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Shot-for-shot

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Shot-for-shot (or shot-for-shot adaptation, shot-for-shot remake) is a way to describe a visual work based on an existing work that is transferred almost completely identically from the original work without much interpretation.

Production uses

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In the film industry, most screenplays are adapted into a storyboard by the director and/or storyboard artists to visually represent the director's vision for each shot, so that the crew can understand what is being aimed for.

Examples

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From comics to film

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  • Sin City - Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller filmed most scenes shot-for-shot from Miller's graphic novels.
  • 300 - Director Zack Snyder photocopied the graphic novel and constructed the preceding and succeeding shots.
  • Watchmen - Zack Snyder again used the graphic novel as his main storyboard, featuring several shots that are almost identical to their literary counterparts.

From comics to television

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  • The Adventures of Tintin comics series was adapted into The Adventures of Tintin television series, often with many of the panels from the original comic transposed directly to the television screen.
  • The Marvel Super Heroes animated series used extremely limited animation produced by xerography, consisting of photocopied images taken directly from the comics and manipulated to minimize the need for animation production.
  • The Maxx - Sam Keith and William Messner-Loebs' Image Comics series was adapted in an animated television series by Rough Draft Studios and MTV in 1995. Richard Mathes wrote of it, "The cartoon version of The Maxx follows the comics' art almost line-for-line. Instead of attempting to cartoon-ify the dark tone of the comic books, the producers made the decision to use animation that is nearly identical to the panels within the Image comics. In addition, the animators did as little animating as possible. They don’t insert motion just to show that they can; instead, they hold on to shots, using movement only when absolutely necessary."[1]

Many Japanese anime series that are based on a preceding manga series strive to adapt the story without many changes. One example of this is Monster, which besides adding animation, music and shuffling around some scenes, is a perfect recreation of the source material. If the anime and manga are being produced concurrently, however, and should the anime overtake the release of new source material, the producers might then be forced to create their own new ending to the story, go on hiatus, or create a "filler arc" with an original story arc that non-canonically continues the story until more material has been created.

Film to film

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Some films are remade in an almost identical "frame-to-frame" fashion.

In the early days of sound film, it was common for Hollywood studios to produce foreign language versions of their films using the same sets and costumes but a different set of actors as the original. Although a different director would be brought in for the foreign-language version, they would have access to the daily footage from the English language production and would often use the same shots and camera setups. Often the result would be similar to a 'shot-to-shot' remake, although in some notable examples (such as Dracula (1931 Spanish-language film)), the alternate director exercised more creative freedom.

Animation to animation

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Homage

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Some directors pay tribute/homage to other works by including scenes that are identical.

Television to television

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Parodies

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Many comedy works that rely heavily on parody use shot-for-shot as a substance of humor.

References

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  1. ^ Mathes, Richard (2007-05-29). "The Maxx -- The Only Thing MTV Never Screwed Up". Tubewad. Archived from the original on 2008-01-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20080123222154/http://www.tubewad.com/featured-the-maxx-the-only-thing-mtv-never-screwed-up-1664-p.html.
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  4. ^ McCall, Douglas L. (31 October 2005). Film Cartoons: A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts. McFarland. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-7864-2450-4.
  5. ^ Friedwald, Will; Beck, Jerry (1981). The Warner Brothers Cartoons. Scarecrow Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-8108-1396-0.
  6. ^ Barbera, Joseph (1994). My Life in "Toons": From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing. pp. 72–73. ISBN 978-1-57036-042-8.
  7. ^ Heisler, Yoni (1 December 2018). "200 'Shrek' fans created a spectacular shot-for-shot remake of the original film". Boy Genius Report. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  8. ^ Ross, Dalton (22 October 2017). "The Walking Dead director reveals season premiere Easter eggs". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  9. ^ Holman, Jordyn (3 July 2014). "Iranian Version of 'Modern Family' Unauthorized By 20th Century Fox TV". Variety. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)()
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  11. ^ Sampson, Mike (25 November 2013). "Seth Rogen and James Franco's Shot-for-Shot Recreation of Kanye West's "Bound 2" Video". ScreenCrush. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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