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It's an interesting idea, but only people who know what they're doing should use it. Also, it would be really hard on the actors and really hard to make an action scene that way. Gravity had it a little easier by big chunks of the really long shots being purely CG. The director didn't cut corners, but he didn't need to worry about a huge number of practical effects going off at the exact right time.
It can go wrong, look at the Last Airbender, for example. Most of the fight scenes are done with one long shot, so you get to see the extras in the background waiting for their cues, and the fight scenes are much longer than they should be.
Essentially, what I think is that it's a hard technique to master that involves constant communication between the director and editor (which doesn't always happen, and some editors outright bar the director from the editing room) and that isn't the best fit for some genres. On the plus side, it would be basically impossible to do shakycam with it and still have the movie be at all watchable.
Not Three Laws compliant.
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Am I gonna be the first one to mention Russian Ark?
edited 7th May '14 7:51:52 AM by Achaemenid
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Seems like it. Fuck that thing was just a piece of art.
Oh really when?
Main Link.
Quick summary: Some neuroscientists figured out that, with modern digital technology, we can make films without cuts by shifting the viewers' focus from one object to another. Examples compare traditionally-edited films to scenes in Gravity and a few other selections.
I want to know: How would this be done? Should this happen? What could be the best applications for this kind of technique? What suggestions do you have for directors who want to try this?
Personally, I think this could work really well in action scenes, and we can already see it in Gravity (they link to a clip in the article) and the "river" scene in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
I can already hear cries of "what about scene transitions?!" I think: "What about matching a wipe to objects in a scene?" It's already been done, usually to hide a fade (and I think I remember it used once in Merlin), and it could be done with pretty much any object in a scene.
So, yeah. Thoughts? Questions? Cries for me to get off the internet? Go.
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