What is the pseudo-long shot in the movie?

"Pseudo Long Shot" Made by Special Effects and Editing

Long shots, because shooting is difficult, those classic long shots in the history of movies are precious. But now, the pervasive digital technology is offending it and subverting it. ...

The professional explanation of the long shot in the film is: a long uninterrupted shot in one go, the so-called "one mirror to the end."

However, I am afraid that this definition will be changed now. Accurately speaking, the shooting process of pseudo-long lens is a process of "shooting+production". So many people know for the first time that this "long shot" has done a lot of special effects and is composed of several shots.

This is another attack on art by technology. Regarding the significance of the existence of long shots, andre bazan, the spiritual father of the new wave of French movies, has a famous conclusion: the authenticity of movies is reflected by the authenticity of time and space. But now, omnipotent technology is subverting it. Some insiders said that when a long lens can be made by technical means, it means its end.

Those precious classic long shots

Once, long shots were regarded as the commanding heights of film art means-the means mentioned here is to realize "a mirror to the end". Director Hu Xuehua said that a short three to five-minute long shot, which integrates actor performance, character scheduling, lens movement, lighting control, scene change and traveling route, needs to mobilize various equipment such as camera car, stabilizer, slide rail and rocker arm, and it is common to shoot for one or two days. Because it can't be edited, long shots must be strictly calculated and perfectly controlled. If you are not careful, you will lose the game. Because it is difficult to shoot, whether you can shoot a long shot well has become an important test paper to measure the director's skill.

In 2004, Du Qifeng won the 4 1 Golden Horse Award for Best Director of Taiwan Film for the opening long shot of The Big Event. This shot lasted nearly 7 minutes, including two lens lifts and a 360-degree turn. Policemen, gangsters and journalists crisscross a street in an orderly way. The whole shooting scene is complicated and dazzling, but it is not messy. In order to shoot this long shot well, the crew first spent 1 day practicing, and it took 2 days for the official shooting.

Pseudo-long shot means that the long shot has changed from the original artistic means to a special effect, and its connotation has completely changed.

When digitalization can create all illusions, it is the progress of film technology, but it is the retrogression of film art. Why do we have to take a long shot? Yes, you can understand movies as the art of dreaming, but even dreaming needs realism, and the existence of long lenses is to create realism. According to andre bazan's theory, a long shot is different from a montage, because it keeps the authenticity of time, space, process, atmosphere and performance in shooting, and excludes the possibility of forgery and body ghosting. It emphasizes the director's self-elimination, avoids the subjectivity brought by camera switching, impresses the audience with the inherent original power of the picture and gives the audience the right to interpret things and events. Now, the pervasive digital technology has to dispel the meaning of the long lens.

Finally, I'd like to introduce the movie Birdman, which just won the Oscar for Best Picture. There are many pseudo-long shots, which give people a great feeling of being there, but they are all the results of post-processing, and the film won the crown because of the feeling of one go.

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