I could be wrong but I think there's a cut when the camera whips down to Blake's feet when he was getting dragged because when it whipped back up his face already had the pale make up
@@wanwanwan5405 nop, he confirmed each scene has 39 takes, if you take a look on the article on the wrap, he said "Although the film looks like an uninterrupted shot, with only one obvious cut, it actually contains dozens of cuts."
often you saw them from the back, when they walk in the trenches at the beginning. I can imagine that this might've also been easier to make cuts there as well.
When I saw the movie, I've noticed some of these cuts, but after watch this, I'm impressed with some of them. They are simply impossible to be spotted at first. Amazing video, bro
Probably artistry is required as a criteria for editing. Organising the cuts for the film is done in the script and in pre production and not in post by the editor. It does require some skill by the editor to hide these cuts but no creativity since the creative part is done in pre production.
Because these cuts are vfx, not editing. It was all planned and rehearsed carefully ahead, the editor had pretty much nothing else to do in this film than choosing the best takes and then sending them over to the vfx department. Usually the editor gets to tell the story by using the footage any way he wants (and how the director and producers want of course), cutting out scenes, extending scenes, shortening scenes, reorganizing scenes and shots, using different camera angles and making the rhythm of the film and so on. There's so much you can usually do with editing that was simply not possible on this film.
You’re joking right? Please tell me you’re joking? As a documentary film editor, this would be the easiest Oscar nomination for an editor to have gotten, since all the cuts are pre-planned and the film was shot for these planned cuts. The editor(s) of 1917 did not have to make the usually decisions in post-production of 1917 as they would on other films. All the credit goes to the cinematographer, visual effects, and director for making these scenes flow like a single take. Great film, but an editing nomination would’ve been an insult to other editors who had to piece together and structure whole scenes from multiple angles.
It won for cinematography and to make these cuts it was the planning of the shots that allowed it to work, so it was less editing and more due to the fact of how it was shot. Also, they did CG work to make them appear seamless.
Ben Moran hey Ben! Absolutely! I'm definitely wrong about some, and likely missed some too but this was just a video I wanted to put together. I saw the link on his website and if that is actually him replying then that's so cool and thank you for bringing this up. Harrison,
In my honest opinion, I can understand why this film would have been secluded from the Best Editing category. The film's editing isn't really anything special, as the cuts we see are all very heavily planned and choreographed so the editor wouldn't really have control over where he/she was cutting other then the take the choose from. This really falls under a VFX category as, that department would have been the ones who had control over the method in which the cut transitions and the tool they use to do it. That is just my opinion. Although it is a really great film and did take home 3 oscars, I don't really feel that it falls under the Editing category as this films amount of cuts in the double digits, others are in the quadruple digits likely. Either way, I really respect all the work that was put into the film, and how the film turned out on a cinematic & technical achievement. Glad I am creating a conversation in the comments and I'd love to hear anyone else's opinion. Harrison,
I totally agree with you about the editing, nothing really special. I really wanted 1917 to win best original music score, but honestly, Joker deserved it. Thank you for the upload.
I think it has a lot to do with how the editing was done, a lot of these are subtle/hard to notice. Bohemian Rhapsody won Best Editing and was criticized for having one scene where the cuts were HORRENDOUSLY obvious. Which might have influenced the decision. Not to say the Oscar Board is uncultured or untrained or what have you, but I feel like sometimes they don't know how to truly appreciate/understand what they are watching especially if rumors of complaints about Parasite having subtitles only are true.
so true the vfx team being on set so as to plan the exact technic they'll use to hide them...this is a good observation To be honest...they won an oscar on VFX cause I think of how they used CGI to make it look real-time performance as well as improvised use of practical effects like flares and 'burning buildings' to produce light on set...thats just me
@@Americandude-de6zd Did you know they also actually sent out a bunch of dudes to LARP world war 1 for a bit to create the landscapes and sets. Those are real dead bodies, those boys had been fighting and dying and digging for 3 weeks by that point. Good lads did a good job eh?
Hey everyone! I just wanted to make something very clear to the viewers which is that this video is just my own interpretation of the amount of cuts and it very well may not be correct. If that is the case then what Roger Deakins and so on were able to achieve is even more Amazing, and I simply made this to further investigate this technique, as I have with both Birdman and The Revenant. Either way, I hope you all continue to enjoy! Harrison,
Awesome video dude! I was in the forest scene and it was done in one take from entering the forest to leaving down the comms trench. Other than that most of these are pretty good guesses. And you're right about Deakins, the man's a legend
That part where the camera moves out the window during the flares at night and moves down to the ground was actually one take. they made part of the wall and window removable as the camera moves forward.
Even though there are several cuts in this movie, they're all edited together so insanely well, that you couldn't even tell. I love this movie. So much work went into this, and it showed. Edit: are all these cuts you KNOW are cuts? Or are there just your guesses?
Thank you for watching the video. And yeah absolutely they work so insanely well! Some of them I know for sure are cuts, and other are my guesses but based off of me looking at it frame by frame.
Wow, some of these are so seamless I never would have suspected anything. The only one I guessed that wasn't too obvious in the theater was in the very beginning, around the time they cross the small pond filled with barbed wire.
