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{{trope|wppage=Long take}}
One very long continuous shot. The camera moves, the actors move, things happen, the camera keeps shooting. Difficult. Expensive. Rarely makes it out of the editing room intact.
This used to be much more common, since before Desi Arnaz's [[Three Cameras]] technique and pre-shooting on film became popular, most TV shows were done live with just one camera.
The [
Compare [[Leave the Camera Running]], which may also be a long single shot, but is really distinguished by its staticity. Also compare [[Epic Tracking Shot]], where the camera movements are virtually impossible without some sort of visual trickery. A [[Sub
{{examples
== [[Advertising]] ==▼
* The Old Spice ''[[
▲== Advertising ==
▲* The Old Spice ''[[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like (Advertising)|The Man Your Man Could Smell Like]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE commercial]. It's only 33 seconds long, but so much happens in those 33 seconds that it deserves a spot on here. ([[Testosterone Poisoning]] [[Serial Escalation]]!)
** And its sequel, called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLTIowBF0kE Questions]." Some of this is even more impressive than the first commercial.
* Honda's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9o9Sr_vw5I&feature=related "COG"], taken in two takes (and only because the room wasn't long enough to fit the whole thing; the splice occurs with the rolling exhaust pipe) after ''193'' failed attempts.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y27vijCWxSg Man Who Walked Around the World], a six and a half minute advertisement/mini-documentary for Johnnie Walker Whiskey starring Robert Carlyle.
== [[Anime]] ==
* "Cannon Fodder," from the anthology movie ''[[Memories]]'', is animated to seem like a continuous shot.▼
==
▲* "Cannon Fodder," from the anthology movie ''Memories'' is animated to seem like a continuous shot.
* ''[[Serenity]]'' introduces the crew by tracking through the ship in a oner. It actually needed two shots because of the configuration of the ship sets. The cut is disguised with a [[Whip Pan]].
* This was a trademark of [[Orson Welles]]' work:
** There are two long takes in ''[[
** There's a four-minute continuous take in ''The Stranger'' that starts in the middle of the road and then follows the actors through the forest.
** The opening sequence of [[Orson Welles]]' ''[[Touch of Evil]]'' features one of the most famous continuous camera shots. It's also an impressively long [[Tracking Shot]].
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** None of them are real cuts, though- the camera had to be changed and stopped, and the action had to be broken off, but the actual shot is continuous.
* [[Quentin Tarantino]] examples:
** The final, Tarantino-directed segment of ''[[Four Rooms]]''.
** In ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', the scene with Jules and Vincent in the apartment building hallway at the beginning is one shot. A shorter one follows Vince into and through Jackrabbit Slim's.
** In ''[[Jackie Brown]]'' the opening credits with Jackie on a moving sidewalk were a single shot.
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** In ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'', Mr. Blonde walking to his car to retrieve gasoline in order to light a captured, beaten, and tortured cop on fire.
** In ''[[Grindhouse|Death Proof]]'', a conversation in a coffee shop around half-way through.
* ''[[
* The famous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OzB-mop6AA "hallway rampage"] sequence of Chanwook Park's ''[[
* The tour of a London neighborhood at night at the start of ''Absolute Beginners'' is an even more extreme example, as it is also a complete musical number as well.
* An even earlier cinematic use, possibly even the first, was in the 1931 version of ''[[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'', which begins with a three-minute continuous shot which moves between two interiors across a large
* Hal Ashby's ''Bound for Glory'' has one.
* [[Brian De Palma]]'s ''[[
** ''Snake Eyes'' deserves special mention for both it's length and complexity. The only other Oner which matches it is Tony Jaa's ascent up the restaurant in ''Tom Yum Goong''.
** DePalma loves this. It's used in ''[[The Untouchables]]'', for suspense before {{spoiler|Wallace and George get killed}}, and in ''Redacted'', where it's [[Justified Trope|justified]] through the use of supposedly found footage.
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* ''[[Children of Men]]'' features a number of these, with a degree of special effects assistance which has not been completely revealed. It's known that some of the shots used blue screen effects, and some were stitched together cleverly from short takes.
** The in-car sequence required a complex rig that was placed on top of the car so there would be no equipment in the car aside from the camera itself while it was moving. CGI was used heavily to add elements that would have been impossible to film traditionally, as well as replacing parts of the car that had to be removed.
