Shot (filmmaking)

[1] Film shots are an essential aspect of a movie where angles, transitions and cuts are used to further express emotion, ideas and movement.

Films famous for their long cuts include Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather in which the entire first scene is a long take featuring Bonasera describing the assault on his daughter, and Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, which only cuts at the end of each reel, and does so surreptitiously so that it seems as if the whole film is one take.

Orson Welles's Touch of Evil opens with a long tracking crane shot, as does Robert Altman's The Player.

In addition to Russian Ark, which was made in 2002 using digital recording technology, other films known for their extremely long takes include Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the works of Andrei Tarkovsky starting with Solaris.

Although Fish & Cat is a single 134-minute long take, the narrator succeeded in playing with time and including several flashbacks.