Nice, Thanks! There are few more, for example after he drops down the waterfall and is underwater. With the combined power of the internet we can figure them all out. :-D
It's hard to believe that the mission's finale, when Schofield was rushing through and outside of the trench, was actually just a one shot. So much happened between cuts shown in 3:38 and 3:34 .
i think because its partly made in computer graphics, you can tell by the movement of the character; it is not completely "natural" in a way. same goes for the scene where he drops in the river
Directing, cinematography, soundtrack and everything else in this movie is top class. Watching this in the cinema will remain one of the greatest experiences I've had in cinema.
Hey Thomas! good question, they probably shot on a long lens for this scene, or had some sort of special housing for the camera. I'm not to sure though!
Hey guys just wanted to say thank you so much for all your support with this video, and for all those that had subscribed to my channel! I'll be uploading a mashup video on Peter Jacksons The Hobbit Trilogy as they're being released in 4K this Christmas. Hope you're all staying safe & healthy! Harrison
Hey! Thank you very much for watching, as I mentioned in the descriptions/comments I made it very clear that these cuts are MY opinion. However, I made the decisions based on my looking at every frame as to where I suspected a cut, based on Hair/Makeup changes/BG changes and technical background. Also Roger Deakins the films cinematographer also stated that: some were right, some were wrong and some weren't included. Thank you very much for watching!
God, what can incredible movie. Just this clip got pulled me right back into it. I must watch it in theaters again and if you haven't yet I strongly suggest you do
This movie has some of the best cinematography, film editing, directing, and visual effects of all time- once you watch this movie, you’ll walk away completely appreciative of what these men have done for our country. This movie may have been a fictional story, but you have to bear in mind someone had to go and call off the attack going through probably similar scenarios (this movie was based off a real life event where the Germans did retreat and nearly fooled the Allies). This movie will change you, and it deserved so much more at the Oscars although it won big.
I could not get enough of this movie. Even though it was slightly based on real events, it still showed a lot of actuality that the men had to brace through. True heroes. That, plus all of the crazy editing and visual effects. They were all so subtle, but if you know what to look for, it blows your mind. Thank you so much for posting this.
A lot of these aren't cuts. Just because the camera has something completely cover the screen does not mean it's a transition to a new cut. For sure some of them are cuts, but they use object screen covering to make the viewer feel like they are there... "up close and personal".
No idea how this won best Vfx. We do these types of cuts and split screens all the time and don’t get an Oscar win. Complete joke. Give it to the lion king or end game. Both of those films made massive leaps forward with their tech and the execution. It’s so puzzling how something that has been done for years just gets the Oscar.
This movie was robbed at the Oscars. As great of a film as Parasite was, 1917 deserves Best Editing & Picture. Knives Out should've won Best Screenplay.
This film barely had any editing. The editing in Parasite was utterly masterful. This film barely utilises it. The cuts while great and all, well executed and very well thought out etc, it is the same thing over and over again with nothing really that complex or interesting. Parasite is a 2 hour long demonstration of editing mastery. From montages to the flow of sequences there is total control over every aspect to achieve perfection. Editing is far more present and important and integral to Parasite. As for best picture. That's more debatable. I still think Parasite deserves it because it's a masterpiece in every regard imo. Also it's highly original and unique, lastly Boon-Joon Ho just straight up deserves an Oscar generally. We could discuss all day if you so desire. So now that I've done my babbling, why do you think 1917 deserves best picture and best editing? Smiley face coz I like em -> :)
He said, that it is just his presumption. I watched the movie twice and I also thought it might be a "cut". It looks a bit off to me, the movement of the camera, unnatural. Not quite so extreme as the jump from the bridge (wich is the "worst" edit in the film for me and really thew me out, but thats the only one that is not so good) but still a bit weird. You can see the camera loosing the ground, the dirt for quite some time, also the background is completely edited in this scene, the fog etc is added in so they could have pose morphed him from one take to another. I could be done, from a technical point, but I'm not sure. Hope, this helps!
In my opinion, it feels as if they rotoscoped him out. It's hard to explain but it feels like if u go frame by frame of him jumping into the ditch, the he feels very separated from the background.
@@HarrisonTheAvidEditor that is what I mean. It feels the same like the bridge jumping feels, and I think it's less the roto, more the movement that feels off I don't know. Maybe it is because we loose the ground and have no point of reference since the camera accelerates
Daniel Fried yeah that is possible. Maybe they tried to stabilize the motion and have it focus on him? Idk I’m pretty set on it being a cut because I feel as if they could have transition from before he was in the ditch to being in the ditch, but the technique to do that I do not know. It’s hard to say but this is why I made the video to make everyone discuss! :)
Hey Miguel! Thank you for watching, not necessarily but really anytime the entire of the frame is covered around 70%-100% in darkest then yes however the VFX capabilities in this day and age can allow us to do anything. Thank you again for watching! :)
@@HarrisonTheAvidEditor So if the blocking of the main actors is not necessarily made for the purpose of editing, how did you identify which blocking is made for editing and which is just a blocking of main actors, which made for some other reasons?
