Satsuma wrote:
Mr Robot’s continuous take episode (last year I think, or was it early this year?) was extremely well done and did a great job of varying the shots.
Turns out this was
made out 31 shots. It looks great, and they did a great job of hiding the cuts, but it's clearly not on the same level of achievement as tHoHH's five-shots-for-53-minutes, which is monstrously ambituous.
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I could have sworn that The Haunting’s episode had a clear cut midway through the episode where they flashed back. I ain’t watching it again to find out though.
No, I think you're right, I think there's at least one clear cut, presumably where they couldn't physically make the shot work even appearing to be continuous so just went with the cut. I don't mind that. I also don't mind how tHoHH used a lot of slow pans and swoops and rotations that made it feel very stagey, very much like a play but where the camera is an extra participant. I guess some people might have found that off-putting, but it really worked for me.