Explain why director Martin Scorsese often complicates his shooting schedule by using traveling shots – as he does in the film Gangs of New York – instead of simply cutting from one shot to the next

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Even though editing to separate shots is usually faster, easier, and cheaper, in some cases a director wants to connect a series of images to suggest a subtle process of association.
2. For example, in one scene in this period film set during the American Civil War era, we see the two main characters, played by Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio, conducting business at the waterfront.
3. In one continuous shot, the camera pans and we see Irish immigrants disembarking from a ship, at which point they’re signed up to go into battle and are then rerouted to a nearby troop ship, where the ship’s cargo is also being loaded: coffins.
4. The camera’s movement is making a political statement by directly connecting the immigrants with the coffins.