siren0119
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- Sep 26, 2018
It helps if you realize that movies aren't necessarily shot in sequential order. Let's say you have a scene in 2 and a scene in 3, but they're both at the same location, like the big glowy tree of life (whatever it was called). You might shoot both scenes for the two different episodes the same week since they both take place at the one location.
This! Movies aren't generally shot in sequence for a number of reasons. Location availability, actor availability, complexity of scenes/shots, availability of special rigging/studios/etc can all affect the order in which things are filmed. And Cameron isn't the one who makes the schedules, so his relative confusion about what is being shot when isn't that unusual or surprising. I feel for the production manager though, juggling two movie shoots simultaneously is a huge undertaking!