videos mistaken for one shot several videos use trickery to hide the seams between a number of long takes this has a long history in film for instance in rope film alfred hitchcock would pan into the black of a man's jacket or the lid of a chest in order to hide reel changes page today technology assists with digital editing techniques hiding the transition with compositing or digital lens flares these can result in a video being identified as a one shot the examples below have been identified as one shot in the past but later revealed to have been assembled from several long takes