@@HarrisonTheAvidEditor I've heard in interviews that scenes could go as long as 9 Minutes, So I'm not sure if all your cuts here are actual cuts. If I remember correctly (take my word with a grain of salt) Mendes said he put cuts where you wouldn't expect it, and no cuts in very obvious places, like Explosions, or obstructions.
1917 serpente foi esse filme que lançou em 2020 na primeira vez é esse filme eu postei esse filme e fui limpar a cana que eu não desse filme muito bom fiquei muito emocionado é muito triste de filme é muito bacana
We're missing the most impressive cut of all: when Scho and Blake both climb out of a bomb hole, CGI body doubles were used to fill the gaps between cuts and were shown to climb out of the hole. Honestly that's the best one because the CGI was so convincing I never would have guessed.
wow, this makes me realize how smart they had to be for the cuts, and also how i didn't consider those strategies while watching the movie to look out for cuts.
Alex G hey Alex, thank you for watching! Good point, I luckily watched it first then watched it a second time for the videos purpose. I hope that others do that as well. Harrison,
One thing that might be overlooked a lot is how clever it's filmed regarding foreground objects. Throughout the intire film there are sooo many foreground objects getting passed, which means that when it transitions between the scenes, the viewer is already used to having a lot of foreground objects passing the screen. That is what makes a lot of these transitions work in the film, even though this ones in this video might not be the craziest ones.
No cut when the german trip wire bomb exploded? Or the scene with the waterfall? I thought those were the obvious ones. I also noticed the jump in to the river but other then that it created a very good illusion
Should I be doing my homework? Yes Will I continue to watch Os at movie related content after the Oscars already ended for the next 2-3 hours? Also yes
The public: How about another joker, Oscars? Oscars: Nah, I think we’ve had enough of your jokes. The public: What do you get when you cross a one shot movie with Harrison Edgecombe? I’ll tell you what you get. You get a fucking snub!
Great summary, you beat me to it :) This is the first thing I wanted to do after seeing it for the first time. I missed 1-2 of the ones you showed, counted 40 in your compilation. I counted 40 in the first half when watching, got too immersed in the film to continue counting for the second half :) Thanks for going to the effort!
2:48 you missed one during this sequence. Right as he takes a hard left and the German shoots a round in Schofield's direction, the camera zooms as it passes a brick column, that was a cut I believe.
The editor in an interview on "The Wrap" confirmed a dozen cuts. "Although the film looks like an uninterrupted shot, with only one obvious cut, it actually contains dozens of cuts."
Hello I’m kinda clueless to this and found it interesting. Could someone kindly explain what’s the purpose of the cuts in scenes where it just seems to be in the same location? Like that guy was digging or walking and they pass by a closeup pillar and it cuts. But after the cut they are still digging/walking at the same place. Why didn’t they just keep shooting while he was walking?
[SPOILER] in the scene where the second character dies he surely has to carry a fake blood pump or the plane pilot surely suits nom flamable clothes so all these things can't be put on early.. Sorry for my bad English hope you get the idea.
Breakdancer/ Nerd thank you for watching! If you look around the edges of his body you can see the slight feather of when they switched out the backgrounds. This movie is a piece VFX magic.
This is cool but where’s the evidence supporting these claims? Some of these shots look too smooth to be cut, and if they *actually* are, then bravo to the editors. Way more subtle than bird man, which I thought was really good with the way they hid their cuts
Hey thank you for watching, so I looked through frame by frame of where I felt these cuts were to happen, and looked for things like: wardrobe changes, bg changes, hand placement drastic changes and also thinking on a technical scale as to how they could pull this off. And typically there is some sort of artifact on the screen that is a result or product of VFX stitching. Roger Deakins (the cinematographer of this film) said that most were right, some were wrong and some were missing. I just did this video for my own amusement and thought it would be interesting to see. But I'm glad that I'm creating a discussion. Thank you for watching it!
The cuts could be literally anywhere, even in the clearest of scenes. With today’s incredibly advanced AI technology anything is possible. The beauty of this is how tastefully, seamlessly, and subtly it’s been crafted to make it convincing.
I heard that the film was using 3 tricks to make a one-shot feels. Quick pan, zoom in, and timelapse. I'm not a cinematographer, but i'm humbly ask to correct me if i was wrong. The quick pan was when another obstacle passed by. The zoom in was when the camera entered a less bright set. And the timelapse, i think, they're only happened when Sco falling from stair after got shot and when he was falling from waterfall. Am i wrong ?
No me parece que cada vez que una persona pasa delante de la cámara se un corte, me parece que si en algunos casos, pero en alguno de los que pusiste parece que corta totalmente la interpretación y actuación de george, igualmente me encantó el video!!!!
🎥Cuts in front of pillers, walls, under water, in dark, smoke, explosion are not new film makers done this type of technic to show continue shot illusion.
What about when Schofield enters the cut and cover where Colonel Mackenzie is? I thought for sure there was cut there since they couldn't afford to redo the whole running scene before that(I've read they had explosives for only 5 retakes).
