The Incredible Camera Work Thread

[PWN3R]

Post your favorite tracking shots, dolly maneuvers, steadicam tricks, anything. I just love those long continuous takes where the camera follows a certain character. The time and dedication it takes to work these out demands the highest respect.

Paul Thomas Anderson is an insanely talented director, I just love the opening three minute shot to Boogie Nights.

It works on so many levels, not only is it wonderfully executed, it shows you all the characters whose world you're going to be inhabiting for the next couple hours.

The Protector is a movie where the first time I watched it, I fast forwarded between fight scenes. Story is pretty much your average, 'dude must fight tons of guys' plot, but there is one scene in that movie that has a special place in my heart:

. That's as beautiful as violence can get.

David Fincher's Panic Room. The camera just floats around everything in the room. Now this is why CGI was created:


Those are just a few I like, don't even have to mention Scorsese's stuff, or the beautifully captured 5 minute take in Atonement.

Post your favorites, can't wait to see what you guys come up with.

 

[craigdbfan]

The Protectors fighting scene you posted is completely rad. One of of the most kick ass fight scenes I've seen in any "martial art" film.

I also had a great time watching the movie. Tony Jaa is awesome.

 

[PWN3R]

I can't even fathom the kind of planning that must have went into it. I mean, one screw up, and the whole thing is ruined.

It's really quite an achievement and freaking defines kick ass.

 

[hpwiz89]

Cloverfield.

 

[K.B.]

Running Time

 

[PWN3R]

Man Bites Dog has some really good camera shots too. I just saw that film for the first time last night, and damn. Sick stuff.

 

[what_19]

resevoir dogs, pulp fiction...jackie brown....death proof...tarantino is golden on these kind of "complete conversation/real life (even thouhg its completely not real) types of long ass one take scenes

and by one take, i mean no cutting/splicing

pretty cool stuff

 

[Gilpesh]

The opening shot of Touch of Evil. Awesome. Pure awesome.

 

[Kaiser]

Anything from Citizen Cane and Once Upon A Time In The West

 

[CFE]

The Hallway Fight Scene in "Old-Boy"

And yes...the mise-en-scene opening Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil"

 

[Jackasscoley15]

Anything from early John Carpenter and Sergio Leone.

 

[Spikey]

Doom (the gamer inside me make me post this lol)
[YT]84qPafzJaig[/YT]

Children of Men (the war scene!!)
[YT]yuZSmSBLWAg[/YT]

 

[citizenpain]

you mention fincher's panick room, fight club is full of awesome long shots where cgi comes in very handy such as the narrator's apartment exploding and the scene at the end where they zoom out the window then go down the side of the building to the basement and to the van with the explosives inside it.

 

[CFE]

Oh...that crazy (CRAZY) Parking Garage scene from "Death Sentence" !!!

 

[Spyder07]

Wheres the vids?

Anyways, always loved some of the shots and angles in Equilibrium.

 

[Hamill-Joker]

Too many to list

 

[victor hugo]

without thinking too much about it consistantly kubrick, hitchcock, and marty. more recently danny boyle (energy and color), sam raimi, wally pfister, and alfonso cauron gasper noe. buffalo 66 has some great shots and p.t. anderson is always good for greatness. gondry and jonze.

cosign on man bites dog which reminds me of band of outsiders and breathless. the anti thesis to hitchcock and welles. precursers to the steady cam long shot psuedo docu school of filmaking.

 

[PWN3R]

If the footage is available online, then by all means post it. That's the point.

This is one of my favorite music videos. Just genius.
[YT]d3vIv1EwO5A[/YT]

 

[dark_b]

Children of Men (the war scene!!)

i remember this.
how long did they film this? how many takes?

 

[JokerLedger]

The market shoot-out scene in the Korean flick The Good The Bad The Weird.

holy ****... one of the best camera work I have ever seen in an action movie.

 

[SWAT]

The bathroom fight in True Lies looked nice.

 

[danger]

once upon a time in the west-opening scene
the good, the bad, and the ugly-final shootout

 

[Spikey]

i remember this.
how long did they film this? how many takes?

According to the director, they filmed that sequence three times. The last one made it to the movie.

 

[The Chris]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has terrific camera work (then again, Alfonso Cuaron directed it).

[YT]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G1TEF1-i5iA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G1TEF1-i5iA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YT]

From 1:55-2:38


Goodfellas of course had a terrific tracking shot

Road to Perdition had these scenes as well. Love the work here.
This next one from 0:21-1:58

All of Spielberg's films have awesome angles and movements. There's a moving, long take high angle in Minority Report showing all the apartments on Tom Cruise's floor. 1:21-2:34



I love the camera work in Michael Mann films, particularly Collateral.

M. Night Shyamalan usually has great camera work, even in his unfortunate work.

 

[Motown Marvel]

pretty much every single shot in road to perdition is like a gorgeous painting. i've seen lots of films, and road to perdition is one of the best looking movies i've ever seen. great flick too.