scenes consisting of one shot - 2026 ACF Nationals

Packet 8: Tossup 12

Description acceptable. In a scene of this type, the vampiric Mr. Luo (10[1])sings karaoke as his employees rough up “Apollo.” (10[1])In a film titled for this type of scene, the director’s daughter Mao films from on top of a human pyramid. A scene of this type represents the sense of touch in the 2025 film Resurrection. A found footage zombie film (10[1])by Shin’ichirō Ueda is titled [this] Of the Dead. (10[2])A drone carries the camera out of a pool hall in a dream scene of this type from Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. (10[2])Tony Leung reveals that he shot a cop (10[1])while in a hospital elevator in a sequence of this type from John Woo’s (-5[1])Hard Boiled. (10[1])A man in a hallway beats up dozens of (-5[2])henchmen (10[1])with a hammer (10[1])in an action sequence of this type (10[2])from Oldboy. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, what filmmaking technique appears (-5[1])to be used for the entirety of the films 1917, Birdman, and Rope? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: scenes consisting of one shot [or sequence shot or single shot or continuous shot; accept take in place of “shot”; accept long shot or long take or oner; accept One Cut of the Dead; accept any reasonable description of a scene filmed without edits or with no cuts; prompt on tracking shot, trucking shot, dolly shot, Steadicam, or 3D by asking “what else is notable about that shot?”; prompt on filmed live by asking “what other property of that scene is the film titled for?”]

<Editors, Other Fine Arts> | H. Prelims 8 - Stanford A + Georgia Tech C + Columbia A + Columbia B

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Alvin Guo	Chicago A	WashU	11	10
Vivian Malouf	UC Berkeley A	Virginia	19	10
Mattias Ehatamm	Maryland A	NYU B	60	10
Ben Wismath	Toronto B	Northwestern A	69	10
Ani Perumalla	Penn State	Virginia Tech	69	10
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt	Northwestern B	94	10
Ariel Faeder	Pittsburgh	MIT	94	10
Jaskaran Singh	UCLA	Maryland B	102	10
Evan Gniadek	Purdue	Minnesota	116	-5
Anuttam Ramji	UC Berkeley B	Brown	118	10
Cole Hartung	Georgetown	Swarthmore	127	-5
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Waterloo	127	-5
Alan Zhang	British Columbia	Cambridge	128	10
Jeffrey Xu	Georgia Tech B	Toronto A	131	10
Tianyu Xu	Georgia Tech A	Texas	138	10
Tiffany Zhou	Ohio State	Harvard	138	10
Joshua Koch	Michigan	Bruin	140	10
Jim Fan	North Carolina	Rutgers	140	10
Yash Mandavia	Illinois A	Stanford B	140	-5
Jisoo Park	Illinois B	Chicago B	147	-5
Jared He	Waterloo	Indiana	160	10
Sam Konkel	Chicago B	Illinois B	161	10
Foster Hughes	Minnesota	Purdue	161	10
Denis Liu	Stanford B	Illinois A	161	10
Owen Steele	Swarthmore	Georgetown	161	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
Main Site	2026-04-17	✓	20	100%	25%	112.75