Yes ok The first films in the history of cinema have been in a shot And this has not prevented assembly inside (now you have in cinemas Light! The adventure continues, A superb selection of brothers’s shorts Light), So things have become complicated. Once the assembly and the relationship between planes as key elements of the cinematographic language, the Creative need to challenge them.
Long blows, without cuts and with plenty of movement of the camera seduces from theirs Technical difficulties, preparatory complexity, high economic cost and great immersive ability, becoming a soundtrack of artistic splendor to which many directors have aspired throughout history, with examples celebrated as Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Max Opuls, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Béla Tarr or Alfonso Cuarón.
If the sequence planes on the big screen (both rigorous resolutions of a sequence in a shot, or simply very long planes without cuts) seem large, they are fantastic, What about television? The series has also been combined with a trend that digital cameras, with their lightness of movement and infinite recording time, and the postproduction touch -Up for imperceptible junctions, have multiplied.
The sequence plans of “adolescence”
One of the most important points of Adolescence It was the technical and human deployment to successfully perform the company of the count of the series four episodes of a single blow, close to the duration. In addition, each of them has a narrative purpose that serves as an example for Various uses of the majority that are usually given to sequence plans and long floors without cuts.
Is the immersion within environments overflowing with characters and action For the four parts of episodes 1 (police station) and 2 (school) with a camera that changes positions also via drron. But also the Real impulse Which makes episode 3 more overwhelming (session with the psychologist) and the suspense of Follow -Up attached to the body of the character of Stephen Graham Along episode 4.
Subsequently we will examine some of the Best plans without cuts from the history of the television series, Many sequence plans, but others simply some of the greatest technical Virgurías that gave us the fictions of the small screen. They are not all, so you feel free to tell us if one of your favorites are missing.
‘File X’ (1998)
In the twentieth century, when the plans without cuts were not so extensive in the television, the Episode 3 of season 6 of File X. -Teythyurular Triangle and directed by their own Chris Carter– It was a company of another time to rolling In real time and four 11 minutes planes Without more interruptions of the technical limitations, As happened in Hitchcock The rope (1948); Even if we had to hide some more cuts here to allow a respite to the operator Steadicam.
‘Buffy, Cazavampos’ (2001)
A Joss Whedon The brilliant sequence plans have beaten, as it clarified so much in their other series (Angel y Firefly in the head) as in his films Avengers. Traumatic Episode 16 of season 5 of Buffy, Cazavampos, entitled The body, It is not the longest or complicated, but the most remembered (and planted) by fans. An extraordinary real monitoring of the despair of the character of Sarah Michelle Gellar After finding the lifeless body of his mother.
’19 -2 ‘(2014)
One relatively Little known, but brutal and very colorful. In addition, this Canadian remake in English replies the equivalent moment in the original series of Quebaquesa. There are 13 minutes of immersion in the police procedure to try to avoid a shooting in a school that can offer you both monitoring plans Elephant (2003) as a second episode of Adolescence.
‘True Detective’ (2014)
The series that we can blame for a new era of obsession with sequence planes in the police genre (and in action cinema) True detective, specifically to Episode 4 of his season 1, directed by Cary Joji Fukushima. The wounded assault of the end includes a six -minute outlet with SteaDicam whose approach and development have been copied in satiety in infinity of subsequent titles, including the colossal battles of Game of Thrones.
‘Daredevil’ (2015)
A tradition consolidated by the first season of the series of Daredevil With Charlie Cox is that each new delivery contains a file Long ultraviolent combat scene in continuous plan without cuts. In the phase of Netflix, The question was refined by a very debtor scene in the room Oldboy (2003) up to An authentic 11 minutes wild in the third season. Daredevil: born again, Already in Disney+, he tried to innovate starting from one of these, but he orchestrated in depth instead of lateral movements.
‘Mr. Robot ‘(2017)
An ultra -formal director like Sam Esmail He also tested his skills for the acrobatic plan without cuts in the opening sequence of the Episode 5 of the season 3 of the series starring Malek’s arms. As in most of these cases, the scenario changes and the most complicated moments of splicing have had the help of the post -digital production touch, to be imperceptible.
“The Haunting of Hill House” (2018)
The series of Mike Flanagan The terrifying potential of his is extremely increased episode 6 with a succession of five planes full of chills but without cuts, the longest of which He left until 18 minutes And he moved between different places and temporal moments. Of absolute fear.
‘Kidding’ (2018)
A specialist on stage wired and full of transpantojos like Michel Gondry, Vanguardist of the musical video of the change of the century, orchestrated one of the plans without cuts Old school more complicated than the decade in episode 3 of the series starring Jim Carrey. Of course, it was Jake Schreier (Thunderbolts*) Who directed this chapter where five years of rehabilitation in the life of the character of Riki Lindhome They pass in two minutes without interruption but many theatrical movements between rack.
‘Patriot’ (2018)
A more traditional video sequence plan is the one he performed Steven Conrad in it Episode 3 of the season 2 From your series starring Michael Dorman in which a background song marks the following without the cuts of the character as it takes the subway to hit in a power shop until the return is captured with a precise knowledge of the frequency of the Parisian suburban passage to coordinate the beginning and the end.
‘The Collapse’ (2019)
If you are looking for another series that each of its episodes as an effort sequence plan, you are certainly interested in taking a look at this Influential work of the French collective Les Parasites (Jérémy Bernard, Guillaume Desjardins and Bastien Ughetto). The collapse portrays the different phases of an incessant social, economic and environmental collapse during 8 episodes of about 20 minutes, All in a single blow that transmits the urgency of the situation.
‘The bear’ (2022)
Obviously the series of Christopher Storer, So worried about the transfer of the anxiety of a kitchen, he took advantage of the possibilities of a single appointment to increase the counter -ride of a working day among the stoves of Jeremy Allen White And company. There are 18 minutes without cuts that were issued a year later Boil (2021), the film by Philip Barantini With Stephen Graham (director and actor of Adolescence) With a similar approach in a restaurant.
‘Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Mendez’ (2024)
One a little different to end. Him Episode 5 of season 2 of this criminal anthology produced by Ryan Murphy, directed by Michael Uppendahl, It rises like A single 34 -minute plan in which the camera progressively performs a Soft zoom on the face of Erik Mendez (Cooper Koch) while describing the sexual abuse to which he was subjected by his father.
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