영화 <1917>의 롱테이크 기법 분석-컨티뉴어스 쇼트와 시점을 중심으로 -

Analysis on Long-Take Technique of a Film <1917>-Focusing on Continuous Shot and POV -

As a war film that has been recently filmed by American director Sam Mendes, the film <1917> with the background in the First World War, is solemnly showing the value of responsibility and sacrifice of individuals in the organizational system of military by realistically describing the vivid war situation of the First World War which was brutal and miserable. For expressing the images, Sam Mendes utilized the ‘Long-Take’ technique emphasizing the reality and objectivity, rather than the montage technique delivering the contents and meanings through the editing of shots. Especially, he completed this film with ‘one continuous shot’ by technically connecting several long-takes, instead of ‘one scene, one take’ that would complete a whole film with a single take. As the effects of ‘one continuous shot’, it was evaluated as a film that has opened a new horizon for shooting techniques and expression method of directing, which also contributed to getting out of the generalized stereotypes of war films. Through this creative long-take technique, the film <1917> rediscovered the genre characteristics of war films that had not be created or experimented by anybody, and also deeply considered the psychology and mise-en-scene of each individual soldier, and the realistic description of war. Also, the application of ‘point of view’ connected to the movement of camera added the depth to the film by influencing the characters’ emotion and the tone and manner of the whole film. The objective of this thesis was to create the aesthetic value inherent in long-take, and also to seek for the possibility of development of long-take technique in the future, based on the in-depth analysis on the long-take technique applied to the film <1917>.