A one-shot film (also one-take film , single-take film, continuous shot feature film) is a full-length movie filmed in one long take by a single camera, or manufactured to give the impression it was.
7-497: Benjamin Kanes (born March 25, 1977) is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer, best known for portraying Young Birdman in the 2014 single shot black comedy- drama film Birdman . Kanes was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania . Kanes entered the film industry with roles in short subjects and documentaries, beginning in 2003. During the early years, he also worked as
14-789: A body double and stuntman; most notably as a stand-in for the lead in Invincible , for Mark Wahlberg in Shooter and The Other Guys , for Jude Law in My Blueberry Nights , for Shia LaBeouf in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , and for Colin Farrell in Dead Man Down . He has also served as screenwriter, film editor, associate producer and short-subject producer during his career, and
21-515: A sobering reminder of temporality, a virtuosic calling card, a self-issued challenge or all of the above", also citing the Academy Award -winner from several years prior, Birdman (2014). Grode notes that before such films as 1917 and Birdman , the idea of experimenting with long uninterrupted takes had a history of over 80 years, with Alfred Hitchcock being a pioneer. Aside from early experiments like Young and Innocent and Notorious ,
28-544: Is best known for portraying Young Birdman and inner voice of Michael Keaton 's Riggan Thomson in the 2014 single shot black comedy- drama film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) , directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and written by Iñárritu with Nicolás Giacobone , Alexander Dinelaris Jr. , and Armando Bó . One-shot film In a 2019 article, discussing the award-winning film 1917 (2019), Eric Grode of The New York Times wrote that very long takes were becoming popular in more mainstream films "as
35-409: The long takes and apparently muttered on set that the cameras were more important than the actors. Hitchcock intended to shoot the film as if it were a play , and timed five of the ten segments to allow for hidden edits behind furniture; elaborate camera and actor choreography was used. He wrote Rope this way because he felt "if time passed between cuts, the suspense of whether the body was still in
42-404: The most famous early example of a film that extensively uses long takes is the 1948 Rope , which was shot in mainly seven-to-ten–minute continuous takes (the physical limit of film stock at the time) that appear as four long takes of around 15 to 20 minutes each, close to the maximum length allowed by the cinema projectors of the time. Reportedly, James Stewart , star of Rope , did not like
49-436: The trunk would be lost". Grode also examines the 1958 film Touch of Evil as an example, though only its three-minute opening sequence is shot in real time . However, the use of a real time ticking bomb through the single shot is seen as a standard. Although animated films are not included in a list of one-shot films, The Wolf House (2018) is a deconstructed example of ( stop-motion ) animated film that presented in
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