| ▲ | jfengel 2 days ago |
| Restaurants (at least in the US) have very strict standards about how long you can keep something at room temperature before you have to throw it away. Those standards are extremely conservative, and lead to a lot of food waste, but if I were on the staff I'd at least want to keep an eye on how long something has been sitting out. Those standards have just been beaten into me. You also see that on a lot of fictional TV shows with dining scenes. Often nobody actually puts anything in their mouths. It was made hours ago while you were off shooting something else, and still more time while they got costumes, lights, makeup, etc. right (and for several takes). By the time film is rolling it has gotten quite gross. (Assuming it was even food in the first place. Fake food often looks better and doesn't go off.) |
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| ▲ | danjc 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Once you notice characters aren't eating, you'll never not see it again. Related, where they're drinking coffee from a disposable cup, you can almost always tell it's empty by how they handle it. |
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| ▲ | Doxin a day ago | parent [-] | | > Related, where they're drinking coffee from a disposable cup, you can almost always tell it's empty by how they handle it. NCIS has a running gag about that. In the show they invariably drink... some mysterious caffeinated product, I don't know if I'd call it coffee, with a straw. It always makes a slurping sound like the cup is nearly empty. Even when just handed a fresh cup. That show is often lampooned for the silly "two idiots one keyboard" scene, but I am convinced they are doing dumb stuff like that on purpose. |
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| ▲ | alpinisme 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That and nobody wants to eat a meal 40 times to get 40 takes. |
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| ▲ | crazygringo 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | This is the answer. The food is perfectly fine. It's fresh, there's catering on set, and it can be replaced as needed, unless it's something super unusual. BUT if you eat the food in one shot you need to eat it in all the shots for continuity, so you can edit it together. Get ready to start barfing after 40 big bites of the same damn thing. If you look closely, you'll also see the coffee/tea cups actors sip from are usually empty. Can't afford the risk of accidentally spilling liquid on the costume and delaying the shoot. | | |
| ▲ | 3eb7988a1663 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I assumed the drink cups were empty/opaque so there was no continuity problem. If you splice together different shots, but the liquid level bounces around, it could be distracting. | |
| ▲ | adamcharnock 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > If you look closely, you'll also see the coffee/tea cups actors sip from are usually empty. Can't afford the risk of accidentally spilling liquid on the costume and delaying the shoot. If I were a prop-master (is that what it is called?) I've always thought that I'd just have a bag of plaster of paris handy. Then 30 minutes before going on set just dump some in the prop-cup with some water. Sets quickly, density is about the same, physics of the cup should look convincing. Probably best for disposable cups though. | | |
| ▲ | badc0ffee a day ago | parent [-] | | Scott Reeder (who is a prop master and makes short videos on about his craft on various platforms) has weighed down disposable cups a couple different ways. One was dropping a mini water bottle into the cup, and another was dyed food grade silicone (for when the shot required a cup with the lid off). |
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| ▲ | 4gotunameagain 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > If you look closely, you'll also see the coffee/tea cups actors sip from are usually empty. Can't afford the risk of accidentally spilling liquid on the costume and delaying the shoot. Sometimes they are colored water, so you cannot drink but it still looks like a cocktail. Or at least that's how it was on the few movie sets I've been at. | |
| ▲ | wisty 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is why everyone eats takeaway noodles in a box in sitcoms. | |
| ▲ | account42 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > unless it's something super unusual I want to believe the gagh is real. | |
| ▲ | jajko 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | One thing I noticed over and over, from cheap sitcoms to expensive blockbusters - when actors sip, they have liquid, but clearly the movement of glass to mouth is 'dishonest', as in too fast or too low for any liquid to actually make it into mouth. No swallowing movement of throat neither. I guess its subconscious - they know they are not going to actually drink it, they focus their mind on other aspects of acting, so this part leaves them not faking it well. If you see it once, you can't stop noticing it elsewhere afterwards, beware. |
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| ▲ | throw0101d 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > That and nobody wants to eat a meal 40 times to get 40 takes. Except maybe Brad Pitt (see Ocean's Eleven). | | | |
| ▲ | DonHopkins 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | With a notable exception... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvxwf1jxdaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i7ycxiog40 |
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| ▲ | account42 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This can be more obvious in older shows where the original lower broadcast resolution would have hidden the charade. |
