Editing Long take (section)

== Sequence shot ==
[[File:CH.SZ.Stoos Fronalpstock Sequence Rescue-Helicopter REGA 16K 16x9-R.jpg|thumb|Example of a sequence shot that includes the same helicopter multiple times]]
A sequence shot is a shot, a long take, that includes a full narrative sequence containing the full scene in its duration, meaning different locations or different time periods. The term is usually used to refer to shots that constitute an entire scene. Such a shot may involve sophisticated camera movement. It is sometimes called by the French term ''plan-séquence''. The use of the sequence shot allows for realistic or dramatically significant background and middle ground activity. Actors range about the set transacting their business while the camera shifts focus from one plane of depth to another and back again. Significant off-frame action is often followed with a moving camera, characteristically through a series of pans within a single continuous shot.

An example of this is the "Copacabana shot" featured in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[Goodfellas]]'' (1990), in which Henry Hill ([[Ray Liotta]]) takes his girlfriend to a nightclub passing through the kitchen.<ref>[http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2018/the-10-most-stunning-long-takes-in-movie-history/ The 10 Most Stunning Long Takes in Movie History — Taste of Cinema]</ref>

[[Robert Altman]]'s [[The Player (1992 film)|''The Player'']] (1992) opens with an elaborately choreographed eight-minute shot that follows multiple characters in multiple locations, both inside and outside.<ref>[http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2018/the-10-most-stunning-long-takes-in-movie-history/2 The 10 Most Stunning Long Takes in Movie History — Taste of Cinema]</ref> Among the 17 scenes that comprise the shot, one character refers to the four-minute shot that opens [[Orson Welles]]’ ''[[Touch of Evil]]'' (1958).<ref>[http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/the-15-greatest-opening-long-takes/2/ The 15 Greatest Opening Long Takes in Cinema History — Page 2 — Taste of Cinema]</ref>

[[Dardenne brothers|Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne]]'s ''[[Rosetta (film)|Rosetta]]'' (1999) ends with a five-minute continuous shot.<ref name="artforum">{{Cite magazine |last=Quandt |first=James |authorlink=James Quandt |date=October 2014 |title=Too Good to be True: The Films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/201408/too-good-to-be-true-the-films-of-jean-pierre-and-luc-dardenne-48221 |magazine=[[Artforum]]}}</ref> The Dardenne brothers also shot long sequences for ''[[Two Days, One Night]]'' (2014), some of them consisting of ten minutes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chai |first=Barbara |date=24 December 2014 |title=Marion Cotillard on 'Two Days, One Night': 'I Came Close to a State of Depression Once' |url=https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/BL-SEB-85694 |website=[[The Wall Street Journal]]}}</ref>