History Main / ArtisticLicenseFilmProduction

--->'''Wolfcastle''': The goggles! They're not working!

* The old 'Titanic' ride at Fox Studios Sydney is set during the filming of the 1997 movie, but lacks the camera/sound crew and other production personnel that would be there if this were a real film shoot.

* ''The Fall Guy''

* ''ICarly'' tends to take creative liberties with live podcasting. For example, using a studio quality camera for shooting[[note]] which they ''might'' [[HandWave have got cheap on eBay or something]], maybe[[/note]] and relatively stable shots despite no tripod.

* During ''Film/{{Gordy}}'', a camera has its ordinary lens secretly replaced with a wide-angle lens, which will cause the commercial being filmed to be distorted. The cameraman apparently notices while he's looking through the camera, but all he does is rub his eyes. No one apparently noticed when the footage was being edited together. [[IdiotPlot Sabotage of this kind would require striking the whole film crew with blindness.]]

* Not a movie example, but related; ''{{Glee}}'''s "The First Time" features Rachel and Blaine, the stars in the school play, rehearsing about a week before their debut. They're not blocking any scenes, or even off book! This despite the fact that both Darren Criss and Lea Michele (not to mention many other cast members) came to the show from theater/musical backgrounds.

* ''Series/WaltDisneyPresents'' shows the production of Disney movies as clearly staged and simplified and thus not entirely accurate. This is especially significant with episodes showing the production of [[DisneyAnimatedCanon animated films]]. To see this particular trope in action here, take a look at no less than ''two'' episodes on the production of ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'', "A Story of Dogs" and "Cavalcade of Songs".

* The opening scene of ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' features Daniel recording for a cartoon. For the most part in the West voice recording for animation is done before the actual animating (Japan however animates then records). Creator/ChrisColumbus DID acknowledge this in his commentary and figured it could be taken as Daniel dubbing a foreign cartoon.
** Which doesn't make sense either as the lip-synch in the cartoon (produced by Creator/ChuckJones) is clearly English. Daniel is more than likely just doing post-production looping, either to just do touch ups on certain lines, or maybe [[TheOtherMarty Daniel replaced another actor,]] and is recording over the previous actor's work. Which makes sense from his conversation with the producer who complains that this session is already costing the studio and they're on a deadline.
** Also, you don't typically have a censor board overseeing the actual dubbing/recording of a cartoon... that would waste far too much of their time. (Maybe they were just there to hotbox inside the booth?)

* A security camera example: In TheSimpsons episode "The Blunder Years" we see thirty year old security footage, complete with sound and in color, and it's filmed from different angles. It looks more like a {{Retraux}} television show.

* ''Series/WaltDisneyPresents'' shows the production of Disney movies clearly staged and simplified and thus not entirely accurate. This is especially significant with episodes showing the production of [[DisneyAnimatedCanon animated films]]. To see this particular trope in action here, take a look at no less than ''two'' episodes on the production of ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'', "A Story of Dogs" and "Cavalcade of Songs".

* Showing multiple takes can easily bore the viewer. Can be got around somewhat with editing it down to the mistakes that ruin the take, or other such tricks, but it'd be hard to have a realistic number of takes for every scene.

* Subverted in ''PerfectBlue''. The scenes from the show-within-a-show filmed out of order, but it could be argued that it adds to the movie's dreamlike atmosphere. In fact, near the end of the movie when they call a wrap, the scene they're filming doesn't even seem finished.

* Tyler Durden in ''Literature/FightClub'' is a part-time projectionist who likes to prank audiences by inserting single frames of pornography into children's films. The narrator explains that the single frame is so brief that it goes unnoticed, asking the reader to "divide a second into sixty equal parts". In fact, the industry standard framerate in films is 24 frames-per-second, rather than 60, so the pornographic frame would appear onscreen for 1/25th of a second. This could potentially be chalked up to the narrator's own ignorance, except that [[spoiler:Tyler is the narrator's split personality, and would be expected to have an understanding of framerates.]]

* Showing scenes being filmed in order, or at least in an order that makes dramatic sense, because otherwise, the ShowWithinAShow could be very hard for the audience to understand. In RealLife, scenes are usually filmed out of order for practical reasons (limited availability of sets or location shootings, actors' schedules, high costs of shooting certain scenes etc.)

* Showing scenes being filmed in order, or at least in an order that makes dramatic sense, because otherwise, the ShowWithinAShow could be very hard for the audience to understand. In RealLife, scenes are usually filmed out of order.

* The Franchise/IndianaJones Stunt Show at Disney Hollywood Studios suffers from this, but since it's more about watching cool stunts than getting an accurate portrayal of a film set, it's somewhat forgivable.

** Which doesn't make sense either as the lip-synch in the cartoon (produced by ChuckJones) is clearly English. Daniel is more than likely just doing post-production looping, either to just do touch ups on certain lines, or maybe [[TheOtherMarty Daniel replaced another actor,]] and is recording over the previous actor's work. Which makes sense from his conversation with the producer who complains that this session is already costing the studio and they're on a deadline.

* The opening scene of ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' features Daniel recording for a cartoon. For the most part in the West voice recording for animation is done before the actual animating (Japan however animates then records). ChrisColumbus DID acknowledge this in his commentary and figured it could be taken as Daniel dubbing a foreign cartoon.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Spider-Man}}'', MJ was to star in an action flick. One scene involved a brawl in an elevator. Only the two actors were anywhere near the elevator. Apparently there were no microphones, no lines, no choreography, and two unmanned or remote-controlled cameras. Small wonder that it [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]].

* ''{{Extras}}'' has this trope in-universe, as the director of "When the Whistle Blows" is deliberately shown to be totally incompetent.

* ''[[Series/TheFallGuy]]''

* ''[[Series/ComicBookMen]]'' featured shooting a commercial one episode, it all seemed genuine until the very end when the cast members gathered outside the store and delivered a line to conclude the commercial. This required several takes and the last one where they got everything perfect an old lady on the street walked into the shot. This of course ruined the shot, even though they could have easily used the audio over one of the other takes during editing.

* ''The Fall Guy''

* ''Comic Book Men'' featured shooting a commercial one episode, it all seemed genuine until the very end when the cast members gathered outside the store and delivered a line to conclude the commercial. This required several takes and the last one where they got everything perfect an old lady on the street walked into the shot. This of course ruined the shot, even though they could have easily used the audio over one of the other takes during editing.

* The first scene of ''AustinPowers in Goldmember'', which has an action scene filmed in one shot for a [[ShowWithinAShow Movie Within A Movie]] of Creator/StevenSpielberg's Austin Powers. RuleOfFunny.

A situation that would normally be chalked up to DidNotDoTheResearch, but can't really be put in that category because movie shooting is being inaccurately portrayed... by people who are ''in the process of shooting a movie'' or making some other form of visual entertainment! Scenes are shot in a single take, often in sequence, with the camera kept at a great distance where it couldn't possibly be getting the right angles or close-ups to make the scene convincing, and they never do a retake. This is especially annoying in action scenes, although it can often follow the RuleOfCool.

A situation that would normally be chalked up to artistic license, but can't really be put in that category because movie shooting is being inaccurately portrayed... by people who are ''in the process of shooting a movie'' or making some other form of visual entertainment! Scenes are shot in a single take, often in sequence, with the camera kept at a great distance where it couldn't possibly be getting the right angles or close-ups to make the scene convincing, and they never do a retake. This is especially annoying in action scenes, although it can often follow the RuleOfCool.