This video discusses the long take in terms of a variety of filmmakers, but focuses on specifically on Spielberg’s tendency to use this specific type of shot in his films and the way he goes about constructing it. The video deconstructs scenes from various Spielberg films, noting the different methods he uses for continuity in his long takes, and compares this to other examples from rival directors.

This source is useful in understanding the motivation behind the long take and the different ways in which it can be created. It also distinguishes between two modern types of film; one that seems to become ‘faster and more chaotic’ in its editing and that of using the long take to ‘better’ other films.

The video affirms the long take as a method of narrative, but does not identify it as a mode of montage however, a seeming trend in much of the current research on the long take. It adds the idea that different directors use different geometry in their execution of the long take, and is useful in that it compares the long take to the montage, but the fact that it does not mention the long take as a montage method is a little strange.