screens. The new DVDs have a lot of material at the edges which was not meant to be shown, just like film series when seen on the big screen. The idea of overscan isn't given much respect these days. Hance much complaining on forums about boom mikes in shot, edges of sets and tech crew ladders at the edge of shot, etc when they actually aren't when seen on a proper screen shown at the proper zoom amount. You're not watching them how they should be watched, how they were framed by the director for broadcast. He didn't intend every bit of the filmed image to be seen - he shot more of it, to allow for overscan.

[Frankymole]

In the new masters of The Murder Market you can see the technicians hands waiting to catch Diana Rigg when she is hanging on half way up the wall in the marriage bureau office during her fight with Suzanne Lloyd.

Sounds like another overscan issue!