How to make a movie look like one long shot
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- The trick to spotting cuts in a “one-take” film.
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The Best Picture nominee 1917 tells a pretty simple story: two British soldiers cross the no man’s land of World War I to warn a battalion of an impending ambush. What really makes the movie stand out is how director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins made the movie look like it was filmed in one continuous take. The techniques required to pull off hidden cuts have their roots in Alfred Hitchcock's movie Rope - and if you look closely, you can catch where they happen in 1917.
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The fact that Hitchcock was doing these kind of clever cuts back in the 40’s makes me actually understand why he was so great
L P i was thinking the same
Hitchcock is a cinema legend!
Fun (in this case, sad) fact: Hitchcock never got an Oscar...
He lived in my hometown
@@ae4042 he drank water...
There are 61 cuts in 1917?! Man, when I watched it I tried to keep a rough count of the cuts I saw, and I only got around 12-15. That’s awesome
In an article by screen rant, it said 34 cuts
same!! i counted 15 cuts but i knew there had to be more
Who counts scene cuts
IDontCare people like us who are interested in films and editing, personally I’m a media student so I enjoy trying to find the things that aren’t meant to be found or just how the editors have decided to cut the film.
Ye, cause in an interview the main actor said the longest shot they took only last about 3-4 minutes
"All warfare is based on deception."
Now I know this is applicable everywhere.
ok makarov
Life as the masses know . Is deception, fr .
Who said all warfare is based on deception? This is not true. Its one of the elements but not what it is based off of. You could say all of warfare is based off of logistics because if you can't get troops to the front then nothing happens, if you can't get weapons to troops then your just using bad language. See how I just proved that all warfare is based off of logistics? However, this is not what warfare is. Just like all warfare is based off of breathing. Try to conduct a war without breathing. However, no one, anywhere would say that that breathing is the base of warfare.
@@gusbisbal9803 I recommend reading The Art of War, that's where this quote comes from
@@gusbisbal9803 Well Sun Tzu also mentioned logistics as well as other techniques of war
So you’re telling me tiktokers and film makers use the same techniques to hide their cuts
unfortunately. i would never want to admit it.
hahahahaha such a great observation!!
Well, maybe not with a foreground object. That's something that takes time-consuming masking in a serious editing program like Premiere.
No I am telling you everybody can paint a picture but not every one of that is a masterpiece.
Martin Shewfelt people use premiere and after effects for some tiktoks dude I’m not even joking
How many cuts do you want?
Bollywood and Indian soap operas: *YES*
'You ordered a whoosh whoosh and zoom zoom sir?'
That's the answer to any question asked in India
It's cool indian film and tv have their own over the top way of editing and camera movement. For a westerner is was quite grating at first until I realised that it's just a part of Indian film.
Gangs of Wasseypur prologue *smirks*
in today world one shot mean nothing....
My whole life was continuous and I never got a video
You THOUGHT it was continuous, but every time you slept, even just a five minute power nap, the universe cut together two different lives. It's subtle, but you can spot it if you know what to look for! (Mostly, just noticed when you've been asleep.)
@@CanuckMonkey13 exactly my thought. I feel each sleep is a new cut.
when you blink, you do a basic cut so nice try
this whole account is just for this single comment! 🤣
LOL best comment
This video had more cuts than the movie 1917
Any video will have more or equal cuts than 1917😂😂
HeyDuoDuosHeyDuoDuos what was the point of that comment?
3:49 The list of movies:
Timecode • 2000, 97 min.
Russian Ark • 2002, 96 min.
PVC-1 • 2007, 85 min.
Fish & Cat • 2013, 134 min.
Ana Arabia • 2013, 85 min.
Victoria • 2015, 138 min.
Utøya: July 22 • 2018, 90 min.
*1917* used a lot of *motion blur* to transition their shots and a couple of *foreground object* transitions as well. I only noticed maybe less than 15 of them, and they were *really* smooth. Totally deserved *Oscar for Best Cinematography*.