Hello. Will someone please explain to me the purpose of the hidden cuts? For example, at 2:44, why do they have to cut it when it looks like they just continued shooting. I've been busting my brain trying to figure out when the entire film really looks like one whole scene. And how did they make it seem like they continued acting throughout the film without a break?
You should check out Last Call - a film shot entirely in split screen- single takes - no hidden cuts, two camera crews filming at the same time. Trailer: vimeo.com/338689151
„Imagine having only one take of two hours and getting everything right!“ ... some of the people in this comment section have not heard of, like, live theatre? 😅
Curious, are these just your opinion? For instance, there's times when you say cut because it has a warp effect, but I think sometimes it's just that - a warp stabilizer effect. That is, of course, unless you've seen a BTS of all the actual cuts.
Hey Dave, as I've mentioned in earlier comments, these are just my opinion from going frame by frame, its usually based off of a few different aspects I'm paying attention to. Other then that, Roger Deakins watched the video and said that most were right some were wrong and some were missing. Thank you very much for watching the video!!!!
I was right about some of these, suspected a few others, and completely missed some more.
i haven't even watched this video yet, but i'm sure 4 minutes from now i'll feel exactly the same.
and yeap, i'm actually surprised i was right on most of these, but completely missed a lot of them
Same
I could be wrong but I think there's a cut when the camera whips down to Blake's feet when he was getting dragged because when it whipped back up his face already had the pale make up
2:58-3:00 Amazing tracking shot!
If you look closely you can see there is also a cut when he gets shot and falls down the stairs😜
lol the most obvious one
the editor lee smith confirmed 39 cut in 1917
@@wanwanwan5405 nop, he confirmed each scene has 39 takes, if you take a look on the article on the wrap, he said "Although the film looks like an uninterrupted shot, with only one obvious cut, it actually contains dozens of cuts."
Yeah but he title is "hidden cuts", not "obvious cut".
"spoilers are in this video"
come on man you spoiled WW1 for me.
Sorry!!!
Theodore Grevers they’re making a sequel?!?!?
@@itsjustawatermelon714 yes, they will call it 1944
It's a fictional story. That's like saying that since you know the Titanic sank, then it's impossible to spoil what happens in the movie.
it's gonna be a trilogy and after that the series gonna discontinue, right?
I thought they were just acting for 20 minutes until the explosion in the tunnels now I knew that was a cut for sure
I thought the first cut was at the bunker with the general
@@CrossfeetGaming yeah it took me a long time to see cuts
i tried to notice the cuts while watching the movie in cinema
oof
often you saw them from the back, when they walk in the trenches at the beginning. I can imagine that this might've also been easier to make cuts there as well.
When I saw the movie, I've noticed some of these cuts, but after watch this, I'm impressed with some of them. They are simply impossible to be spotted at first. Amazing video, bro
Quite a few of these are not cuts.
Some are wrong and there are more missing ;)
The channel is basically like "uh something passed Infront of the camera and hid the main characters? That's definitely a cut! Note it down!!!"
How was this not nominated for Best Film Editing
Probably artistry is required as a criteria for editing. Organising the cuts for the film is done in the script and in pre production and not in post by the editor. It does require some skill by the editor to hide these cuts but no creativity since the creative part is done in pre production.
though it got best Visual Effects for these cuts
Because these cuts are vfx, not editing. It was all planned and rehearsed carefully ahead, the editor had pretty much nothing else to do in this film than choosing the best takes and then sending them over to the vfx department. Usually the editor gets to tell the story by using the footage any way he wants (and how the director and producers want of course), cutting out scenes, extending scenes, shortening scenes, reorganizing scenes and shots, using different camera angles and making the rhythm of the film and so on. There's so much you can usually do with editing that was simply not possible on this film.
You’re joking right? Please tell me you’re joking?
As a documentary film editor, this would be the easiest Oscar nomination for an editor to have gotten, since all the cuts are pre-planned and the film was shot for these planned cuts. The editor(s) of 1917 did not have to make the usually decisions in post-production of 1917 as they would on other films. All the credit goes to the cinematographer, visual effects, and director for making these scenes flow like a single take. Great film, but an editing nomination would’ve been an insult to other editors who had to piece together and structure whole scenes from multiple angles.
It won for cinematography and to make these cuts it was the planning of the shots that allowed it to work, so it was less editing and more due to the fact of how it was shot. Also, they did CG work to make them appear seamless.
liam neeson took more cuts getting over a fence..
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The most obvious cut was when Schofield got his hand caught in the barbed wire fence
Jd Gg XD Good one
An when he got shot in that house in the helmet, fell back down the stairs and blacked out.
@@Owen-ub3fv Bruh
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What?
@@Owen-ub3fv the joke is that scho got cut, literally, on his hand
There's actually no cut at 3:44! I'd know as i'm the dude being carried on the stretcher ;)
All guesswork on the video-maker's part with lots of mistakes
Nice video! FYI Roger Deakins has pointed out on his website that some of the cut points that are suggested in this video are not correct.
Ben Moran hey Ben! Absolutely! I'm definitely wrong about some, and likely missed some too but this was just a video I wanted to put together. I saw the link on his website and if that is actually him replying then that's so cool and thank you for bringing this up. Harrison,
Harrison Edgecombe It is him! His website is a fantastic resource for learning about cinematography - he’s so generous with his knowledge.
