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i LOVE long continuous tracking shots. suggestions?

posted 12 years ago by Insomniac_Jack
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first of all, i hope that "tracking shot" is the right term. if it's not, please correct me.
i love shots like this, they work well in horror or action movies. the most recent example i'v seen is from "Yakuza Weapon." it's a scene where the hero is in a warehouse, and it's a single, continuous 10 minute shot of him kicking ass thru multiple floors of bad guys. other good examples are in "Oldboy" and "Bunraku." can anybody suggest other movies where this is used?

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[–] RedVIII (76) 3 years ago

For anyone interested I would add any film directed by Kyoshi Kurosawa.

[–] damocci (1514) 3 years ago

What's really important when it come to long takes for me is that they be NO "whip-pans" (ie the camera turning rapidly, and NO people/objects running or moving past the camera. Whenever this happens it's so obvious that the shot is made up of multiple shorter shots. In order to impress me it needs to either be a real single shot like the stairway fight in "The Protector," or if it's multiple shots stitched together they must look seamless like the entire movie "1917" or "Children of Men."