WEEK 9 (Presentation Week)

This week is a week of presentation. We need to find a topic that interests us and then explore and study this topic. This week’s presentation is also to report on our topic and then research the direction.

The subject of my research is a long take. In fact, the reason for choosing this topic is because I really like the long-take video and it feels very cool, and I feel that it takes very rigorous and meticulous planning in terms of arrangement and planning to complete the long-take. The original research theme was to consider choosing a certain director and then exploring the filming style and techniques of that director. However, I later found that such research would be more limited because I can only explore and research the work of this director, so after that, I changed my mind and changed it to a film technique so that I can explore and research from a larger scope.

In this presentation, I also state my theme, and then I chose the movie ‘1917’ as the beginning of my research. I chose the movie ‘1917’ because it is a movie that uses a long-take from beginning to end, and this kind of long-take is not a long-take in the traditional sense. It uses some shooting techniques to make the whole movie look like a long-take movie, and this is also what I want to study because modern society is different from the previous 19th and 20th centuries. The previous long-take was pure long-take and it was really a whole piece of film. But the current long-take is no longer like before. It will make the audience feel that the shole shot has not been edited and is very coherent, but in fact, it uses shooting techniques and editing techniques to make the whole look coherent.

After the lecture, the teacher also gave me opinions. It may be because I only cited one example and did not clearly express the main points I want to explore. The teacher asked me if I could explore this topic more deeply. I actually think it’s okay, because the way of making long shots in different movies is actually different, and the current long shots are even more different because they are not really long shots, so I think they can be explored still a lot.