Shot-for-shot
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Shot-for-shot (or shot-for-shot remake) is a term used to describe a visual work that is transferred almost completely identical from the original work without much interpretations.
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.
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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)
Examples
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.
Film to film
Some films are remade in an almost identical "frame-to-frame".
- Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its remake are almost completely identical.
- Funny Games (2008 film) is a shot-for-shot remake of Funny Games (1997 film)
Animation to animation
Homage
Some directors pay tribute/homage to other works by including scenes that are identical.
- The Untouchables has a scene that is identical to The Odessa Steps sequence of The Battleship Potemkin.
- The 400 Blows has a scene identical to Zéro de conduite as a homage.
Parodies
Many comedy works that relies heavily on parody uses 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.