** [[Alfonso Cuaron]] seems to enjoy these - there's a couple of sequences in ''[[Harry Potter (
*** The Time-Turner scene. Hermione puts the Time-Turner around hers and Harry's necks. They go back in time and turn around to run out of the clock tower. The camera goes out through the clock and catches up with them in the courtyard. This all happens in one take which lasts for slightly longer than one minute.
*** [[Chris Columbus]] was impressed by these because the length of the shots in the first film were ''literally how long the kids could stay in character''. The kids improved a bit by the second film, so the shots are somewhat longer than on the first, but not by too much. So naturally Columbus found it impressive that they had come far enough to do an entire scene in one take by the third movie.
** And again, in ''Y Tu Mama Tambien'', during the scene where the boys are driving the car.
*** Also, while less impressive from a technical point of view (there's no tracking), the scene where the boys are hitting on Luisa while watching the mariachis.
** Another example from Cuaron: the kiss under the rain in ''Great Expectations''.
** Let's not forget his sequence in ''Paris, je t'aime'', called "Parc Monceau." The whole short film was one continuous shot.
* [[John Woo]]'s ''Hard-Boiled'' includes a two-minute and forty-two second long take of Tequila (Chow Yun-Fat) and Alan (Tony Leung) clearing room after room of bad guys during the big shootout at the hospital. The Criterion edition of this Hong Kong action classic actually has a chapter dedicated to this sequence called "2 Minutes, 42 Seconds."
* The movie ''Postcards From The Edge'' starts with a scene [[Lampshading]] this practice; a misspoken line threatens to ruin the entire shot.
* ''Cannon Fodder'', the third segment of Katsuhiro Otomo's ''Memories'' is over twenty minutes long, but consists of a single, long shot.
* ''[[Fight Club (
* The scene in ''[[Goodfellas]]'' where Henry Hill takes his girlfriend to the nightclub, past the line at the door, in through the kitchen and out into the club is a well known example.
** After three takes, [[Martin Scorsese|Scorsese]]'s assistant director asked if they could take a break because the extras were getting tired. Scorsese had not realized that, to save money, the extras outside the club were also the extras for the interior, and had to run in and get in place while the camera was in the kitchen.
** The reason the shot is so long is that while Scorsese was allowed to film at the real Copacabana club, he couldn't use the main entrance.
*** This is what prompted Scorcese to do the tracking shot, but once he'd started filming it he decided to artificially extend the shot to exaggerate the effect: Henry and Karen's route through the kitchens is actually a complete loop, and they leave through the door they came in.
** The main stumbling block on the shot was Henny Youngman, playing himself as the entertainer at the end of the shot; he kept flubbing his lines after the rest of the shot was completed successfully.
* Rare in [[James Bond (
* Perhaps the most disturbing example of
* ''[[Be Kind Rewind]]'' has a nice oner where we see a bunch of films getting edited simultaneously.
* ''All Quiet on the Western Front,'' the 1930 version has a rather long shot of French soldiers getting mowed down.
* While they aren't true oners a lot of older musicals have dance numbers with few cuts. "Fit as a Fiddle" from ''[[Singin' in
** [[Fred Astaire]] insisted on doing his dance numbers this way.
** Busby Berkeley supplied a famous example in ''Lady Be Good.'' Two-thirds of Eleanor Powell's dance to "Fascinating Rhythm" is a single shot.
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', [[The Joker]], a hospital, and a lot of bombs, some of them even going off (the trouble he has with the detonator was a [[Throw It In]]).
* ''[[The Longest Day]]'' has an immensely long shot in which a helicopter follows the French commandos storming a few blocks in a long stretch that was masterfully orchestrated.
** I'd say it's the film's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. And this is a three
* Propaganda pic ''I Am Cuba'' has some incredibly long takes filmed from the back of moving cars, and in one, which follows the coffin of a dead student through crowded streets, the camera goes up the sides of a building, through the top floor, and then out again along a balcony...{{spoiler|It was done by having the camera passed along a 'bucket line' of volunteers!}}
* Darren Aaronofsky's ''[[The Wrestler]]'' has two extended sequences which follow its protagonist from just behind his shoulders.
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* ''Big Fat Liar'' actually does one of these very well, in Jaleel White's introductory scene at an on-location film shoot. The DVD deleted scenes contain an even longer cut of the same shot.
