How to fake a LONG TAKE with hidden cuts! | 4 editing tricks
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Steve Ramsden here with DIY Moviemaking and this week I’m going to show to you four tricks to make continuous action look like one long take - by using hidden “invisible” cuts like in 1917, Birdman, Children of Men, Spectre, the Kingsman church fight and Alfred Hitchcock's Rope.
I am obsessed with long takes in movies - they just immerse the viewer and can be a great way to keep your audience glued to action that’s supposedly unfolding in real time. But long takes are very difficult and expensive to get right. So it’s not surprising that many filmmakers have used various tricks to join several shorter takes together using hidden cuts, to create the illusion of seamlessness. I just find these kinds of shots fascinating and I’ve even tried several of my own fake-long-take experiments over the years. So I’ve come up with this handy list of 4 tricks you can try to invisibly join your shots together.
I’m always trying to add production value by doing a lot with a little, so if you want to see lots more fun DIY Moviemaking tips and tricks like this, then of course hit that subscribe button.
Invisible cuts, also know as ‘hidden cuts’ have been growing in popularity in recent years, in fact even some entire films like 1917 and Birdman have been based on using this as their central gimmick. And these films and others like them use the same surprisingly simple techniques I’m going to share today. These aren’t just decisions being made when editing, these are decisions you would make before and when you shoot so that you get the right shots on the day. And some of them are surprisingly cheap. So just like I teach in my course DIY Moviemaking for which the link is below, you don’t always need a lot of money to get some creative shots, you just need to spend a bit more time planning. So, here’s 4 tricks you can try for seamless cuts:
Trick number 1 is the easiest, and that is to obscure the frame with a colour match. This is a method of hiding a join by ending your first shot and starting your second shot on the same solid colour, usually black. This is the very basic method that Alfred Hitchcock used to join a lot of his shots together in his 1948 film Rope. The camera usually pushes in on a dark object, like the back of someone’s suit or a piece of furniture, until the lens is covered. Then the shot cuts, and the camera moves back out into the next take. To try this method yourself you don’t need any fancy editing at all, because the join can just be a straight cut that no-one notices. However you could put in a quick cross-fade if you wanted to.
Trick number 2 is to use what is called a whip pan. A pan just means swinging the camera to look left or right, and a whip pan just means doing this quickly, so that the image becomes blurred. This can be another great moment to hide a cut. You can see this method used a lot in Birdman, especially when characters are walking around corners or a quick pan shows us what a character is seeing. All you have to do on the day is film the end of the first shot and the start of the second shot with the same fast whip pan in a similar direction, and these should join together pretty easily.
Trick number 3 for an invisible cut is to use a foreground object to ‘wipe’ across the frame, sometimes known as a ‘frame-block transition’. This is usually an object that passes between the camera and the character and moving the join with the object. To do this, draw a simple ‘mask’ down the edge of whatever object is moving past the camera. Then you can add keyframes to move this mask in time with the object, and this will then reveal your second shot underneath.
Trick number 4 is really less of a single cut and more of a whole new ‘fake’ shot, which gets built to bridge the gap between the two real shots.This will often be used for situations where there would have just been no way to perfectly line the two shots up, or it would be an impossibly tricky shot to get. These ‘fake’ shots are often composited out of several parts from several real shots, plus sometimes more elaborate things like CGI.
So if you use any of these tricks you should end up with a fun result where you can shoot and edit using invisible cuts in your next film project!
#filmmaking #longtakes #hiddencuts
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:49 - Trick 1: Obscure Frame
03:17 - Trick 2: Whip Pan
04:48 - Trick 3: Foreground Object
06:49 - Trick 4: Build a new 'fake' shot - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Amazing tutorial! thanks. I have used many of your tricks in my previous films.
Great to hear!
The series, The Chosen, did a thirteen minute shot without cuts to open episode 203. It was really cool as you saw the sun going down naturally during the course of it.
Please Steve upload videos back to back like every 2 days
Great job with this tutorial! Love the examples you chose to illustrate your tips; some of them (ex: Kingsman) were ones I never would have considered.
So glad to see your channel gaining a bigger following!!
Brotha! This was epic! Great job 🤘🏻
I always watch your videos when I'm in need of tips, but I also just love to sit back and watch the videos considering they're also just entertaining on their own.
Glad you like them!
Awesome video....... amazed by how simple these transitions are..... thank you 🙏🙏🙏
I love that this is basically an in camera effect
100%!
I am working on a large project and your video helped me in a great way. THANK YOU!
Glad it helped!
Your explanation is very clean and clear Thx
super informative! nice work
What an extraordinary tutorial! Incredible!
Thank you!
Like always: AWESOME. Thank you for these teaching efforts ! It's one of the most inspiring and most interesting youtube content I ever watched.
Many thanks!
Would you please make video on green screen dummy to convert any creature for animal 🐾like dinosaurs films 🦖🦕
Thank you so much! I'm working on a long stopmotion right now, and I have used the whip pan effect several times but needed more ideas. This video is exactly what I need!
Glad I could help!
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Steve, I just got my first payment because of your amazing videos/tutorials that taught me A LOT (more than enough) for working on a project that paid me.
