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“Jarhead”!
The boat sequence in “Jaws”, the running around the submarine shots in “Das Boot”… Most of “Man of Steel” for some reason is handheld.
“Chinatown” has some good use of handheld (John Alonzo was good at that technique.)
Thanks David. I really need to watch fully hand held shot movies. Not partially one scene or some particular scenes.
Why? What difference does it make? If you want to learn good handheld staging and operating, why does it matter if only 50% of the movie was handheld versus 80% or 90% or 100%?
I’ve the impression that besides looking at good examples of something , a good way to be on the right track is looking at bad examples of that, not only about handheld movies, i mean in general in life. Find handheld scenes that don’t work and find where the problems are.
A movie I watched a couple of days ago – a movie with famous actors in its cast, so not some kind of indie production made by unexperienced beginners – was almost entirely handheld (I suspect to create some kind of realistic effect and immersive effect on the audience), but it was so horribly shot that it was both a painful experience but also an useful one: as long as i will do the complete opposite of whatever they did i could obtain a decent work even with my very limited knowledge.
from the top of my head:
The Wrestler
Black Swan
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Pusher
District 9
Why? What difference does it make? good question. I am learning why particular context works well when they go hand held choice. We can’t choose hand held for all contexts. In my opinion iits works well for certain story’s. A rhythm and pacing little different from partial portions shot movies then fully hand held shot movies. The over all flow vary. That’s what I like to watch fully hand held shot movies. For instance ‘Happening’ movie.
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