The Long Take

For our long take, we are going to have relatively simple action, but with more complicated choreography. Like Tarantino achieves in the long take above, we plan to have people moving in and out, over taking, camera turns and zooms in.

We plan to have our female character walking down the street, and then from around the corner the man turns to follow her. She over takes the camera, which then goes to focus on the man following her. The camera then catches up with the girl, and unlike the beginning of the take, the camera now frames her face in a mid/cu as she begins to suspect that she is being followed and turns round to see if there is in fact someone following her. The man at this point has hidden himself out of sight in a doorway. Following this action, the camera then turns to face down an alleyway, which the girl subsequently goes down to hide from the person she thinks is following her. The camera remains static and we see the man walk past. The camera then moves in to frame the girl again and follows her as she puts the bag down. The camera then moves forward as she opens it and we see her face glowing. The camera zooms out until the girls feet and the bag are in frame. Here, the shot ends.