Sentence examples for one continuous take from inspiring English sources

Iñárritu films the story in what seems to be one continuous take (even though there are also transitions, achieved digitally, that sew together events that occur over gaps in time).

It would mainly consist of self-contained scenes, done from one angle, in one continuous take, with no informational dialogue, no functional shots, no plot devices or any of the usual tricks cinema uses to suggest or elicit emotion.

I'm not convinced either film offers much in the way of catharsis or reflection, though at least this one is formally interesting, playing out in "real time" and as one continuous take.

Certainly, the technique pays dividends, most notably in Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway's breathtakingly fragile rendition of I Dreamed a Dream, delivered in one continuous take, pitched somewhere between a whisper and a scream, between speech and song, with eye-watering results.

You may have heard by now that Sebastian Schipper's heart-speeding heist thriller was shot in one continuous take – one prodigiously athletic 130-minute take, that is, racing through more than 20 locations in downtown Berlin without a single cut or digital join.

"I shot the video as one continuous take and converted the footage into a digital slit-scan," Johnston explains.

Like so much great Australian cinema, Stenders' low-budget production (configured to resemble one continuous long take, in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman) opened small and failed to connect with audiences.

Habitual misery-monger Iñárritu lightens up for once – so much so the camera takes flight, whisking us through this backstage tragicomedy in one apparently continuous take.

[Kechiche] shot with three cameras, so the fight scene was a one-hour continuous take.

He was also dead-set on doing it all in one continuous 13-minute take, in order to lock in on the cop's personality and state of mind.

That jibes with the initial reports that the opening of the film is one continuous, 17-minute take.