I'm so thankful!!!!
This really helped thanks a lot!
This was great, thanks. Esp the jumping out of the car scene. Awesome.
Some of these are pretty dope!
Great video. Sergio Leone was one of my favorite directors and, in my opinion, and I love his long takes
Just found your channel. Awesome work
Amazing as always. Really enjoyed your videos
Many thanks, glad to hear!
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Thanks for such videos that help beginner like me
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No problem 👍
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Great job. Great narration.
Thank you kindly!
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Glad you enjoyed it!
Great Tips Steve, Thanks
Many thanks!
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Beautifully explained 😍👌
Glad you liked it
Thanks mate
Really interesting, thanks for sharing 😊🌸
I was always wondering about 1917 movie scenes 🌸🌸
Glad it was interesting!
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I thought maybe with you as help I can do much than what I have achieved from your tutorials
Hello, I subscribe immediately. I am French and thank you for all your work which gives excellent advice. it's wonderful, I make very modest videos, almost without equipment and I love to solicit the imagination. But thanks to your technique, there is a way to work well and have a lot of fun. TYOU!!
Welcome!
Really cool tips
Thank you
Great vid, excellent tips
Thanks! 👍
You are a smart person. I will apply some tricks to my channel
"...these supposedly 'hidden' cuts in 'Rope' appear very obvious today..."
Their very obviousness illustrates the technique better than the seamless ones do, because the student can see exactly how the effect is accomplished.
A nicely obvious frameblock transition can be seen during Henry Hull's transformation in "Werewolf of London," as he walks behind a series of pillars, revealing a new layer of makeup each time he emerges on the other side.
God bless you for this teachings
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Hello, I just want to tell you that your videos are amazing and I love this channel, please be more active, I enjoy when you publish, 😃
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More to come!
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Nice!
TNice tutorials was easy to follow.
I use these in my parkour videos
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I love your videos
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Well done buddy. Remember I am still waiting for Mr. Nobody mirror scene replicate and explained. Thanks in advance.
cool!
Secret reviewed.. Thanks Steve! Also please show us how to make a lion chase on green screen for high budget..
To me, you seem to be the next leader of VFX! Great work Bro! What part of the world are u based?
Thanks, I'm based in the UK
the most visible invisible transition
Good 👍
Have you watched Scott Adkins' movie One Shot? The whole movie is done in one take. Most likely they've used this method but it's so impressive and probably the first action movie to do that.
Nice.
Thank you!
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What app do i edit with pls
What a genius Steve!
Steve, what do you think of "DaVince Resolve 18", they are advertising that it is "After Effects and Premier" together and easier to use, is it true or just advertising?
I haven't yet tried it myself so can't really comment!
Agreed
Are you using Producer edition?? What do y'all recomnd if I want to make s but not record my voice or tutorial?
steve do you think that Adobe after effects is good for a wizard movie
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Hello, I like your tutorial very much. For me, it is more powerful than AK. Unfortunately, I can't afford the shooting equipment, so I hope your video tutorial can provide material practice, thank you
for vfx which software are you used?
You missed the open door at the jumping car clip 😶
I always called a "whip-pan" a "spin-cut" because they used to spin the camera around in old 1930's American westerns, it was obvious but really meant to show a quick passage of time rather than cover anything up.
Yes I remember that too!
Hello, how can I change the dentition of a person in a video? Is it harder to change not the face but inside the mouth? If you care to help, it would be so useful. Thank you in advance.
There is just one film without any hidden cuts:
Victoria
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Is there any free program that can do similar things?
I was surprised how understandable tNice tutorials tutorial is, thanks!
Yes sort of but I reccond setupxx
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You are better than me ! Thanks...!
Practice makes perfect!
You should work at the Hollywood industry
Where is this from 07:02 and great video btw👍🏻
That's from "Birdman"
Hello it’s been a while you made a video we miss you
Thanks, it's a very busy time for me currently 😅
@@SteveRamsdenTH-cam cool, all the best and come back soon
You nice.
1 & 2 is very easy, which I applied in my films and till today nobody noticed that.
the old tricks are the best!
Hello sir please video editing app Tutorial
0:26 what name of the movie or the serie ?? 😉
Hi, where is the link for the after effects course?
You'll find it at the bottom of this page: www.diymoviemaking.com/main-sales-page
@@SteveRamsdenTH-cam , thanks! I want to do both courses, but Im from Brazil so the prices in USD are plus 5.33 times here, so Ill save money, but Ill do. Here we can pay a lot of thing for months like 12 months in the Visa, but Ill safe. Tanks! Your work is awesome!
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Can you make a tutorial of how to put cartoons in the real world please
Electric!
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i did car softeffects with a can of light beer
ordinary film watcher here... long takes can lend great effect if used judiciously, but just come off as gimmicky if overdone (to me).. i watched Birdman not knowing it was supposed to be 'one long take', but after a point it just became tiring to watch, & by the end of the movie, I was less interested in the movie than I was in picking out where the cuts were
I find I do that as well!
The best REAL One Shot movie of all time: "VICTORIA" (2015).