Editing Gosford Park (section)

===Filming and editing===
[[File:Wrotham Park - geograph.org.uk - 320544.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|[[Wrotham Park]] in [[Hertfordshire]], where the outdoor and ground floor scenes for ''Gosford Park'' were shot]]
Filming was conducted at [[Wrotham Park]], a country house to the north of London, for the exteriors, staircase, dining room and drawing room,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gosford-park-syndrome-go-see-the-movie-but-please-dont-peek-at-ones-stately-home-659229.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210182352/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gosford-park-syndrome-go-see-the-movie-but-please-dont-peek-at-ones-stately-home-659229.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 February 2011|title=Gosford Park Syndrome: go see the movie, but please don't peek at one's stately home|last=Morrison|first=James|date=3 February 2002|work=[[The Independent]]|publisher=[[Independent News & Media]]|access-date=7 August 2010}}</ref> and [[Syon House]] in west London for the upstairs bedrooms.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.architecturaldigest.com/ad/set-design/2013/period-movies-set-design-manors-castles-vanity-fair-jane-eyre-slideshow#slide=17 |title=The Castles and Manor Houses of Cinema's Greatest Period Films |magazine=[[Architectural Digest]] |access-date=2 January 2013 |date=January 2013 |archive-date=18 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118092938/http://www.architecturaldigest.com/ad/set-design/2013/period-movies-set-design-manors-castles-vanity-fair-jane-eyre-slideshow#slide=17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The opening sequence outside Lady Trentham's home was shot at [[Hall Barn]], near [[Beaconsfield]], [[Buckinghamshire]], whose grounds were also used as the scene for lunch after the shoot. [[Sound stage]]s were built to film the scenes of the manor's downstairs area.<ref name=ebert>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gosford-park-2002 |title=Gosford Park |access-date=26 April 2008 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=2 January 2002 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |publisher=[[Sun-Times Media Group]]}}</ref> [[Shepperton Studios]] was used for off-location filming.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2002/01/25/gosfords-rooms-dressed-to-kill/ |title=Gosford's rooms dressed to kill |access-date=24 June 2023 |date=25 January 2002 |work=[[Sun Sentinel]]}}</ref> Filming began on 19 March 2001.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/453163/gosford-park#notes | title=Gosford Park }}</ref> During production, [[Stephen Frears]] acted as a standby director, ready to replace Altman in case he was incapacitated, so that the film would receive insurance.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Schwartz |first=Missy |date=9 June 2006 |title=''Prairie Home Companion'': Talking with Robert Altman |url=https://ew.com/article/2006/06/09/talking-robert-altman/ |access-date=6 October 2024 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref>

The film was shot with two cameras, both moving perpetually in opposite directions. The cameras pointed toward no specific area, intended to cause the audience to move their eyes throughout the scene. Altman notes that most of the film's cast had experience in theatre and in film, meaning they had acted in situations where the view of the audience is not on one specific actor, and each audience member sees a slightly different image of the players on stage.<ref name=qa/> Richard E. Grant commented that having two cameras moving at any one time meant that none of the actors knew when the cameras were focused on them. As a result, the actors had to stay "completely in character, completely in the moment, and interact with everybody in a way that felt as close to real life as you could possibly conjure up."<ref>{{cite video| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1VBVaeeG6k| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/J1VBVaeeG6k| archive-date=17 November 2021 | url-status=live| title=Richard E. Grant Breaks Down his Career, from 'Downton Abbey' to 'Star Wars'| author=Vanity Fair| publisher=YouTube.com| date=17 March 2020| access-date=22 March 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Andrew Dunn (cinematographer)|Andrew Dunn]], the film's [[cinematographer]], appreciated the co-operative nature of ''Gosford Park''{{'}}s filming process. He shot the film on [[Eastman Kodak|Kodak]] Vision Expression 500T [[film stock]] generally with two [[Panavision]] cameras, using lighting ranging from relatively dim candles to bright [[hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide lamp]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kodak.com/US/plugins/acrobat/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/jan2002/gosford.pdf|title=Andrew Dunn BSC tracks mysterious movements at ''Gosford Park'' |access-date=26 April 2008 |date=January 2002 |work=In Camera |publisher=[[Eastman Kodak]] |pages=4–5 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225103754/http://www.kodak.com/US/plugins/acrobat/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/jan2002/gosford.pdf |archive-date=25 February 2009}}</ref> [[Film editing|Editor]] [[Tim Squyres]] described the editing process on ''Gosford Park'' as an unusual one, as the dual cameras used were generally located in the same areas when filming, instead of the more standard method of setting up a scene directly.<ref name=squyres>{{cite web |url=http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/breaking_away_2806/ |title=Breaking Away |access-date=1 May 2008 |last=Wood |first=Jennifer M. |date=3 February 2007 |work=[[MovieMaker]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070618104131/http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/breaking_away_2806/ |archive-date=18 June 2007}}</ref>