* ''[[Cloverfield]]'' has a lot of these, due to its premise of the camera being operated by one of the main characters.
* Ed Burtynski's documentary ''Manufactured Landscapes'' opens with an alarmingly long shot of a Chinese factory
* ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' has two oners of Shaun walking from his flat, across the street to the store, and back. One of them takes place before the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] and one is during. Shaun had just woken up and is equally oblivious in both.
* The opening scene of ''[[Strange Days]]'', taking about five minutes with a handicam and several physical stunts (like climbing a ladder and jumping off a building) and ends with {{spoiler|the POV cameraman/character falling off a roof and dying.}}
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** Joe Wright's a fan of these. In Pride and Prejudice, right after Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy dance at the ball, a montage of the ball starts. It's easy to miss that this is really one long shot. After a bit of dialogue, Keira Knightley had to sprint through the house to pass a doorway before the camera got to it, and then steady her breathing for when the camera got to her in her next position.
* ''[[Boogie Nights]]'' has several of these, including the opening, the pool party, the scene where {{spoiler|Little Bill shoots his wife, her lover, and himself}}, and the ending.
* ''[[
* David Copperfield employs these for several of his "make enormous things disappear" tricks.
* Both ''[[Henry V]]'' films have one. Olivier's 1944 version had the charge of the French cavalry at the beginning of the Battle of Agincourt. Branagh's 1989 version had the king walking the battlefield at the end of the same battle.
** Branagh's actually has a second extended shot earlier in the film. When [[One
* ''[[
* ''[[Irreversible]]'' consists entirely of Oners shown in reverse order. One contains {{spoiler|a murder, another a rape}}.
* ''$la$her$'' appears to be shot entirely in one continuous take done by the cameraman of a murder reality show. The cuts were actually disguised by being done when no actor was on camera, but there's still fewer than one cut per 10 minutes of action throughout the movie.
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** [[Memetic Mutation|"Yo dawg, I herd you like cranes..."]]
* The opening shot of ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' is the longest CGI generated one-shot, it goes for at least a couple of minutes.
* ''[[
* Kenneth Branagh's 1996 movie version of ''[[Hamlet]]'' features several entire scenes, including ones that span several rooms, shot in a single take as well as most of the soliloquies.
** Branagh appears to like this technique: he used it three years earlier in his adaptation of ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' as well. Roughly the last eight minutes is one continuous shot.
* In the film of the musical ''[[
* ''[[All the
* [[James Rolfe]] had to make a film for his film course where he had to make the whole thing a oner. Pretty much deciding "Screw that" (he's much less profane than [[The Angry Video Game Nerd
** Although he did make a film in 2000 called ''[
* The film ''[[Death Sentence]]'' has one which follows Kevin Bacon's character chasing a [[Mook]] through several floors of a parking complex.
* ''[[Funny Games]]'' featured several of these throughout the film, including a 10-minute take of Anna and Georg cutting through their bonds and moving into the kitchen after {{spoiler|the killers murder their son and seemingly leave them alone in their own house.}}
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* [[Dario Argento]]'s ''Tenebre'' takes a crane shot up one side of a building, over the roof, and down the other, for no reason other than that [[Rule of Cool|it's awesome]].
* Except for maybe the Flying Elvises, ''Honeymoon In Vegas'' is a thoroughly forgettable movie that happens to contain one of the best put-together long takes I've ever seen. It's August in Vegas, and two old-school wiseguys (James Caan and Johnny Williams) arrive for a little R&R. They're shown in a dolly shot walking poolside upon their arrival, walking, walking, weaving around cabana chairs and splashing children, walking, walking, for about 30 seconds ... suddenly Caan stops and turns to Williams:
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* In the first ''[[Superman (
** It's also not a single take, but two shots very cleverly edited together.
* A quite powerful one near the end of ''[[Wall Street]]'', as Charlie Sheen {{spoiler|is arrested for insider trading and slowly breaks down in tears during the long walk out of the office.}}
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* ''[[La Vie En Rose]]''. [[Tear Jerker|You know the scene.]]
* Gus Van Sant frequently uses long takes. In ''[[Elephant]]'', for example, shots often show characters simply walking for several minutes of screen time, sometimes without the camera even following them (that is, they walk away and the camera remains stationary, with them shrinking into the scene's background).
