The phrase "as a single scene" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a moment or event that is perceived or presented as one cohesive unit or image.
Example: "The film's climax was beautifully shot, capturing the entire emotional turmoil as a single scene."
Alternatives: "as one cohesive moment" or "as a unified image".
Chaplin was a demanding director, a perfectionist just as driven as Stanley Kubrick (like him, he could demand as many as a hundred takes for a single scene) and an improviser as inventive as Mike Leigh, working from a ghost of a script and seeing how bits of dramatic "business" turned out on film.
One of the few tracks off the album not to be released as a single, Scenes From an Italian Restaurant was an ambitious multi-part epic, inspired by the B-side of the Beatles' Abbey Road, stitching together several song fragments and vignettes, with enough charisma to make this Frankenstein's monster succeed.
It has also been refreshing to return to comedy after the intensity of After Love, where there were as many as 80 takes for a single scene.
The fact that we're having this conversation means that we've compromised.' " He is also famous for shooting as many as 90 takes of a single scene, and then for reshooting the scenes sometimes.
But in the opera it is all telescoped into a single scene: As soon as Bill learns of the money, they fight over it.
When Danny Boyle sought to project Britain to the global television audience watching the Olympic opening ceremony this summer, he needed only to cast two individuals, each as mythic as the other, in a single scene: Queen Elizabeth II and James Bond.
Similarly, a good share of Altman's fame must go to the engineers who coordinated the radio miking of as many as a dozen characters in a single scene in Nashville.
The classic slapstick movie Airplane doesn't have a single scene as ridiculous as this real life situation.
"And, I mean, Jack did a relationship with Jennifer Lopez already in 'Blood and Wine.' ") As it happens, not a single scene from "About Schmidt" the book appears in "About Schmidt" the movie.
The story unfolds in a crazy world of kaleidoscopic kidulthood which gets more sombre and monochrome as things proceed: not a single scene or frame goes past without the cymbal clash of wackiness or the splat of surreality.