@@HarrisonTheAvidEditor I heard that there was 64 cuts or something. Could that be right?
@@chris0242 No. That was just in the script. The real movie has like 30-40 cuts. I read an screenrant article which said that there are 34 cuts
This is one of those things where the magician never tells you how the trick is performed, and you're left leaving audiences in awe for generations.
In my honest opinion, I can understand why this film would have been secluded from the Best Editing category. The film's editing isn't really anything special, as the cuts we see are all very heavily planned and choreographed so the editor wouldn't really have control over where he/she was cutting other then the take the choose from. This really falls under a VFX category as, that department would have been the ones who had control over the method in which the cut transitions and the tool they use to do it. That is just my opinion. Although it is a really great film and did take home 3 oscars, I don't really feel that it falls under the Editing category as this films amount of cuts in the double digits, others are in the quadruple digits likely. Either way, I really respect all the work that was put into the film, and how the film turned out on a cinematic & technical achievement. Glad I am creating a conversation in the comments and I'd love to hear anyone else's opinion. Harrison,
I totally agree with you about the editing, nothing really special. I really wanted 1917 to win best original music score, but honestly, Joker deserved it. Thank you for the upload.
I think it has a lot to do with how the editing was done, a lot of these are subtle/hard to notice. Bohemian Rhapsody won Best Editing and was criticized for having one scene where the cuts were HORRENDOUSLY obvious. Which might have influenced the decision. Not to say the Oscar Board is uncultured or untrained or what have you, but I feel like sometimes they don't know how to truly appreciate/understand what they are watching especially if rumors of complaints about Parasite having subtitles only are true.
Editor - he's a he (Lee Smith)(supervising editor tbh)
Certified Entertainment 254 yes I did know that :) I just said he/she to be more general and respectful.
so true the vfx team being on set so as to plan the exact technic they'll use to hide them...this is a good observation
To be honest...they won an oscar on VFX cause I think of how they used CGI to make it look real-time performance as well as improvised use of practical effects like flares and 'burning buildings' to produce light on set...thats just me
So everytime someone/something pass in front of the camera there is a cut 😅
Gustavo Alves not always
an opportunity to cut yes. just in case.
And when it's dark
I almost wish there was a gameshow about trying to identify cuts.
The whole film was a work of art.
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How did they do (spoiler) the makeup of Blake after he was stabbed? He turned pale very quickly but I didn't notice any cuts.
Great video btw!
I want to know too!
Don CS VFX
@@justicejericho97 ah yeah makes sense
You can grade someone's skin to make them look pale, without VFX!
digital grading
What about the cut where MacKay gets knocked unconscious?
Lego Fan maybe because that one was the only obvious cut.
@@augiefitrizia no because they actually knock him out they had to wait for two hours pretty crazy I'll sand a link to u if u want me too
the camera ran through until he woke up again
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Did you know they also actually sent out a bunch of dudes to LARP world war 1 for a bit to create the landscapes and sets. Those are real dead bodies, those boys had been fighting and dying and digging for 3 weeks by that point. Good lads did a good job eh?
@@pseudonymousbeing987 no way really
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I literally thought there was only two, maybe three cuts the whole movie.
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Which section of the movie would that be?
rwplm same. I figured it was the waterfall scene and when he falls backwards down the stairs and hits his head
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Those are the exact same spots that I thought the only cuts were.
@Donald Trump which scene that took 8 min?
Hey everyone! I just wanted to make something very clear to the viewers which is that this video is just my own interpretation of the amount of cuts and it very well may not be correct. If that is the case then what Roger Deakins and so on were able to achieve is even more Amazing, and I simply made this to further investigate this technique, as I have with both Birdman and The Revenant. Either way, I hope you all continue to enjoy! Harrison,
Awesome video dude! I was in the forest scene and it was done in one take from entering the forest to leaving down the comms trench. Other than that most of these are pretty good guesses. And you're right about Deakins, the man's a legend
Deakins actually commented on your video on his forum: www.rogerdeakins.com/film-talk/hidden-cuts-of-1917/
@@rossbayliss4151 Damn I wish I could have been there. Hope you had a good time on set !
Very good guesses! Some are wrong and there are more missing. Cool video!!
That part where the camera moves out the window during the flares at night and moves down to the ground was actually one take. they made part of the wall and window removable as the camera moves forward.
Even though there are several cuts in this movie, they're all edited together so insanely well, that you couldn't even tell. I love this movie. So much work went into this, and it showed. Edit: are all these cuts you KNOW are cuts? Or are there just your guesses?
Thank you for watching the video. And yeah absolutely they work so insanely well! Some of them I know for sure are cuts, and other are my guesses but based off of me looking at it frame by frame.
They also mention that a scene never lasted more than around 6 minutes I believe, but this movie is one that I will remember
You call it "The Hidden Cuts of:1917"
I call it "1917 in 4:06"
Is crazy, how they done that.
