# Is this video one continuous shot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-one-continuous-shot/634005 "2012-09-07T16:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-one-continuous-shot/634005/21 "2012-09-11T16:39:52Z")
Just contributing to the answer already given, Ms. Swift was on VH1 this weekend saying it was one shot and describing the frantic nature of getting to your next position. She also said that this was take No. 18. I’ve seen various one shot videos before and like the effect but I’ll agree that this one goes above and beyond the usual. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-one-continuous-shot/634005/22 "2012-09-11T17:22:28Z")
Here is a single shot, two camera video by Cibo Matto called [Sugar Water](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN9auBn6Jys) Here is another very creative “single-take” in Kylie Minogue’s [Come Into My World](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b601_tUuNDM), although there was a lot of post-processing. Not coincidentally they were both directed by Michel Gondry ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-one-continuous-shot/634005/23 "2012-09-11T18:27:54Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Here is another very creative “single-take” in Kylie Minogue’s [Come Into My World](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b601_tUuNDM), although there was a lot of post-processing. > > Not coincidentally they were both directed by Michel Gondry Thanks so much for sharing that. The song is entirely disposable, but the video is the work of a mad genius. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-one-continuous-shot/634005/24 "2012-09-11T18:54:41Z")
I have always been impressed with another Michael Gondry video, Lucas With the Lid Off. Also done in one continuous shot. https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x15o91 ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-one-continuous-shot/634005/25 "2012-09-11T19:23:03Z")
The Smashing Pumpkins [Ava Adore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uWwvQKGjLI) is another one shot video. At the 2:35 the camera spins to reveal the dolly track and the crew. There seem to be a number of “cheats” as the band moves around pillars which may hide splices between different takes. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-one-continuous-shot/634005/26 "2012-09-11T19:24:35Z")
> [@Mavic\_Chen](#): > > It reminds me of that Honda ad from a few years back where there was a cascade of falling objects that kept the sequence going. Apparently heavily based on Fischli and Weiss’ _[The Way Things Go](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Go)_, which must be the template for this sort of thing. As far as I can tell Fischli and Weiss did it for the lulz - there’s some guff about trying to capture the transient energy of their art installations, but I reckon they did it for the fun of it - and why not? The irony is that _The Way Things Go_ clearly wasn’t one continuous _take_, although the process it depicts appears to have been a single _event_. There’s a potentially fascinating but frustratingly imprecise database of average shot lengths for movies [here](http://www.cinemetrics.lv/database.php?sort=asl), some of which have shots longer than entire pop videos. Béla Tarr features quite a lot. He never directed a pop video, as far as I know. [Here’s a video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiWgUMKjtqc) of some people dressed in Mexican outfits serenading a floating thing. Manitoba? Manatee? Marmite? ---
**Author:** ![FoundWaldo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@FoundWaldo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoundWaldo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-one-continuous-shot/634005/27 "2012-09-11T19:27:50Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Her “band” seems to be the same “band” from the last video I saw of hers (Mean), so they’re either her actual band or the same set of friends At the risk of damaging my street cred, I’ll admit I’ve been to a Taylor Swift concert. And I can confirm that is her actual band. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-video-one-continuous-shot/634005.md?page=1)