I had the opportunity to create a short movie in my current master module about Cognitive Psychology. We had to built in six mistakes that won't be noticed when not looking for them.
As a medium we settled for our all favourite game Minecraft since my teammate and I were not keen on showing ourselves infront of the camera. As we both don't have the abilities to act we settled on not talking and to use gestures with the Minecraft characters. But what is the story?
Story
Story wise I had the idea to produce a classic children cartoon episode in the likes of a certain duck with blue wardrobe or another popular couple of cat and mouse. Another inspiration was the game bad neighbours which I played back in the days with my good friend baumi when we were kids and just had one hour of screen time per day.
The characters are Milk and Stew. Two neighbours and rivals who have a Vendetta against one another. Milk is the sorted type of person. He has his chests in order, goes to sleep at the same time and tries to be the good force in the world, though Stew does bait him into playing pranks. In contrast to him is Stew. He lives one fence post besides him and is a do no good. He blows up TNT, sleeps the whole day and doesn't cut trees the whole way. What a guy!
In this episode of Milk & Stew we see Stew playing two pranks on Milk and the retaliation.
On to the mistakes!
Mistakes
As mentioned we had to put in some errors into the short film. There are other errors in the short film but the following ones are forced by us.
Door
We start with the classic. Milk leaves the backdoor of his house to do some yii2_developing and opens and closes the door. In the next shot we can see from Stews perspective that the door is open. Classic mistake though the focus in this scene is on Milk and the viewer shouldn't notice the door.
Tree
After Stew noticed that Milk is busy in his yii2_develop he sneaks out of sight to Milks animal cottage. Whilst he went to the front the viewer could notice that for one scene a tree appears on Milks front yard. This change appeared to be effective in the way that viewers did not recognize the tree!
Wall
Now we take a quick jump in the story. After Stew went over to the animal pen and switched the horse with pig, Milk went inside his house. Stew sneaked to Milks burning campfire and Milk left the front door and went to his animals, noticed the switch and sees Stew at the campfire. In this process we do a quick cut between his view and a close up of his face. Whilst the shot switch the wall of his house switches between stone bricks and gray concrete. we tried to hide this change by using a similar block color.
Pig
In this scene we had another change. We changed the pig to be flipped upside down by using the Easter egg "dinnerbone". I got feedback that this can be seen not as an mistake because pigs do lay in the mud. Stupid little piggies breaking our mistakes!
