nicco miranda

After watching the various examples of long shots in class, I immediately thought of this fight scene starring Tony Jaa. What makes this scene different is that it is very action oriented. The camera follows Jaa's character as he moves up a spiral staircase while fighting a number of thugs along the way.

Since I have been involved with stunts and fight choreography, I'm aware of how incredibly difficult it can be to get the right shots and how time consuming it can be to learn the choreography. To be able to choreograph a 4 minute long fight that involves this much movement and this many stuntmen must have taken a significant amount of planning. Making sure that every fight was believable, every fall was safe, and none of the mats or film gear was in the shot absolutely astonishes me, and definitely makes this a very memorable scene.