What do people mean by long shots in movies?

A long shot is a long time, and it has been used to shoot a scene without cutting or changing.

Generally, there is no scene change for more than 10 second. Even long shots are rare in Hollywood movies. Long shots are generally narrative, quiet and gentle, while some Hollywood blockbusters change shots very quickly in pursuit of visual stimulation. For example, if a person is driving, this lens keeps shooting him driving for about 10 second, but the lens may not be fixed, and there may be push-pull jitter and so on.

But the character scenes and so on remain unchanged. If it's a driving scene in a Hollywood movie, it may take two seconds to shoot the car, interspersed with something else and clips. Hou Hsiao-hsien, director of China, is the one who uses long shots in most love movies.

Focus plane is a continuous picture segment shot by a film camera between a starting point and an ending point, and it is the basic unit of film composition. Short for lens.

The lens consists of the following factors: ① Picture, including one or several different pictures. ② Scenery: including distant view, panoramic view, middle view, close-up view and close-up. (3) Shooting angles, including recumbent, supine, prone, forward, backward and sideways. (4) the movement of the lens, that is, the movement of the camera, including shaking, pushing, pulling, moving, following, rising, falling and zooming, can sometimes be used in combination with several methods. ⑤ The length of the lens. 6. The sound of the lens is both inside and outside the picture.

Lens combination is the way of film composition, also called montage. Assembly is basically divided into two types: segmentation and combination. According to the requirements of the film content, the development of the plot and the psychology of the audience, it is logical.