Cinematography - Fight Scene

For the final fight scene between butler and Schmidt, I came up with the idea of doing the whole fight scene in a single continuous dolly shot. The actors will fight along the front entrance of the mansion and will move sideways as they fight. For the shot, I also did some choreography on Sunday for this and we did some trial runs with the actors. We plan to shoot this next week. For the shot I have the dolly along the front entrance of the mansion. And the butler and Schmidt will both be fighting with Katanas. I setup the shot so that they look like they are fighting and their swords are clashing when in reality they are far apart and their swords are far away from one another. The way I do this is to use a long lens and shoot near telephoto, so on camera it looks like their swords are clashing. Then in post we can add sound effects that exaggerates this effect.