Following the Action!

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.