Shot-for-shot

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Shot-for-shot (or shot-for-shot adaptation, shot-for-shot representation) is a term used to describe a visual work that is transferred almost completely identical from the original work without much interpretation.

This term has been used widely recently in the film industry, when it produces films that are adapted from a comic/graphic novel origin. Each scene/cut from the movies is identical to the panel in the publication.

Contents 1 Production uses 2 Examples 2.1 From comics/graphic novels to film 2.2 Film to film 2.3 Animation to animation 2.4 Homage 2.5 Parodies 3 References

[edit] Production uses

In the film industry, most screenplays are transferred into a storyboard for visual representation. so that the crew would understand how it should be shot. However some directors have skipped this process and used the comic panels as storyboards (such as Robert Rodriguez)

[edit] Examples

[edit] From comics/graphic novels to film

• Sin City and its film adaptation - most scenes are shot-for-shot
• 300 - director Zack Snyder photocopied the graphic novel and constructed the preceding and succeeding shots.
• The Tintin comic book series was adapted into a television series, with many of the panels being used in the television series for their respective stories.

[edit] Film to film

Some films are remade in an almost identical "frame-to-frame".

• Alfred Hitchcock's black-and-white Psycho was remade by Gus Van Sant into its color version which is nearly a shot for shot remake, also in English, with different actors.
• Michael Haneke remade his own 1997 film Funny Games, which was in the German language, into a 2008 American remake in English, with different actors.
• Luc Besson's 1990 French film Nikita was remade as 1993's English-language Point of No Return by John Badham. Except for the language translation, only minor changes were made, and the two films are largely shot-for-shot identical (particularly action sequences, such as the "laundry chute dive" restaurant escape).

[edit] Animation to animation

• Tops with Pops and Love That Pup

[edit] Homage

Some directors pay tribute/homage to other works by including scenes that are identical.

• The Odessa Steps sequence of The Battleship Potemkin has been emulated in several films, including The Untouchables.
• The 400 Blows has a scene identical to Zéro de conduite as an homage.
• The famous "cropduster chase" scene in North by Northwest has been the subject of numerous homages and parodies.
• The Dreamers contains numerous homages and reconstructions of scenes from films such as Bande à part, Blonde Venus, Freaks, Scarface, Queen Christina, À bout de souffle, Sunset Boulevard, and Mouchette.

[edit] Parodies

Many comedy works that rely heavily on parody use shot-for-shot as a substance of humor.

• Many Simpsons episodes parody other works by using shot-for-shot representation.
  • a scene in "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" is from Requiem for a Dream.
• Weird Al Yankovic parodies music videos of other artists in an almost shot-for-shot.

[edit] References

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