#ratiogate

The next shot 👆 is a score, it is Will who says how much Mad Max has got: but if they want, they can cut this phrase out, leaving just the picture and moving to the “that’s impossible” line without losing the plot of the scene, meanwhile cropping Will out of the following shot 👇 (here I assume that they can move 4x03 a bit to the right to balance it without Will)

Here’s Will hidden behind the core ‘3’, but he asks “Is that you?”, and it can be easily edited out:

Here’s Will out of the shot and in the shot but again looking like he’s watching from the outside:

Then he leaves the picture whatsoever for his vision, and yes, Mike will be the only one noticing (I’m omw of cooking a post about the reasons):

The next sequence we have is at school when the party is watching Max; Will says “girls don’t do video games”, but look what happens if we cut this phrase out: absolutely nothing!

we need to crop a bit Mike’s “and even if they did”, to get the same dialogue! “There’s no way that’s Mad Max” “You can’t get 750k points on DD”.

To make it work even better they can make a close up out of the wide shot to crop Will out from it.

(Interestingly Will is the only one holding onto the fence with his both hands as he’s the one trapped — in Nina)

Or they can leave him there silent (with his lines cut), as the next 4x3👇 won’t be merciful anyway (even the current ratio isn’t, what is this centring?)

it even looks more like his trapped hand is the prisoner and the 4th main character of the shot and I’d say that Mike is out of focus either, but ig for not the exactly same reasons, aside from technical ones, as they could’ve placed him at the same line they placed Lucas and Dustin, who, btw, hold onto the fence like Will does, but with just one hand… Ig, I’ll see where I’ll get me later.

and look, Will’s lighting differs again, like he’s again not from this specific shot! It even looks like he was cut from his own scene and added here:

(*remember the shot from the first scene where I said that they can’t really crop Will out, until he wasn’t even there? he looks like he is, but… you know)

altho we see that the boys were filmed together, at least in some scenes? here are shadows:

but regardless of that, I’m really dying to know why Will looks like he’s been edited into this scene

*cough* that’s bc he’s most like was *cough*

and you can still cut his line out of there:

and here the boys are pretty ‘collected’ around each other in their ‘core 3’:

here we can see shadows again, but Will’s presence can be silent and ghosting-like:

and finally the scene addressing him might be cut out, leaving the previous spying on Max finished right before the full scene ends:

Now, I’m not saying (and especially guaranteeing) that the scenes will be cut the way I assume they might be cut, the very least that is possible is Will being cut out of the shots’ edges by 4x3 vhs ratio

but as much as I analyse the way his image is treated in these episodes, I can not ignore all the other signals and the possibilities around the idea of his erasure and I’m deeply intrigued by the way they will handle it further!

[ check where’s Will in other episodes ]

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