Week 9, it was also the week of the presentation for Research Project, Assignment #3. Interestingly, Commack’s topic was about the long take, which led me to ponder the relationship between it and my topic, Decoupage. Thus, I would like to discover what would be the similarity of them and the opposite through this reflection. “Decoupage as its simplest, corresponds to the shooting script and continuity “(Barnard, 2014). In some way, the choice of using long take was for demonstrating an integral time and space rather than one cut up by editing. And in order to achieve such the aesthetics of continuity, the director should plan the blocking of performers, the blocking of the camera movement and so on (All called detailed pre-preparation). In short, Decoupage itself had participated in a “good” exercise of the long take throughout. (Now we could see a lot of amateur filmmakers abuse long take skill, which may affect the audience feel the technique was pointless in some scenes. Boring, unprofessional and rough).
Moreover, a long take is defined as an uninterrupted shot in a film which lasts much longer than the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general, usually lasting several minutes. Long takes is a sequence filmed in one shot without any editing and any cuts between plans. And as the plan of a long take – there was the other word named “plan sequence”. I considered Plan sequence and Decoupage share the same idea of pre-preparation of shooting a long take which involved sophisticated camera movement.