What fascinates me the most, with anything, is someone knowing the limitations but trying to figure out creative ways to get the job done. I can imagine a group of people saying it just can't be done but one person coming up with an idea that works. Very interesting how some people possess that ability whereas some get stuck in their "black and white" worlds.
Me: _Patiently waiting for Vox to put out a video on the Coronavirus that I _*_KNOW_*_ they are busy making right now_
Their editors: *Render faster you dang video, render!*
Video rendering doesn't take THAT long, on the right hardware at least.
@@ConchitaProductions True, although it depends on the video, and the program used to render.
I don’t get it ;(
This is such an interesting and insightful video! I took my friend to watch 1917. She said it's... ordinary and kind of boring. For me? I was fascinated! The entire film i was looking for clues where the director cut the film. I was looking at every inch of details from set design, props, and costumes. My god. Even tho i still saw it (where sam mendes cut the film) I'm still amaze by it. Props to the cast that can deliver all that lines with perfect expression without any error.
This reminds me of something,that i noticed while listening to Music.Sometimes from Media,you get Enjoyment of something,when you know to look for specific things.Maybe that is something,that enhanced your Enjoyment.
never go to the movies with this friend ever again.
maybe find new friends
ask her who fought on which side
or who actually won (amazing the stupidity on that one)
Your friend was right. It was boring and mediocre at best. I love war movies from any period and movies in general. I think there is too much hype with this film. Rather watch Paths of Glory, They Shall Not Grow Old, Gallipoli or a WWII movie like Saving Private Ryan again and again.
@@GeorgeVenturi well, if you look at the plot and story point of view, yeah. It's really simple and I'm not suprised general audience will think it's boring. I'm someone who interested in film, and have been in theater production a lot. So i know what it feels like behind the scene. That film is not an easy one to make, let me tell ya. And they deliever it perfectly
They did such an amazing job editing this entire film! super impressed with the editors on this movie production
Dark patch and blurr are obvious but that object cut like the car scene and 007, that's new to me. This was informative. 👍
Mr. Robot Season 3 Episode 5 is also a "one take". An absolute masterpiece.
EibeMandel mr robot has amazing cinematography throughout
mr robot is really ahead of its time... incredible story + incredible cinematography
I was waiting for them to cite Sam Esmail's masterpiece.
I literally was going to write this and I saw the comments and realized, Mr Robot really is a universal gem
Not exactly true one take , it had 30 hidden cuts.
Why do I feel like I very recently watched this on RUclips...
Movie insider
Corridor crew?
I think Film Theory did a video explaining these techniques when Birdman came out bit every informative video on that channel got deleted.
movie insider
wait why do i feel like i very recently seen this comment?
Sebastian Elytron same, I just watched a video exactly like this 2 weeks ago
"Rope" is one of Hitchcock's underrated films. It is short, but a compelling story and pretty good film.
It's appropriately rated. It's just under-known.
Oh yes! I just absolutely adore what's her name in the film Something Something.. Or was it just 'Something?
As soon as I heard that this movie was “one shot”, Rope was my first thought!
"I'm the master, of suspense, so intense no defense against Hitchcock once he presents" - Alternate Universe Alfred Hitchcock
"I am the king of dialogue"
Why is nobody talking about Daredevil uncut scenes? Such an underated show
agreed! that fight scene was truly remarkable
(sadly the show went off into the weeds toward the end for me - but sorry to have seen it leave)
Um its all over the internet
LOVE that show. Shame about the cancellation...
Eminem was the inspiration behind this film
"You only get one shot....."
"My name is Alfred Hitchcock, and this is Music to Be Murdered By."
i am not throwing away my shot
I thought it was based on the musical Hamilton. “I am not gonna throw away my shot!”
These are the absolute basics of modern filmmaking ; but by using only these basics the cinematographers, editors & the director made a masterpiece. Massive respect to them.
Omg, I was literally thinking this as I watched the movie. I was like "I don't see any scene cuts, that's cool it's one long uncut movie"
"1917, 2019" So which year is it? WHICH ONE?!
