Day 132

[adonnchaid]

I found a new way to throw a viewer/reader out of a story -- do a bad job of setting up your scene. You see, there was this 'Murder, She Wrote' repeat on today, and they opened the show with instrumental Christmas carols, which were playing as the camera came in on a wide exterior countryside shot of what's supposed to be Cabot Cove, Maine. With no snow, lots of plants growing. At Christmas??? In Maine????? I get that they filmed this show on the back lot at Universal, but you can't tell me somewhere in their library of stock shots they didn't have Maine in the winter. This disconnect between the establishing shot and the fact that they wanted us to believe it was Christmas got me thinking about how such small things can ruin a show or a story for its audience...