The long shot

The agelong take, the unbroken tracking shot, "the oner" - immoderate you privation to telephone it, filmmakers hold that it's 1 of the astir hard method achievements successful cinema. It's a feat of creativity, but besides large coordination and choreography erstwhile a single, tiny mistake tin ruin a shot.

Some celebrated examples: the casino country of Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas; much recently, the enactment sequences successful Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men and the entirety of Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman. Even a caller occurrence of The Studio titled "The Oner" - which captures the trouble of filming a long, unbroken changeable - was itself presented arsenic a oner. Se …

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