{"id":1336,"date":"2025-05-30T16:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2025-05-30T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:21:20","slug":"shot-of-the-month-sequence-2-shot-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/feature\/shot-of-the-month-sequence-2-shot-32","title":{"rendered":"Shot of the month: Sequence 2 shot 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right, let\u2019s take a break from mechs to study this deceptively simple shot of the Ottoman\u2019s son chasing a beetle. The boy\u2019s stumble wasn\u2019t in the script\u2014animator Kyle Torres felt it was worth adding, and we ended up extending the length of the shot just to accommodate it. But what makes that stumble the right choice for the scene is the way it connects to the film\u2019s themes: the ease with which the boy shrugs off his fall contrasts with his father\u2019s spiraling anxiety over his upcoming tournament match, punctuating the imagery of resilience and perseverance seen throughout the film.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"800\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 800;\" width=\"1920\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SOTM_seq2_shot32-scaled.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SOTM_seq2_shot32.mov\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shot of the Month: \u201csequence 2, shot 32\u201d<br>Animator: Kyle Torres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, let\u2019s take a break from mechs to study this deceptively simple shot of the Ottoman\u2019s son chasing a beetle. The boy\u2019s stumble wasn\u2019t in the script\u2014animator Kyle Torres felt it was worth adding, and we ended up extending the length of the shot just to accommodate it. But what makes that stumble the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SOTM_seq2_shot32-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}