Shooting backwards while actors walk toward camera

[Peter Damo]

Sorry, when Edward Norton opens the door it opens outwards. Usually front doors (around these parts anyway) open inwards.

[Greg Boston]

Originally Posted by Charles Papert

Thanks Don, but for me, that one's been trumped (and admirably so) in the years that followed. Here's a great one from "Flightplan". My jaw dropped the first time I saw this shot. Flawless.

Charles, I just watched that shot a couple times. It looked like the pan at stairs end might have designed to disguise the stairs to floor transition. Clever, if true!

-gb-

[Charles Papert]

Sure, or it just worked out that way. Either way he really stuck the landing!