Sorting ceremony and uniforms.

[Scully931]

I really thought they were wearing black ties with the Hogwarts 
crest on them at first. I remember thinking it was a good idea. But, 
maybe it was just MY good idea. hehe. Someone watch and tell us for 
sure. My DVD is three hours away right now. 

Deborah

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Petra Pan <ms_petra_pan at y...> 
wrote:
> Angela:
> > We got to the sorting ceremony and
> > she asks- "Their ties, robe bagdes
> > and scarves are the colour of their
> > houses, as they have not yet been
> > sorted how do they know what colour
> > tie to buy and wear?"  If you look
> > at the students waiting to be sorted
> > they are indeed already wearing
> > there house colours. I was stumped.
> > Explained it away as artistic
> > licence. Any thoughts?
> 
> Anne U:
> > In the books that would be called a
> > flint. On the screen, that's a
> > continuity problem. I never noticed
> > that but will look more closely 
> > the next time we watch HPPS. (Petra?)
> 
> Hmm...the yet-to-be-sorted students 
> logically should NOT be wearing their 
> house colors yet; this indeed would be 
> a logic error.  (I did not notice, will 
> also have to check the next time I 
> watch it - very observant of you!)  
> A "continuity problem" is a specific 
> type of error of logic and refers to a 
> problem with believing that, in real 
> time, one shot could possibly have 
> continued from the previous.  That's 
> not really the case here.
> 
> Typically, problems of continuity are 
> entirely unintentional.  Sounds like 
> all of the first years are wearing 
> their house colors rather than just 
> one or two here and there, so I'd 
> guess that wardrobe fully intended the 
> kids to wear those particular items of 
> clothing for the sorting ceremony 
> shots - it's just that they shouldn't 
> have assigned those costumes for those 
> shots in the first place.
> 
> To grant "artistic license" is to be 
> generous here (but don't let me stop 
> you!) since the effort to establish 
> tension on the part of the kids as 
> they wait with bated breath to be 
> sorted is undermined by the fact that 
> in wearing their house colors already, 
> they seem to be waiting anxiously to 
> hear about something that they (and 
> the more observant audience members) 
> already know.  Nothing artistic about 
> that, me thinketh.
> 
> Petra
> a
> n  :)
> 
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