** He also used it in his earlier ''[[
*** Another was a seven minute shot of the two of them walking away from the camera (as it followed them) as the sun rose.
** There's a particularly painful one in Last Days, a long shot featuring the camera on a dolly moving slowly backwards from a window. It was complicated by a) they only had two pieces of dolly track for a movement about five times that distance b) the ground was visible in the shot and c) they were shooting live sound. An extra on the DVD shows a bunch of art dogs trying their damndest to remove the track and then reassemble it behind the dolly while crouching beneath the shot and not making a sound. It took upwards of a dozen tries before they got it.
* M. Night Shyamalan does them a lot. Most notably in ''[[Unbreakable]]'', where about half the film is made up of them.
** The whole earth bending battle in ''[[
*** This was actually used several times throughout the film. Such as when Aang and the Blue Spirit ( {{spoiler|Zuko}}) are escaping a Fire Nation camp and the finale as Aang fights his way through a Fire Nation army in the Water Tribe's settlement.
** In ''[[The Happening]]'' the camera follows a gun as one person after another picks it up and kills themselves.
* Special case: ''[[Dancer in
* Unique, if somewhat short, variant: ''[[Silent Hill (
* The [[Visual Effects of Awesome|amazing]] zero-gravity fight scene in ''[[Inception]]''.
* ''[[Scaramouche (
* ''[[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]]'' uses a few, usually requiring Jim Carrey to [http://www.cracked.com/article_19140_8-movie-special-effects-you-wont-believe-arent-cgi_p2.html run around like a mad man] to be in two places at once.
* ''[[
* ''[[A
* Shows up a few times very effectively in Alfred Hitchcock's ''[[Frenzy]]'':
** A woman enters a building where someone has just been murdered. We spend a good while just waiting outside, until we hear her scream as she discovers the body.
** The killer invites another victim into his apartment, followed by the camera retreating down the stairs as if afraid of what's going to happen, and ends up on the street as numerous people walk by, oblivious to what's happening in the building.
** The protagonist's sentencing after he's framed for the murders is filmed from outside the courtroom, as the soundproof doors only let us hear pieces of what the judge is saying as people walk in and out. They shut just before he states the sentence, but the furious shouting afterwards makes it clear what it was.
* The scene in ''[[Back to The Future|Back to the Future Part II]]'' where the whole [[McFly]] family (including three characters played by Michael J. Fox) eats dinner was filmed as a oner to showcase the new technology that made the scene possible. When someone pointed out that you wouldn't film the scene that way under ordinary circumstances, Zemeckis decided to break it up.
* The scene in ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' where the officers eat dinner is done as one take with the camera panning to follow the conversation like someone sitting at the table turning his head.
* The whole Baggahr chase scene in Spielberg's "[[
* Used in ''[[Bad Lieutenant
* ''[[Hanna]]'' has several long takes, including a 3-minute one happening in a busy bus station and ending in an underground tunnel brawl.
* ''[[The Avengers (
* ''Gun Crazy'' used a oner during a bank holdup filmed from the inside of the getaway car.
* 1942's ''[[Holiday Inn]]'' has an [[In-Universe]] Oner that is quite literally ''impossible'': the sequence being filmed during the movie's climax is an immensely-extended single shot -- so much so that it could never be done in a real filming situation. For example, the director and cameraman somehow switch from an "exterior" boom camera to an "interior" dolly ''without interrupting the shot.''
* The five-minute title scene of the 2009 film of ''[[A Christmas Carol]],
▲* The five-minute title scene of the 2009 film of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]," starting with one conversation with Scrooge, flying all around London and then back down to the other side of the city, finishing with him approaching his house. Also in the same film, the entire "Ghost of Christmas Past" scene simply faded from time period to time period without any cuts.
* In ''[[The Polar Express]]'', the scene where Hero Boy loses a ticket is a oner as we follow the ticket's journey as it blows around in the wind as it returns to the inside of the train.
* A scene near the beginning of ''[[Beowulf (
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Objects in Space," the second-to-last shot of the episode was one long shot over about a minute, showing each member of the crew. It was intended to show that River had been accepted onto the ship as one of the crew, as opposed to a passenger, by having her appear with everyone else on the ship.
