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Walter Murch - Francis Ford Coppola's style of shooting (49/320)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Entertainment

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Walter Scott Murch (b. 1943) is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of film editing, as well as one of the few film editors equally active in both picture and sound. [Listener: Christopher Sykes; date recorded: 2016]
 
TRANSCRIPT: The shooting of the wedding in 'The Godfather' participated in an approach that Francis took both in 'The Godfather' and in '[The] Conversation', and in 'Apocalypse Now'. Which is: when confronted with a large event like the wedding, or like the recording of the conversation in that film, or the Valkyrie's battle, what Francis would do would be to stage the event as something completely independent of it being filmed. So we're just going to have a wedding, and everyone has a role to play in the wedding, everyone has their identity, and here we go. And music is played, and food is eaten, and things happen, and people come and go. And it is captured on multiple cameras as if it's a documentary. So all of those scenes were shot as if they were documentary. At the end of one take, the cameras are moved to a slightly different position, and then another scene is done, another version of the wedding has happened. The result is, of course, you generate a lot of film, but the advantage is that it seems like something that is really happening, rather than something that is being staged for the purposes of the camera. Inevitably, once the main shooting is over, then a few extra shots are done that make specific points, and those are inserted at the appropriate place in the scene. But it has a reality to it that is, well, you can see how effective it is from looking at those scenes in the films.

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