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Why Rear Window Was Shot from Exactly One Position

Explains the technical and narrative logic of confining nearly every shot to Jeff's apartment, and how that constraint was used to build tension rather than limit the film.

wolfcrow · 9 min · Intermediate · CIN · Cinematography · 2018

What you take away

Turn a single fixed camera position into a storytelling constraint rather than treating it as a limitation.

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