Wow, some of these are so seamless I never would have suspected anything. The only one I guessed that wasn't too obvious in the theater was in the very beginning, around the time they cross the small pond filled with barbed wire.
im pretty sure 2:23 is not a cut. they had a removable wall, so the camera could come down to the actor and follow him
That is very plausible!!!
Yes, it was confirmed on one of their behind-the-scenes.
Every times there’s an obstruction I knew. But obviously not every obstruction of the scene is a cut
I must be the only idiot who thought this film really was shot in ONE TAKE.
it cuts to black halfway through the movie?
This movie damn for sure deserved Best Cinematography.
Oh ye sure, best cinematography just cuse of some shit cuts that I can easily do in after effects
3:48- Mackay's face expresion chances a bit, his head is a bit more up after the cut. The best movie this year and best actors!!!
Now that is an interesting drinking game...
You just... gave me very unhealthy ideas
Nice, Thanks! There are few more, for example after he drops down the waterfall and is underwater. With the combined power of the internet we can figure them all out. :-D
Let's do it!!!!
I‘m amazed how they managed to make the movements continue so perfectly after the cuts.
It's hard to believe that the mission's finale, when Schofield was rushing through and outside of the trench, was actually just a one shot. So much happened between cuts shown in 3:38 and 3:34 .
0:52 woah woah WOAH how was that cut so smooth?? There’s no way
i think because its partly made in computer graphics, you can tell by the movement of the character; it is not completely "natural" in a way. same goes for the scene where he drops in the river
Its perfect!
Cgi
Have you seen the amount of indian digital effect artists in the credits ? that's how.
Directing, cinematography, soundtrack and everything else in this movie is top class. Watching this in the cinema will remain one of the greatest experiences I've had in cinema.
Btw, how did the water not get on the camera's in the river scene? It felt like you were inches away from scofield.
Hey Thomas! good question, they probably shot on a long lens for this scene, or had some sort of special housing for the camera. I'm not to sure though!
They used drones for this shot.
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Just cause this RUclipsr has written "cut" under some of the scenes doesn't mean they were actual cuts!! Don't believe everything you see online!
Hey! Thank you very much for watching, as I mentioned in the descriptions/comments I made it very clear that these cuts are MY opinion. However, I made the decisions based on my looking at every frame as to where I suspected a cut, based on Hair/Makeup changes/BG changes and technical background. Also Roger Deakins the films cinematographer also stated that: some were right, some were wrong and some weren't included. Thank you very much for watching!
Plot twist: the whole film is a cut
God, what can incredible movie. Just this clip got pulled me right back into it. I must watch it in theaters again and if you haven't yet I strongly suggest you do
This movie has some of the best cinematography, film editing, directing, and visual effects of all time- once you watch this movie, you’ll walk away completely appreciative of what these men have done for our country. This movie may have been a fictional story, but you have to bear in mind someone had to go and call off the attack going through probably similar scenarios (this movie was based off a real life event where the Germans did retreat and nearly fooled the Allies). This movie will change you, and it deserved so much more at the Oscars although it won big.
I could not get enough of this movie. Even though it was slightly based on real events, it still showed a lot of actuality that the men had to brace through. True heroes.
That, plus all of the crazy editing and visual effects. They were all so subtle, but if you know what to look for, it blows your mind.
Thank you so much for posting this.
A lot of these aren't cuts. Just because the camera has something completely cover the screen does not mean it's a transition to a new cut. For sure some of them are cuts, but they use object screen covering to make the viewer feel like they are there... "up close and personal".
Hey Chris! Good point thank you for watching!!
Not all wipes are cuts. Some of these are plain wrong
I agree
No idea how this won best Vfx. We do these types of cuts and split screens all the time and don’t get an Oscar win. Complete joke. Give it to the lion king or end game. Both of those films made massive leaps forward with their tech and the execution. It’s so puzzling how something that has been done for years just gets the Oscar.
This movie was robbed at the Oscars. As great of a film as Parasite was, 1917 deserves Best Editing & Picture. Knives Out should've won Best Screenplay.
This film barely had any editing. The editing in Parasite was utterly masterful. This film barely utilises it. The cuts while great and all, well executed and very well thought out etc, it is the same thing over and over again with nothing really that complex or interesting. Parasite is a 2 hour long demonstration of editing mastery. From montages to the flow of sequences there is total control over every aspect to achieve perfection. Editing is far more present and important and integral to Parasite.
As for best picture. That's more debatable. I still think Parasite deserves it because it's a masterpiece in every regard imo. Also it's highly original and unique, lastly Boon-Joon Ho just straight up deserves an Oscar generally. We could discuss all day if you so desire.
So now that I've done my babbling, why do you think 1917 deserves best picture and best editing?
Smiley face coz I like em -> :)
How did they did the Cut in 0:52? no object is hiding the actor
He said, that it is just his presumption. I watched the movie twice and I also thought it might be a "cut". It looks a bit off to me, the movement of the camera, unnatural. Not quite so extreme as the jump from the bridge (wich is the "worst" edit in the film for me and really thew me out, but thats the only one that is not so good) but still a bit weird. You can see the camera loosing the ground, the dirt for quite some time, also the background is completely edited in this scene, the fog etc is added in so they could have pose morphed him from one take to another.
