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Rope is the title of a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, released in 1948. The story involves two men who commits a murder to see how it feels; it was inspired by the real-life murder of a young boy in 1924 by two college students named Leopold and Loeb. Hitchcock filmed each scene in ten-minute segments (the length of a reel of film at the time), each segment continuously panning from character to character in real time. Each ten-minute segment ends by panning against or zooming into an object (a man's jacket, or the back of a piece of furniture, for example) or by having an actor move in front of the camera, blocking the entire screen; each scene after that starts a static shot of that same object. (This technique has been used frequently since to "hide" edits, for instance in the Eagle-Eye Cherry music video "Save Tonight," and also in Erin Brockovich: Julia Robert appears to get into a car, drive down the street, and get hit by another car, but in fact the camera lingers behind on the road after she leaves, and at that point Steven Soderbergh cuts). |
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Rope is the title of a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, released in 1948. The story involves two men who commits a murder to see how it feels; it was inspired by the real-life murder of a young boy in 1924 by two college students named Leopold and Loeb. Hitchcock filmed each scene in ten-minute segments (the length of a reel of film at the time), each segment continuously panning from character to character in real time. Each ten-minute segment ends by panning against or zooming into an object (a man's jacket, or the back of a piece of furniture, for example) or by having an actor move in front of the camera, blocking the entire screen; each scene after that starts a static shot of that same object. (This technique has been used frequently since to "hide" edits, for instance in the Eagle-Eye Cherry music video "Save Tonight," and also in Erin Brockovich: Julia Roberts appears to get into a car, drive down the street, and get hit by another car, but in fact the camera lingers behind on the road after she leaves, and at that point Steven Soderbergh cuts). |
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