** The scene ends with Summer Glau and Jewel Staite in the cargo bay of the ship. Because everything had to go right in one take, if anyone made a mistake, they'd have to start the whole scene over again. When Summer kept screwing up, forcing a reshoot because the ''very last part'' of the long scene (it's about
* BBC documentary series ''[[Planet Earth]]'' included a shot of wild African dogs chasing a gazelle. While the pack strategies used by hunting canines was well understood, an entire hunt had never before been filmed from start to finish. The camera crew used a single camera to capture the hunt from a helicopter in one long shot, which is detailed in the "Making Of" featurette on the DVD.
* The filming of the song "The Parking Ticket" from the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' musical episode was [[
** One of the opening scenes of "The Body" was shot as a oner, which adds to the realism of the episode.
** Maybe the first one to show up in the series is the first episode of season three, as the gang returns to school.
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* And to complete the Whedon Trilogy, the intro of the [[Angel]] Investigations gang on their first day of work at Wolfram & Hart was a oner, and featured every starring member of the cast.
* The ''[[Mad About You]]'' episode "The Conversation" (Paul and Jamie are anguished about whether to leave Mabel alone through the night, not going to her when she cries) was filmed in a single shot, except for [[The Teaser]] and [[The Tag]]. They then apply [[Lampshade Hanging]] in [[The Tag]], when Paul and Jamie are watching and discussing a movie filmed in that way - Paul points out how difficult this is for the actors, while Jamie (who had actually flubbed one of her lines) merely claims "It's their job!"
* One episode of ''
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' opened the series with a long one (Leo arriving for work) and came close to closing the series with a similar one (POTUS Bartlet thanking all of the minor staffers, including a funny inside joke between Martin Sheen and his real-life daughter).
** Quite a few of their [[Walk and Talk]] scenes were done as Oners.
* ''[[The X
** That scene was a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Anderson, as it was the one shot in the episode where the camera was focused ''entirely'' on one character from start to finish. The camera tracked her for 10 minutes, 20 seconds as she engaged in separate but continuous conversations with The Lone Gunmen at her desk, Skinner in his office, Kirsh in his office, Spender in the X-Files office, and again with Skinner in the elevator (who managed to get to first base with Scully before Mulder) before escaping in The Lone Gunmen's van. Brilliant.
* Early episodes of ''[[ER]]'' often used continuous panning or dolly shots to stress the intensity of the moment, during mass-casualty incidents when the whole cast scrambled to save several lives simultaneously. Also used to express how shockingly vacant the ER seemed when everyone was evacuated due to its toxic contamination.
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* The series 4 opener of ''[[Skins]]'' begins with one of these. It's comfortably the best thing about the episode.
* A faked Oner/tracking shot appears in the BBC/[[Discovery Channel]] documentary ''Life'' in the "Plants" episode, where the camera glides through a moss-covered tree while plants grow over an entire season in fast-forward. The whole thing took ''two years'' to compile due to the different growing rates of the plants and lasts ''one minute'' on screen.
* The ''[[
* The intro to ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]'' follows Damien out of the editing suite, switches to other characters as they pass through the busy office (passing all the main characters), moves on to the news-desk set and ends just as they go on air.
* Often used in ''I, Claudius''.
* ''[[Marvel's Daredevil]]'' has an impressive 11-minute uninterrupted sequence with both action and dialogue.
* In the [[Stargate SG
* Rick Mercer's rants, beginning [[Deliberately Monochrome]] on ''[[This Hour Has 22 Minutes]]'' and continuing (in full color) on the ''[[Rick Mercer Report]]''. Comedienne Elvira Kurtz, on her short lived series ''Popcultured!'', did a bit showing all the work that goes into these Oners, including holding up a mirror to show the cameraman walking backwards and keeping pace with her with a full rig on his shoulder.
* The penultimate ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' episode "Why we Fight" opens with a shot of a violin being taken out of a case. The camera pulls back to reveal the full string quartet playing in a bombed-out German town, and then executes a complicated maneuver around the town square, showing the townsfolk salvaging whatever they can from the rubble, before tilting up to reveal some members of Easy Company standing in what's left of the upper story of a house. The shot only lasts a couple of minutes, but must have taken ages to set up. (The violin also [[Book End|BookEnds]] the end of the episode.)
* In ''[[Community]]'', the opening scene of Season 2 is a continuous panning shot over multiple sets as the characters wake up to the first day of the new college year.
