There's a Reason More TV Shows Are Using Long Takes

There's a Reason More TV Shows Are Using Long Takes

Some ambitious shots have become part of cinematic history. Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil begins with a lengthy tracking shot that establishes the film’s setting, characters and conflict. Decades later, Robert Altman opened The Player with a long tracking shot as an homage of sorts to Welles’s film, complete with a reference to it in the dialogue. The new Apple TV+ series The Studio includes a character named in homage to Altman’s film — and woul…