This last reading covers the advantages and the various aspects of using a single master shot, this kind of shot is a long singular take where the actors can move freely and have dialogues in real time where they can react to the lines as soon as they are delivered or even before they are.

These techniques have many advantages and have a real impact on the shooting process of the film as well as impacting the film itself, when we were able to have physical classes, we had the opportunity to try something similar with a class exercise we did when we were tasked to shoot a scene in one take.

Reflecting on that exercise, I can understand how a scene of this kind would work, be of many uses, but can also see how sometimes it could be difficult to pool off. Theoretically, a film and its scenes should do the best to capture the viewer’s attention with every shot so that it does not feel boring or heavy, but this is a difficult thing to achieve all the time. Nonetheless, it does not mean that a master shot cannot create interest, the movements of the actors, their performance, and their position shifting in the shot, all these factors can contribute to forming a dynamic scene so that the viewer does not even notice the lack of different shots.

This is when, in my opinion, all the aforementioned readings in the previous reflections come to play a very important role. To generate attention in a scene with a single master shot, the background has to be coherent and also engaging and complex, so that the viewer does not get bored of the area with time and as for the actors, they should have the liberty to move around in a not boring and rehearsed way, but in a manner that makes unpredictable what will happen and where they will go.