You have to be impressed with that I don't see any comments on here about it. Do people not know that they did the whole movie in one take?
shareI don't know why Birdman was considered so groundbreaking. This did it first.
shareHitchcock did it first. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1.
shareRope was not in one shot
When filming Rope (1948), Alfred Hitchcock intended for the film to have the effect of one long continuous take, but the cameras available could hold no more than 1000 feet of 35 mm film. As a result, each take used up to a whole roll of film and lasts up to 10 minutes. Many takes end with a dolly shot to a featureless surface (such as the back of a character's jacket), with the following take beginning at the same point by zooming out. The entire film consists of only 11 shots
I was not suggesting that Rope was shot in a single take. It would have been virtually impossible. I was saying that Hitchcock pioneered this technique.
sharesorry, my fault
this film was filmed in one take
http://www.omgfacts.com/theworld/5793/A-96-minute-film-was-shot-in-one-continuous-take-ab964-2
YES!!! Russian Ark was done in a single take and how the hell the filmmakers pulled that off blows my mind. All those extras, all that movement, securing that location. AMAZING.
sharei guess digital makes it easy (thunderbolt connection?)
also Unfriended seems to have been filmed in one take
http://www.slashfilm.com/unfriended-movie-single-take/
Wow, you point the camera at a wall or a door and cut there. It was really obvious
shareAs others have said, this wasn't the first film to do it by a longshot—Russian Ark was literally done in one take, which I can't even fully comprehend. Other films like Rope and the Uruguayan original version of Silent House are presented as a single take, but weren't actually shot in a single take.
There are a couple of moments in this film where you can tell they made cuts, but these are few and far between—I only recall seeing a couple of them, so I was sort of surprised to read that it was shot in 10-15 minute blocks, because it appeared they were much longer than that.
In any case, a 10-15 minute take is a LONG time, and demands an enormous amount of preparation and work for both the actors and the crew.
What drove me crazy was a little continuity issue . . . the blood on her. Drove me nuts!
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