2020
1920
I think it’s 1917 but I’m not sure
1969
Ask Yourselfs Mother
69 nice
1917 is a masterpiece, there's been very little films about WW1 and this is by far the best. It's not only great because the one long continuous shot but because it shows the reality of war. That's where most war movies go wrong
nah... it's just an oscar bait. take the gimmickry away, and you'll get a shallow, non character development movie that relies only on sound and cinematography. There are so many war movies out there that are grounded and better told... with less gimmickry.
Sorry but I have to agree with @Salad Bar. I love war movies, and there are far more movies that go into greater depth about the realities of war. This one added nothing new except one or two neat sequences. It was too gimmicky (I think the "one-take" effect really only works in a couple of places, especially in the beginning to set up how long the trenches are/how different your experience can be depending on what side you're on--the rest is just distracting because it's *trying* too hard to be one shot and it takes away from the story). It's nice, but a masterpiece it is not.
@@JazzyNym you used the right word "distracting". it's quite a shame that i was not invested in the characters in this movie... and i found myself just counting how many obvious cuts were there.
@@CzarsSaladthis is so accurate. A lot of the scenes were just the two characters going from A to B so I got bored and started playing the "spot the cut" game
i literally just came back home from this movie
How is it?
@@juliancastillo9570 i liked it! i felt tense all the time watching it but yeah i liked it also it really does feel like one long scene like they said so in the video
3:58 jeez that movie gave me so many chills when I saw it
It's actually 2 shots. At one moment one of the two guys is knocked unconcious and the screen goes black. Then a new shot starts.
Came here after watching 1917. Some of the best cinematography i've ever seen. Really well done movie
A number of people at the time complained that "Rope" felt gimmicky. It would be good to see some further investigation of when and how these techniques actually improve a film.
Having seen all the best pic nominees, this one is a blowout. It was amazing start to finish.
as an amateur filmmaker, i really observed these and work with them and more! what a great video!
Thank you for acknowledging PVC-1 as a relevant example of one-shot movies. Colombian movies never get that much love and this movie is incredibly thrilling, much more than a bunch of Hollywood movies.
Victoria, the example for a true one-cut movie just blew my mind. A big recommendation from me!
I never wanted this video to stop
In case you haven't seen Rope I highly recommend it whether you like classic films or not. It's one of the best crime films of all time.
This was great. I thought it would be a rehash of the same video I've seen repurposed on about 100 other channels, but this was a really refreshing look back at the techniques used.
3:55 really happy you mentioned Victoria, watched it a few days ago for the third time now. Great movie. Greeting from Germany!
Slight correction: Russian Ark was actually filmed in one take. They tried it 3 times, I believe, and on the third they got all of it right.
Hadn't heard of that but gonna check it out. Victoria also took three attempts i think.
It’s an absolute masterpiece. I love “Russian Ark”.
same with victoria!
They never said otherwise.
I watched 1917 last weekend and noticed a few cut but didn’t know how it all works. Nice vid.
As an actor I would love this, stay in character that long
You have to hand it to the actors too; George Mackay and Dean Charles-Chapman really did well. Especially the scene where Schofield has to run across no man's land while getting tackled by the other soldiers
Victoria (2015) is an actual one-take movie with no hidden cuts, more than two hours long and moving across Berlin. It's an absolute technical and logistical marvel that I highly recommend to anybody.
I am so glad Vox exist
Nit picking, because I'm a compositor... But when he says "the editor can hide the cut, by doing x", it's definitely a compositor that does that work. 1917 won the oscar for best visual effects, in large part because of the seamless *compositing* that stitched everything together. Editing is something different, editing is about the timing and pacing of the film, which would've been an interesting task in 1917, as every "shot" blends into the next, so there is little room for traditional "editing". If something needs to be cut differently, it suddenly turns into a vfx shot with perhaps a more complicated transition.
I had always noticed the color match one but not the others! Awesome vid
The marketing of 1917 really pushed the "shot in one take" thing, and honestly it really reduced the impact of the film. I was constantly distracted by the hidden cuts to the point where it just became irritating. I wish that they hadn't relied on marketing the technique so much, so that it would be a cool feature discovered by the audience, and not so distracting. Like the numerous long takes in Children of Men, or Birdman which tried for a similar technique to 1917. They weren't distracting and were not super noticable unless you looked for them. I think the best long takes are the ones you don't notice until they are pointed out to you.