* In ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', Jesse goes through a long explanation of how he's expected to teach the Mexican Cartel how to cook Walt's meth, followed by Walt cruelly refusing to help him, all done in one take with some very impressive acting by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.
* The ''[[
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' is made of
== [[Music]] ==▼
* The vinyl LP ''Needle Time'' by Warsaw Pakt was recorded direct to disc in two continuous, approximately 20-minute takes.
▲== Music ==
*
* There was something of a “direct to disc” fad in Canada in the late 70s (i.e.: live recording to a vinyl cutter in one take). The (in)famous pop group Rough Trade’s first album was a direct to disc recording
* Icehouse's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz8-6Y9KuVQ Crazy] is an early example.
* [[Spice Girls]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ&ob=av2e "Wannabe."] Actually three shots, broken up by what looks like two very short pans over and "through" walls.
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* [[Jamiroquai]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE "Virtual Insanity."]
* Lisa Loeb, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka9mCmx9Jhs "Stay."]
* [[Prodigy]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BpfydZdTE0 "Smack My Bitch Up"], also filmed in first person with a [[Tomato in
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiTQvT0W_0 "Nothing Compares 2 U"] by Sinead O'Connor - a Oner of Sinead's head looking straight to the camera. Intercut with some shots of her moping around a park in Paris at the insistence of the studio, who had paid to film her in Paris, dammit, and were going to get their money's worth.
* [[Tom Petty]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TlBTPITo1I "You Don't Know How It Feels"] was once credited as the most expensive single-shot music video to date.
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* [[Nine Inch Nails]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCjpyPqwXNA "March Of The Pigs"]
* [[Primus]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtrmbfS_Vuc Mr. Krinkle]
* [[
* Jars of Clay - [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23xjt_jars-of-clay-work_music "Work"].
* Traci Bonham, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK0GgLKUU_I "Mother Mother."]
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* The Tea Party's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIaS8g_Mf9o "Babylon."]
* Semisonic's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERg8kBFhXao "Closing Time"] is two parallel Oners shown side-by-side.
** [[
* Vampire Weekend's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_i1xk07o4g "Oxford Comma"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ "A-Punk"].
* [[Massive Attack]] have two of the best-known videos of this type: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGYRvIOZfZ8 "Unfinished Sympathy"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIp--5E3AbY "Protection"].
* Jack Johnson's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RGhSADIGOY Sitting, Waiting, Wishing]. Done backwards in addition to being a oner.
* While we're at it, God Lives Underwater's video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjtDZ82oZB8 "From Your Mouth"] is also a backwards oner. Strangely hypnotic, if a little disgusting.
*
* The video for Herb Alpert's
* Metric's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqldwoDXHKg Gimme Sympathy]. They even [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHt5caARmh0 let you see how they did it].
* [[Elton John]]'s "I Want Love" is shot like this, following Robert Downey, Jr as he lip-syncs to the song. (Downey, allegedly, kept wanting to gesture with his hands; allegedly, they taped them into his pockets to help him avoid that.)
* Will Young's [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgjz3_will-young-leave-right-now_music Leave Right Now], which took several takes to get right and resulted in a large amount of bruises for a large amount of the cast. Especially Will.
* Inugami Circus Dan's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-3EQoSZCwY Honto ni honto ni gokurosan].
* [[
* [[Janet Jackson]]'s "When I think of You"
* [[Alanis Morrisette]]'s "Head Over Feet"
* [[
* Lisa Stansfield's "Never Gonna Give You Up"
* Ludo's "[
** This acually employs the well-disguised cut at least once.
* Lisa Mitchell's "[https://web.archive.org/web/20091210210318/http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=42216251 Neapolitan Dreams]"
* [[Kylie Minogue]]'s "Come Into My World" is displayed this way, with Kylie walking around a town square, but as she walks back to the start people and objects in the background start repeating, along with past versions of Kylie singing.
* [[The Chemical Brothers]]' "Star Guitar" is also shown as a Oner, but again is obviously CGI. The various components of the song are displayed as objects passing by when looking out of a train window. Both this and the above example were directed by Michel Gondry, who seems to be fond of this trope.
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* LCD Soundsystem's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2V_ZT-nyOs "All My Friends"]. Up close and personal, with added face paint.
