With all this helping with the music videos and with the pilot episode of my name, I have returned to the bad habit of watching movies looking at all the technical details there and to be.
Hence, I have become a bit obsessed with sequence shots (and because of the movie I saw the other day: Atonement).
A sequence shot (in English long take or plan sequence in French) is one that is shot without making cuts between the shots it contains so that the camera follows all the action. These plans are extremely difficult and require a lot of preparation and prior rehearsals. Obviously, the more action or people involved, the more merit they have.
There are many examples of these plans so I will limit myself to showing the ones that have struck me the most of all the ones I have seen:
Atonement (I can’t insert to the blog)
Children of Men:
Thai Dragon:
There are distorted sequences shots in which, for example, the camera gets very close to something black and there they take the opportunity to cut and link with another scene. A clear example of this can be seen in a chapter of The x-files titled Triangle that was recorded in full in this way (see minute 1:43):
I think in Children of Men, en este otro vídeo: at minute 4:07 there is one of them because there is blood that disappears smoothly at 4:20, in my opinion at 07 they digitally cut and add the blood later.
Also one last curious fact that I have read out there. There is a movie filmed in its entirety in one shot (and without editing) and its duration is nothing more and nothing less than 96 minutes, heh. The title: The Russian Ark (I am fascinated by sequence shots but not enough to swallow such an experiment). There I leave you the information in case someone is encouraged to see it and already tells me.