This is my brain realised in one comment, if 1917 had some cuts, I really think the story could have played out smoother
Yeah. If it’s billed as one long take, but is actually composed of several, separate long takes, it would be more impressive if the transitions weren’t hidden. That way, you’d actually see how long those long takes really are, and be impressed by all the coordination it took to accomplish them. When you know there are cuts, but you can’t see them, the movie might as well be a bunch of quick takes stitched together digitally by a bunch of lying liars.
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tincho: The only reason to make a “one take” film is to make a big deal about the fact that you made a one take film. It’s a gimmick, no more, no less. Audiences are not the least bit confused or distracted by cuts. Films with thousands of cuts flow just as well and feel every bit as continuous as films apparently shot in one take.
What’s more, the Hitchcockian technique of pushing in on someone’s back is VERY noticeable, because there’s no reason at all for the camera to do that except to mask a cut. It’s ridiculously unnatural. If he’d just cut to a different angle, it would flow better.
You're ridiculous.
Stitching some of those shots digitally was a good challenge they gave themselves, even this video couldn't give you solutions to all of them
I believe Victoria (2015) mentioned at 3:55 is a movie with one single take
Russian Ark is
Victoria and Russian Ark are one legit shot. Where Russian Ark only worked on the last attempt. While using long optical cables to store the video from the Sony HD camera on hard drives.
I think so too
All the movie posters shown in that part of the video were all one single take / one shot movies. Victoria, Russian Ark, Utoya July 22. etc.
Really entertaining to see this after I've seen 1917 yesterday. Amazing editing work!
I was amazed at these techniques.
I won't notice where these techniques use.
Wow. Thanks Vox. This was such a good video. I learned so much and as an artist, its actually so inspiring.
Spectre was such a cool film, I had no idea there was a cut to the hotel! Wow, real magicians here!
The thing is, that "Victoria" was in fact shot in one single take, they did three and took the last one. In one scene, about 100 minutes into the movie. The characters are driving away from a bank robbery, but they took a wrong turn, they paniced but overplayed it and moved on, if you don't know that, you think they did that on purpose. A masterpiece which the oscars didn't accept, because as a foreign movie (germany) they spoke to much english in it.
Now I kinda wish I didn't know how they did it... It takes the magic out of the movie
Let me state the undeniable. ProZD is the master of the motion blur cut.
Hitchcock is one of the most influential directors of all time
After watching this I feel like I'm able to make a whole film with good editing
1917 was mind-blowing. Probably the best amongst all the single cut movies.
vox giving me knowledge about something i don't know existed yet again
You forgot to mention Kingsman: The Secret Service.
Not gonna spoil the scene, but y'all know which one I'm talking about, no?
church fight?
am i captain obvious?
Freebird!
so interesting, love these detailed videos about filmmaking! keep it coming Vox!!!
Very good. I remember a lot of similar hidden cuts in Richard Attenborough's directorial debut, the World Way One musical, "O, What a Lovely War!"
Hard to find, but well worth watching. And I hate musicals.
Mr Robot is a masterpiece in one shot.
I recommend everyone Victoria from 2015. A over 2 hour long german mo3bile without any cuts, even without hidden ones. I have Seen over 2500 movies and this is one of my favs.
Russian Ark (2002) is an incredibly gorgeous feat of film making... Not one single cut throughout the entire film - one take.
watch "son of saul" ww2 one shot film about escaping a death camp. very good movie
The Texas Switch is a key part of the story in Hot Fuzz. Great stuff!
Michael Bay left the chat
Tamim Ahsan in 5 different perspective though, plus explosions
No, he was invented "explosion cut"
His movies are enjoyable for other reasons
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I see your profile picture everywhere.
Best video in awhile 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
the narration and music was a great
Now I understand why Hitchcock is the master of his craft.
