Re: "Les Miz" -- a technical question

"Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L" <[email protected]>
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From: Larry George [[email protected]]

A reply from professional film and video editor Jim Stewart to your query:

"Sure, it's pretty simple. It's the magic of editing. They shoot the whole song in multiple angles and the editor cuts them together. Often one sound take will be used continuously and the other shots are cheated to match visual sync. Or there will be sound cuts between different shots but the sound won't cut at the same place as the picture so the notes can carry across picture cuts seamlessly.
Interesting that the most cuts were with Russell Crowe and that Anne Hathaway had that incredible closeup that lasted forever."

Hope that helps answer your question.

Larry N. George
Professor
Department of Political Science
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA   90840
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