Following the action in film is an aspect many great directors looked at, it is the use of takes over a longer period of time to make the viewer feel as if they're really there and it is happening right in front of them, every action film now has literally hundreds of cuts per scene, which can create a feeling of surrealism.
One clip covers the importance of "Following the action" very well.
This is a great example of how the use of long takes can make the viewer feel as if they're there, the only cut we see in the entire introduction is the one where it goes from outside the window to inside the room.
In-Camera Editing
Today I looked at In-Camera editing, I found it very intriguing and thought I'd share.
In-Camera editing is when a linear story is filmed as so, so for example if you watch a film and the order is straight forward, that is the order it is filmed in, a good example would be almost any film but for the sake of arguement "Ocean's 13"
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A good example of a film without In-Camera editing would be Memento, a film produced by Christopher Nolan, the events appear in a random order and tells the story backwards, it is also not the order the scenes were filmed in, they were edited after filming, hence out-of camera filming.
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In-camera editing was a lot more common before editing software on computers became available, now you can film the end before the start, the middle before the introduction and piece it together whenever due to out of camera editing being very easy to achieve.