* [[Robyn]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ImxY6hnfA "Call Your Girlfriend"] uses it very effectively, with some intense (and seemingly improvised) dance moves and an equally intense light show going on around the Swedish pop star. It's really [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|not to be missed]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLexgOxsZu0 "The Lazy Song"] by [[Bruno Mars]] appears to be this.
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J--8j9zEoHw&feature=player_embedded Evlenmeliyiz]" ("We Should Get Married") by Turkish pop singer Hadise, which [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaks the fourth wall]] in playful fashion.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4 "Mad World"] by Gary Jules.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZyBmN6hWsk "Second Chance"] by Peter Bjorn and John. Much like the video for Mutemath's "Typical", this video features the band performing the song frontwards as various things are poured onto them in reverse. Like the Mutemath video, the band had to [[Back to Front|lip-synch the song backwards]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnHlGONToIc "Happiness"] by [[Goldfrapp]]. Appears to be one-shot, one has to wonder what kind of fitness is needed for over 3 minutes of bunny hopping.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti1W7Zu8j9k "Anti-D"] by the Wombats. An emotionless Murph walks through a suburb while strange and improbable things happen around him until, halfway through, he is mauled by some doctors. They leave, all the colorful characters from before help him up into a chair they've suddenly acquired, lift the chair onto their shoulders, and carry him down the street, throwing confetti and holding balloons. All of this is one shot.
* The drama version of "It's You" by [[
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o9dXLNuXic "Who Dat"] by J. Cole.
* Charlene Kaye's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SXic7a_ZVI&feature=g-u-u&context=G29507b7FUAAAAPAAIAA 'Animal Love I']. They also helpfully [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyO-M_axDR4&feature=g-u-u&context=G2023266FUAAAAAAAAAA show how it is done].
* In [[Iamamiwhoami]]'s hour-long concert video
* [[OK Go]]'s late 2014 video for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u1ZB_rGFyeU "I Won't Let You Down"] was filmed in a single take with a multicopter camera drone. (Well, to be honest, it's the best of forty-four complete takes made over four days.)
* [[BTS (band)|BTS]]' video for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZjt_sA2eso "Save Me"].
* The video for [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o "Tacky"] at least gives the appearance of being one continuous shot, although there are two reasonably obvious points where edits might connect separate bits of footage.
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* Several plays are staged such that the actors never leave the audience's sight. This is especially common in shows with smaller casts, where two actors might carry out what is essentially a single long scene for the duration of the play.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* Some [[First
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Half Life]]'' is probably the most famous, and earliest (released in 1998) example. All the games directly follow one long shot from Gordon's point of view, differing from other games at the time (and still many now) due to lack of traditional [[Cutscene|cut scenes]] or even loading screens (instead simply showing the word "loading" in the center of your view while the next level
▲* Some [[First Person Shooter]] games use a version of this trope appropriate to the medium, usually by removing or limiting direct control over the players movement and weapons, or taking place before the player has access to weapons. The player has control over their viewpoint, and it's most often done as an alternative to an introductory cut scene.
▲* ''[[Half Life]]'' is probably the most famous, and earliest (released in 1998) example. All the games directly follow one long shot from Gordon's point of view, differing from other games at the time (and still many now) due to lack of traditional [[Cutscene|cut scenes]] or even loading screens (instead simply showing the word "loading" in the center of your view while the next level loads -- though this could technically be considered a disguised cut because of how the engine works). The only parts of the series that are less than seamless are when Gordon is knocked unconscious or teleported.
* ''[[Far Cry]] 2'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaONaraCU-c A taxi drive after you arrive in Africa.] It describes the setting, the current goings on, information on the game factions and antagonists.
* ''[[Call of Duty]] 4'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgNUS9XL4eA Has the player in the shoes of overthrown President Al-Fulani], being captured, taken onto a car and driven around, you can see things like a family being killed, armed men breaking into houses, APC's firing on unarmed civilians, a group of your apparent supporters being lined up against a wall and shot, when you arrive, you are taken to a televised/filmed rally, tied to a post, then executed by [[The Dragon|Khaled Al-Asad]].
* ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'''s opening sequence with Batman escorting the Joker into Arkham has a feel much like this.
* The ''[[Dead Space (
** The sequel does this as well: you've never ''not'' looking at Isaac.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* ''[[
▲== Web Original ==
▲* ''[[Echo Chamber (Web Video)|Echo Chamber]]'' has an episode on [[Walk and Talk]] which was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmB1u1C-cSs done in one take], except for [[The Stinger]] after the credits.
