Quote Originally Posted by Shiny View Post
I just saw the movie Elephant, yesterday and I thought the shots the director used were pretty unique in it's own right. Also, the fact that he hired a cast of non-actors and told them to improv most of the scenes was very unique.

Jaws also gets a noteable mention, because of the fact that it created a new type of shot all on it's on. Today, many directors try to copy that "Jaw effect" shot that is seen in the movie.
I saw Elephant a few weeks ago. It has a slight documentary feel aside from using that technique of splicing together the same scenes from different perspectives at different points in the movie).

For some reason I really like the scene where the kid is walking across campus; it's a single shot with the famous first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata playing from start to finish on the soundtrack- something kind of ghostly and foreboding about it.