I could be done, from a technical point, but I'm not sure. Hope, this helps!
In my opinion, it feels as if they rotoscoped him out. It's hard to explain but it feels like if u go frame by frame of him jumping into the ditch, the he feels very separated from the background.
@@HarrisonTheAvidEditor that is what I mean. It feels the same like the bridge jumping feels, and I think it's less the roto, more the movement that feels off I don't know. Maybe it is because we loose the ground and have no point of reference since the camera accelerates
Daniel Fried yeah that is possible. Maybe they tried to stabilize the motion and have it focus on him? Idk I’m pretty set on it being a cut because I feel as if they could have transition from before he was in the ditch to being in the ditch, but the technique to do that I do not know. It’s hard to say but this is why I made the video to make everyone discuss! :)
@@HarrisonTheAvidEditor yeah that's great, thanks for that!
O filme que eu 97 foi para mim muito filme Que filme que foi lançado o filme que foi foi um final já fez a primeira vez Esse filme foi muito bonito
I enjoyed the movie. But the scene of him jumping into the river was terribly edited. It can't look much more fake than that.
3:21 does anyone else see the doge meme on that rock ?
So basically every time something blocks the main actor, it's a cut.
Hey Miguel! Thank you for watching, not necessarily but really anytime the entire of the frame is covered around 70%-100% in darkest then yes however the VFX capabilities in this day and age can allow us to do anything. Thank you again for watching! :)
@@HarrisonTheAvidEditor So if the blocking of the main actors is not necessarily made for the purpose of editing, how did you identify which blocking is made for editing and which is just a blocking of main actors, which made for some other reasons?
@@HarrisonTheAvidEditor I've heard in interviews that scenes could go as long as 9 Minutes, So I'm not sure if all your cuts here are actual cuts. If I remember correctly (take my word with a grain of salt) Mendes said he put cuts where you wouldn't expect it, and no cuts in very obvious places, like Explosions, or obstructions.
1917 serpente foi esse filme que lançou em 2020 na primeira vez é esse filme eu postei esse filme e fui limpar a cana que eu não desse filme muito bom fiquei muito emocionado é muito triste de filme é muito bacana
We're missing the most impressive cut of all: when Scho and Blake both climb out of a bomb hole, CGI body doubles were used to fill the gaps between cuts and were shown to climb out of the hole. Honestly that's the best one because the CGI was so convincing I never would have guessed.
wow, this makes me realize how smart they had to be for the cuts, and also how i didn't consider those strategies while watching the movie to look out for cuts.
My life was a lie
1:29 did that blossom just spawn out of nowhere?
Bro when i heard 1917 was one shot first thing i thought of is hod of war 2018 love that game and this movie
I think if you purposely go out of your way looking for these like I did the first time watching the movie it takes away from the film.
Alex G hey Alex, thank you for watching! Good point, I luckily watched it first then watched it a second time for the videos purpose. I hope that others do that as well. Harrison,
You missed the cut right before the plane came over the hill
I did catch many, but there are some that I didn't and are completely seamless.
Butcher shops have more cuts than this movie
The angle and position of the camera is completely off in some cuts.
I bet the whole movie has less cuts than that weird scene from bohemian rhapsody that won the Oscar.
One thing that might be overlooked a lot is how clever it's filmed regarding foreground objects. Throughout the intire film there are sooo many foreground objects getting passed, which means that when it transitions between the scenes, the viewer is already used to having a lot of foreground objects passing the screen. That is what makes a lot of these transitions work in the film, even though this ones in this video might not be the craziest ones.
No cut when the german trip wire bomb exploded? Or the scene with the waterfall? I thought those were the obvious ones.
I also noticed the jump in to the river but other then that it created a very good illusion
Should I be doing my homework? Yes
Will I continue to watch Os at movie related content after the Oscars already ended for the next 2-3 hours? Also yes
The public: How about another joker, Oscars?
Oscars: Nah, I think we’ve had enough of your jokes.
The public: What do you get when you cross a one shot movie with Harrison Edgecombe? I’ll tell you what you get. You get a fucking snub!
Great summary, you beat me to it :) This is the first thing I wanted to do after seeing it for the first time. I missed 1-2 of the ones you showed, counted 40 in your compilation. I counted 40 in the first half when watching, got too immersed in the film to continue counting for the second half :)
Thanks for going to the effort!
1:48 - 1:52 AVOID. MAJOR PLOT SPOILER!!!
How was 0:49 a cut?
Gynecologist watch how the edges of his body start to blur because that’s where they did the vfx work over to the next shot
are you a tailor or butcher ?
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yes i was right, in my 4 years learning proccess of film making , i had noticed these cuts!!!!
I mean, props to the editors for making it look like one big shot. Seriously no one is giving these editors credit??!!
How did they cut at 0:40?
Not gonna lie, some of these are really great cuts- but some of these are just jarringly iffy.
2:48 you missed one during this sequence. Right as he takes a hard left and the German shoots a round in Schofield's direction, the camera zooms as it passes a brick column, that was a cut I believe.
The editor in an interview on "The Wrap" confirmed a dozen cuts.
