• inductor@aussie.zone
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    3 days ago

    Every long oner has hidden cuts. These range from really simple, like something moving across the foreground to hide a wipe, to really difficult (expensive) like fully CG doubles to merge shots (probably too expensive for this TV show).
    I would suspect that at least 80% of the time, when something (or more often someone) moves accross the whole frame in front of everything else, its obscuring a wipe to the next shot.

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      15 hours ago

      There is at least one (art house) thriller done in one cut, Victoria, rather impressive for a future length movies that includes several locations and driving in a car.

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      3 days ago

      He could be lying, but the cinematographer for it says each episode was a single shot

      “There’s no stitching of takes together," cinematographer Matthew Lewis told Variety. “It was one entire shot, whether I wanted it to be or not.”

      I dont see why he’d say that if it wasnt as he’d look pretty stupid if some else came out and contradicted him.

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        15 hours ago

        Seems rather poetic then factual statement - what does " whether I wanted it to be or not." in this context even mean?

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          I think it’s refering to that they were only using a single camera and that the episodes were performed all the way though (up to 16 times per that article) on location without stopping. With those constraints there isnt really a way to make cuts.