Video Essay Explores The Sustained Two-Shot in Filmmaking

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Here’s a wonderful filmmaking video essay from the YouTube channel Every Frame a Painting, and this one focuses on the sustained Two-Shot. For those of you who are aspiring filmmakers, there are some things to be learned here.

The video came with the following note: “What do you do when you’ve got two actors, a bunch of dialogue, and only enough time to get one camera angle? Consider one of the oldest tools in the filmmaking toolbox: the sustained two-shot.”

This filmmaking essay channel is launching a limited series that will explore the history, strengths, and weaknesses of the sustained two-shot, which is a film perspective where two characters stay in a single scene for a long time.

Enjoy the video!

Joey Paur Co-Founder / Editor of GeekTyrant.com, and if you haven't noticed I write… a lot. Movies are my passion and I live and breathe all things geek. This site is part of my life's work, it's a part of me. I love what I do, and I enjoy sharing everything I can with you when it comes to movies and geekery. In my spare time I travel to the netherworlds to battle demons. @JoeyPaur | joeypaur@geektyrant.com

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