"Although the film looks like an uninterrupted shot, with only one obvious cut, it actually contains dozens of cuts."
Hello I’m kinda clueless to this and found it interesting. Could someone kindly explain what’s the purpose of the cuts in scenes where it just seems to be in the same location? Like that guy was digging or walking and they pass by a closeup pillar and it cuts. But after the cut they are still digging/walking at the same place. Why didn’t they just keep shooting while he was walking?
Pouestah probably because the scene was already “to long” an prevent mistakes that would make then shot 9 minutes of scene all over again
Hey Pouetash, typically it would have been for things as mentioned below, such as lens swap, card swap, battery swap or a bunch of other things :)
[SPOILER] in the scene where the second character dies he surely has to carry a fake blood pump or the plane pilot surely suits nom flamable clothes so all these things can't be put on early.. Sorry for my bad English hope you get the idea.
0:51 That’s a cut? That’s impressive
Breakdancer/ Nerd thank you for watching! If you look around the edges of his body you can see the slight feather of when they switched out the backgrounds. This movie is a piece VFX magic.
This is cool but where’s the evidence supporting these claims? Some of these shots look too smooth to be cut, and if they *actually* are, then bravo to the editors. Way more subtle than bird man, which I thought was really good with the way they hid their cuts
Hey thank you for watching, so I looked through frame by frame of where I felt these cuts were to happen, and looked for things like: wardrobe changes, bg changes, hand placement drastic changes and also thinking on a technical scale as to how they could pull this off. And typically there is some sort of artifact on the screen that is a result or product of VFX stitching. Roger Deakins (the cinematographer of this film) said that most were right, some were wrong and some were missing. I just did this video for my own amusement and thought it would be interesting to see. But I'm glad that I'm creating a discussion. Thank you for watching it!
Harrison Edgecombe wow. I had no idea you put that much effort into this. I’m sorry for ever doubting you! Keep up the good content
Have you inspected all these cuts in Davinci Resolve by scene detect feature?
The cuts could be literally anywhere, even in the clearest of scenes. With today’s incredibly advanced AI technology anything is possible. The beauty of this is how tastefully, seamlessly, and subtly it’s been crafted to make it convincing.
In 1917 the cuts are technically brilliant but in Birdman the cuts are artistically breathtaking and some shots are just impossible comprehend.
let's appreciate the editor , but don't forgot the legend behind the camera .
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I heard that the film was using 3 tricks to make a one-shot feels. Quick pan, zoom in, and timelapse.
I'm not a cinematographer, but i'm humbly ask to correct me if i was wrong. The quick pan was when another obstacle passed by. The zoom in was when the camera entered a less bright set. And the timelapse, i think, they're only happened when Sco falling from stair after got shot and when he was falling from waterfall. Am i wrong ?
No me parece que cada vez que una persona pasa delante de la cámara se un corte, me parece que si en algunos casos, pero en alguno de los que pusiste parece que corta totalmente la interpretación y actuación de george, igualmente me encantó el video!!!!
🎥Cuts in front of pillers, walls, under water, in dark, smoke, explosion are not new film makers done this type of technic to show continue shot illusion.
It has absolutely been done before!
Appreciate it. Your video about 1917 was very informative.keep make this kind of deep researched videos.
It's like "okay we go for the next planned cut point and then continue if it's ok. It's complete planning, and it's boring:(
My Great Grandfather was in WW1 and my Grandfather was in WW2
They told me so many stories but never mentioned Muslims with hijabs
What about when Schofield enters the cut and cover where Colonel Mackenzie is? I thought for sure there was cut there since they couldn't afford to redo the whole running scene before that(I've read they had explosives for only 5 retakes).
I was correct about ...few clips...but awesome .. observation dude..
Hello. Will someone please explain to me the purpose of the hidden cuts? For example, at 2:44, why do they have to cut it when it looks like they just continued shooting. I've been busting my brain trying to figure out when the entire film really looks like one whole scene. And how did they make it seem like they continued acting throughout the film without a break?
The 2:00 wasnt a cut.. On the BTS they show the camera going from inside the truck to outside by pulling the roof of the truck
When he walks through the opening in the destroyed wall the cut doesn't line up properly. The other soldier magically moves like two feet back.
You should check out Last Call - a film shot entirely in split screen- single takes - no hidden cuts, two camera crews filming at the same time. Trailer: vimeo.com/338689151
„Imagine having only one take of two hours and getting everything right!“ ... some of the people in this comment section have not heard of, like, live theatre? 😅
Curious, are these just your opinion? For instance, there's times when you say cut because it has a warp effect, but I think sometimes it's just that - a warp stabilizer effect. That is, of course, unless you've seen a BTS of all the actual cuts.
Hey Dave, as I've mentioned in earlier comments, these are just my opinion from going frame by frame, its usually based off of a few different aspects I'm paying attention to. Other then that, Roger Deakins watched the video and said that most were right some were wrong and some were missing. Thank you very much for watching the video!!!!
Spoilers: The Germans will never reach Paris and the Russians will have a communist revolution.
I agree about CUts in night or low light scenes, how you know other cuts?