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[strke-fender]

Hey guys,

I'm a college student taking a Film studies class and I've got a paper coming up.

I need to find and study examples of long developing camera shots.

I'm talking about shots that are 1:30+ that encompass a lot of detail and a lot of "on screen information"

The best example i've seen is the opening to "A Touch Of Evil"

anybody know of anything i can use??

thanks!!

[Joey3313]

Originally Posted by strke-fender

Hey guys,

I'm a college student taking a Film studies class and I've got a paper coming up.

I need to find and study examples of long developing camera shots.

I'm talking about shots that are 1:30+ that encompass a lot of detail and a lot of "on screen information"

The best example i've seen is the opening to "A Touch Of Evil"

anybody know of anything i can use??

thanks!!

The shot in Donnie Darko when they arrive at the school, and I think there is another one in the movie Waiting...that does an overview of the entire restaurant and all of the characters in a long shot. About half way through IIRC.


I hope these are kinda what you're looking for, as I truly have no idea.

[bongomania]

Hmmm... maybe in "Brazil", at the end, when the view pulls away from the car, to the billboards, to the land outside the billboards. Been a while since I've seen it though.

[Brick Top]

It's been awhile since I've seen it. But I think there were a few shots like you describe in Shallow Grave.

[CityEscape]

Are you talking about a long still shot, or a long continuous shot?

If you're talking about just a continuous shot, there is a scene in Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino) that shows the girls talking in a restaurant, and the shot is constantly moving about them, showing all of their surroundings.

Awesome film, too.

[strke-fender]

Originally Posted by CityEscape

Are you talking about a long still shot, or a long continuous shot?

a long continuous one. especially if the camera moves during it.

[TortillaChip520]

umm.. would the end of Silence of the Lambs count?

[RED5]

Originally Posted by strke-fender

a long continuous one. especially if the camera moves during it.

You mean like Scorcese? "Casino" comes to mind, Or "Gangs" going into the caves?

[Deluge Of Sound]

Long takes and Long shots are two different things.

But you'll find both in the opening to the Conversation.

[warwick.hoy]

Children of Men has a lot of single angle shots.

[CityEscape]

Originally Posted by strke-fender

a long continuous one. especially if the camera moves during it.

Cool, then I think the Death Proof example is a good one. It's also great at 0:42, you can see an out-of-focus Kurt Russell at the bar, who is the villain in the film.

Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxAIWLEy4mA

[Deluge Of Sound]

For the record, what you're talking about is a long take.

a long shot is a shot that, if, for example, it showed a person, it would show the entire human body, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom, like so:

[stevetx19]

Originally Posted by warwick.hoy

Children of Men has a lot of single angle shots.

that's a great example.

Also, the Kenneth Branagh "Much Ado About Nothing" has an interesting finale that has a really long take/large choreography. it was an ok film, but the camera work at the end is really neat.

[Deluge Of Sound]

Also, bringing back my hazy memories of Film I, I found this site to be invaluable:
http://www.filmsite.org/references.html

[flipper_gv]

Originally Posted by warwick.hoy

Children of Men has a lot of single angle shots.

QFT

My favourite movie. It has a 8 minute continuous shot with lots of action and special effect, very impressive.

[Deluge Of Sound]

Which shot?

The one in the car is one long take, the one towards the end is three different takes incredibly edited together.

[HailCorduroy]

The club scene in Goodfellas where Henry takes Karen out the first time. There's also a very nice scene in Taxi Driver when Travis calls Betsy on the phone and the camera moves off him and just shoots down a long hallway because the conversation is too pathetic to watch. I don't know if it 1:30+ or not, but it seems pretty long.

[ogrossman]

In a film called "The Train" there's an extended action shot of Burt Lancaster that exemplifies what an incredible actor and athlete he was.

[hover]

"the record-holder for longest tracking shot goes to Aleksandr Sokurov for his 99 minute shot in Russian Ark. Yes, the famed Russian filmmaker actually shot his entire movie, chronicling 300 years of Russian history, in one take"

from a Google search.

[whyseye]

Seconding the club scene in GoodFellas....