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{{quote|"Five-oh! Everybody, ''[[West Wing]]''!"<br />
"[[Aaron Sorkin|West Wing]]?"<br />
"[[Signature Style|Walk fast, talk fast]]."|''[[
Having the characters walk from one end to the other of a large, contiguous set while talking to each other, while a [[Steadicam]] operator walks backwards in front of them, allowing for a continuous, moving, [[Medium Two-Shot]]. Can take ''a lot'' of takes to get right, but can give us some impressive examples of [[The Oner]]. However, they never seem to watch where they're going.
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Also known as a pedeconference (by analogy to teleconference), especially on [[Television Without Pity]].
According to a ''[[
This shooting technique was popularized by [[Aaron Sorkin]], who used it first on ''[[
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== Film ==
* Parodied by [[
* Parodied and lampshaded in ''[[Johnny Dangerously]]'' when Johnny and Lil go on a walk... and talk. After a very long time, they stop, look around and realize they must have left the city hours ago and are now out in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere.
{{quote| '''Johnny:''' "Where the hell ''are'' we?"}}
* Used in the film ''[[Brazil (
* ''[[Ghostbusters]] 2'' combines it with [[Suit-Up of Destiny]] on route to fight Vigo in at the New York Museum of Fine Art.
* Used extensively in [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s ''[[Hamlet]]''. In the director's commentary, they claim [[The West Wing]] was ripping them off.
* The 1997 film ''The Peacemaker'' anticipated ''[[The West Wing]]'' by having walk and talks ''in the White House''. Director Mimi Leder was a former producer and director for ''ER'', and steadicam operator Guy Bee had also worked on ''ER''.
* ''[[
* Used in ''Something the Lord Made'', a biopic about African-American medical pioneer Vivien Thomas, to help establish the Jim Crow-era setting. An early scene has Thomas and his friend, also black, walking and talking along a footpath -- but they have to keep pausing the conversation and stepping off the footpath to let white folks past.
* Used in the film ''[[Night
* Happens quite a bit in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels, except since the pace is more sedate, it dampens the energy of the scene.
== Live-Action TV ==
* This is called the "Walk and Talk" on ''[[
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' is not above [[Lampshade Hanging|hanging a lampshade]] on its use of the device, though: after a particularly long [[Walk and Talk]], Josh and Sam once realize that neither of them had any idea where they had been going, and each thought he was following the other. "Let's not tell anyone about this," Josh concludes. Also Lampshaded during a flashback episode to their first days in the White House when Sam asks Josh, "Do you mind if I talk to you while we walk?" and Josh says that they'll have to get use to having meetings in the hallway (due to not being able to read the White House maps).
** When Will Bailey first arrives at the White House he comments to Josh that "...you get a pretty good aerobic workout talking to someone in this building." Josh responds that he's heard the jokes.
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* ''ER'' also uses the Walk and Talk extensively. Thomas Del Ruth, director of photography for the pilot episode of ER, went on to be cinematographer on the pilot of ''[[The West Wing]]'' too.
* Factors heavily into ''[[Law and Order]]'', and to a lesser extent, its spinoffs. An ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch joked that the first rule for an extra on that show was "never stop moving."
* This method also appears often on ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', and has been [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] on at least two occasions, one of which Wilson points out they ended up back where they started, and another where House explains to a camera crew filming his team trying to diagnose the patient of the week that their walking around creates the illusion of the plot moving forward.
* ''[[30 Rock
** They parodied it once, too.
{{quote| '''Liz''': Can you walk and talk?<br />
'''Kenneth''': Usually, but now you've got me thinking about it. *walks awkwardly during the rest of the scene* }}
** Openly parodied when [[Aaron Sorkin]] appeared as himself, advising Liz as she faced redundancy. The scene included an overt jab at ''Studio 60''.
* Countless times on ''[[Stargate SG
* Used and played with in ''[[
* Parodied on ''The Armstrong And Miller Show''. One recurring sketch has a [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] character marching down a corridor while his subordinates dash up to him with obviously nonsensical information or bits of interesting trivia. [[Better Than It Sounds]].
* Any show that takes place inside a school, if they have the budget for a long enough hallway
** Which is completely unrealistic, especially in high schools where people either walk like they're a lame, deaf, and blind or they travel in packs, blocking the hallways from wall to wall. Not to mention having to avoid groups of ''other'' people trying to walk and talk...
* From ''[[Star Trek:
** What they did have though (including the later series) was the "stand and talk" variation where the characters would board a turbolift that would conveniently take exactly as long to reach its destination as it took for the conversation to end. In certain episodes of the original series, it's laughable how long the turbolift can take to get from the bridge to a deck that is only 3-4 stories down in the ship.
* Happened regularly in ''[[The West Wing]]'s'' [[Evil Twin|Evil British Twin]], ''[[The Thick of It]]''.
* Done to death (heh heh) in nearly every episode of ''[[
* Done frequently on ''[[
* Canada knows this trope via its usage in Rick Mercer's Rants from ''[[This Hour Has 22 Minutes]]'' and ''[[The Rick Mercer Report]]''. Most of the time it was only Mercer himself in the shot, giving the impression that the audience was the second person.
* Aaron Sorkin's first use of it was pretty much [[Once Per Episode]] of ''[[
== Web Original ==
* The [[TV Tropes]] original webseries ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* Parodied in ''[[
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