* Both of the ''Ryan Vs. Dorkman'' fights open with one of these. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NE5elL30w4 19 seconds] in the first one, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RATMJ8JH1qo 30 seconds] in the second. (To be sure, 20 seconds isn't that impressive... but all the other examples on here are actual films with actual budgets, as opposed to two untrained amateurs playing with sticks.)
** Topped by ''Ryan vs. Brandon 2'', by the same team +1 (Dorkman did cinematography). A 23-second ''[[Orbital Shot]]'' Oner. ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa-Pa5IQLg&t=03m37s Clip starts at said shot], so just rewind to the beginning if you want the whole thing.)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw Daft Hands]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_881424&v=346KT-THOEk&feature=iv Daft Hands]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OoTnsOPjsI&feature=related Daft Hands]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE-jJcv0yxA&feature=related Daft Hands]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYD_-A_X5E Daft Bodies].
* ''[[Know Your Meme]]'' did a [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/one-take whole episode] on this technique, including some of the above.
* The city of Grand Rapids, Michigan made a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI 9-minute lipdub] of Don McLean's "American Pie" that was done all in one take.
* ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' did this with "The Writers Room", a sketch consisting of a single shot over six minutes in length. It was especially challenging as most of the actors had minimal stage experience and weren't used to memorizing all of their lines and cues. "Desert Bus Killed the Internet Star", while shorter, required actors entering and leaving the frame, hiding and passing quickly behind the camera in the middle of a small, furnished room.
* ''[[Mystery Guitar Man]]'' has one called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMDsPoLlv4 'Evolution of Games'] .How it was done is shown [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJVCcW16WqI here].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7TI-AJi2O8 Shorewood Lip Dub] is a 4.5 minute long video ''filmed backwards''. It has to be seen to be believed.
* The entries of ''[[Marble Hornets]]'' vary in length from half a minute to seven minutes, and almost all of them are done in a single shot. It serves both to lend credibility to the premise that it was done hastily by film students on the fly and to make the entries almost unbearably suspenseful.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waAqJ6727Hk Cypress Ranch High School's Anti-Bullying music video] is all one long (and impressive, considering the scale) shot, a fact which was overtly parodied by ''[[South Park]]'' in "Butterballs." An interesting note is that even when one girl [[Fade to Black|blacks out the camera with her hand]], it continues to be a single shot.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron]]'' opens with one of these, following a bald eagle over various natural landmarks in America's Old West. It was one of the first sequences started during production and one of the last to be finished.▼
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* ''[[Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron]]'' opens with one of these, following a bald eagle over various natural landmarks in America's Old West. It was one of the first sequences started during production and one of the last to be finished.
* The final shot of ''[[Fantasia]]'', during the "Ave Maria." A very complicated shot to film, comprising one of the biggest multiplane set ups ever devised, and was finished only hours before the movie's ''premiere''.
** According to one article, the shot had to be done three times. The first time it was discovered that the entire shot had been filmed with the wrong lens on the camera, producing impromptu time lapse footage of the animators working around the edge of the frame. The second time there was an ''earthquake'' during shooting, which shook the planes out of alignment. The shot was eventually completed so close to the wire that the first print of it had to be spliced into the reel in the projection room of the premiere theater.
*** Also, the [[Astronomic Zoom]] that opens the "Rite of Spring" segment, although it consists of separate elements combined through cross-dissolves.
* The simulated [[Epic Tracking Shot]] that opens ''[[The Rescuers]] Down Under'', done using the then-new CAPS program that replaced the traditional multiplane camera.
* In ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', the opening song ends with a long pan out on Quasimodo standing atop the cathedral, which then pans ''down'' to the Paris streets.
* [[Robot Chicken]] has one starring the titular Robot Chicken fighting through the various characters that have appeared in the show in the style of The Protector (which is itself lampshaded).
== Other ==
* In an audio example, the Big Finish ''[[
* A lip-dub is a short film who's only real characteristic is being a oner. When this troper's school did one to celebrate the tenth anniversary, it involved, like the Fight Club example, lots of people running the long way 'round the ''entire'' school, sometimes ''twice'' to be at the right place. It ended up nine and a half minutes long and several people had three appearances.
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