the French term plan-séquence. The use of the sequence shot allows for realistic or dramatically significant background and middle ground activity. Actors range about the set transacting their business while the camera shifts focus from one plane of depth to another and back again. Significant off-frame action is often followed with a moving camera, characteristically through a series of pans within a single continuous shot. An example of this is the "Copacabana shot" featured in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990), in which Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) takes his girlfriend to a nightclub passing through the kitchen. Robert Altman's The Player (1992) opens with an elaborately choreographed ten-minute shot that follows multiple characters in multiple locations, both inside and outside. Among the 17 scenes that comprise the shot, one character refers to the four-minute shot that opens Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil (1958). Directors known for long takes Chantal Akerman Robert Altman Paul Thomas Anderson Wes Anderson Theo Angelopoulos Michelangelo Antonioni John Asher Scott Barley Kathryn Bigelow Juan José Campanella John Cassavetes Damien Chazelle Alfonso Cuarón Brian De Palma Carl Theodor Dreyer Bruno Dumont David Fincher Luis García Berlanga Bi Gan Jean-Luc Godard Michael Haneke Alfred Hitchcock Hou Hsiao-hsien Miklós Jancsó Bong Joon-ho Mikhail Kalatozov Stanley Kubrick David Lean Sergio Leone Steve McQueen Sam Mendes Tsai Ming-liang Kenji Mizoguchi Max Ophüls Ruben Östlund Yasujirō Ozu Otto Preminger Jean Renoir Jacques Rivette Francesco Rosi Martin Scorsese M. Night Shyamalan Alexander Sokurov Rodrigo Sorogoyen Steven Spielberg Andrei Tarkovsky Béla Tarr Johnnie To Rob Tregenza Apichatpong Weerasethakul Orson Welles Joss Whedon Joe Wright Jia Zhangke Continuous-shot full feature films A "one-shot feature film" (also called "continuous-shot feature film") is a full-length movie filmed in one long take by a single camera, or manufactured to give the impression that it was. Given the extreme difficulty of the exercise and the technical requirements for a long lasting continuous shot, such full feature films have only been possible since the advent of digital movie cameras. See also One-shot film One shot (music video) Slow cutting Slow cinema Digital cinematography Digital cinema List of films shot in digital Art film References Footnotes References Bibliography A History of Narrative Film by David Cook () External links Cinemetrics – a statistical analysis of shot length Top 15 Long Takes at List Universe 25 Great Long Takes at Daily Film Dose Essay on the history and use of long takes in music