Watching this movie in theaters rlly awakened my inner film nerd. I also just love war movies like Dunkirk and midway
Thanks for this one. I was waiting to understand how it happened
Movies like this grab my attention! Cause it does feel like real time
Please more videos explaining film, this is great!
Then you must watch Mr. Robot. Sam Esmail uses this technique even better.
Mohith Kune eh.
It doesn't hurt that in nearly every episode of Mr. Robot, each director borrowed the best of Hitchcock, Kurosawa and Kubrick to compose gorgeous still images that satisfy the eye before anything needs to move within them.
I tried Mr. Robot--the cinematography was lovely, but I just didn't like the story! The show's depiction of opiate withdrawal was also painfully bad, haha.
@@user-sf4fy8bq1h ^ I'll agree with that. Nurse Jackie did a great job, IMO.
@@jmullentech Nurse Jackie is by far the most accurate depiction, can't say enough good things about that show and Edie Falco in general. _Carmelaaaaaa!_
Your video is very important for how to make videos like movie thank you so much
Every Frame a Painting, featuring Vox
sadly the channel is dead ;(
Rope old school is always the best school
I watched 1917 and I liked the movie. But after watching it again is when I started to love the movie, Ive taken many videography classes and I love film, my friends werent as hyped about the movie as I was but now Id say its already one of my favorite movies.
I hate that whenever I watch a one-take movie, I'm subconsciously looking for those hidden cuts :D
Then watch „Victoria“ knowing there is no hidden cut.
Very Very Very AWESOME, i never comment and i mean i never comment, but wow this was Fantastic, I Love each and everyone who worked on this Video
I cant think of a joke
I can. Vox.
Can't think of a joke. Gets likes anyway. STONKS
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This video is really great. Nice explainaction.
Great job on the video.
Not gonna lie film editor got us in first half
Glad to see “Russian Ark” mentioned near the end. That’s the very first film I think of for one continuous shot.
This seems inspired by Every Frame a Painting. They must be so proud!
Thank you 4 ur hard work 🙏😇
This movie is a piece of art
Bollywood : Excuse me , I have no idea what you're talking about.
Spectra techniques were brilliant which I never notice until now.
If someone saw 2k19 Bollywood hit movie WAR, where protagonist Tiger Shroff's "ONE CUT" opening action sequence, they actually used motion blur shamelessly which was totally obvious.
Birdman : *released*
1917 : *released*
People : omg one shot movie !
Yeah exactly
Tricks like this are what can make a film more enjoyable to watch. If the 2nd and 3rd Bourne movies were filmed this way I would have liked them a LOT more. But Paul Greengrass gave us shaky cam instead.
Best videography from vox, NYT of videos..
Just saw Victoria, that was so amazing!
Thank you that was informative.
1917 was my first movie experience for such continuous shot. I was wondering while watching it, like the actors seems to remember all the lines for a shot of 10 min long. Also, movie might hold some kind of record for longest shot. 😬😋 But thanks to you, now I know..
1917 is an amazing, powerful film
paolo pegoraro nah its boring for me so extremely little action for a war movie
@@joshuakoh1291 Romans used to say ':degustibus not est disputandum' ', you can't discuss on the tastes, so i respect your opinion
I'm glad you incluided Victoria, it was a very interesting and remarkable one-take film, I recently watched 1917 and it was one of the best films in this bad-movies decade.
Bad movies decade? How do you figure that one?
the decade has just begun
@@nzbg1132 I mean if you want to be a pedant, one could argue that, because our system of time starts with Year 1 and not Year 0 , the "next decade" doesn't actually start until 2021. This argument is technically correct, but I think it's silly to cling onto technicalities like that when popular usage has clearly changed!
@@user-sf4fy8bq1h fair enough. But still if we're talking about 2011-2021 there were countless good movies.
Joker
Parsite
Togo
Avengers Endgame (yeah i like marvel movies don't judge please)
Good movies are supposed to be rare, like diamonds. If you can't find enough good movies, you aren't searching for them.
@@nzbg1132 Oh I don't make any claim as to the quality of the movies over the past decade--I was just talking about systems of time!
P.S. Joker's not a good movie though 😏 lol