Locked-Down Shot
A shot where the camera is fixed in one position while the action continues off-screen. It says life is messy and can not be contained by a camera. Beloved by Woody Allen and the dolly grips who can take the afternoon off.
Film Studies 101: The 30 Camera Shots Every Film Fan Needs To Know
Empire Online, By Ian Freer
Another interpretation I read: It says the world goes on without us. I think this take was from Andrew Sarris and he was referring to Robert Bresson. But I can’t find the specific reference…
Quote found:
“Bresson has been criticized on at least one occasion for showing a place a beat or two after the people have departed, thus fading out on geography rather than humanity. Far from being a flaw, this Bressonian mannerism expresses an attitude of man’s place in the universe. For Bresson, place precedes and transcends person, since the world was here before we came and will be here long after we are gone.”
The Trial of Joan of Arc, review by Andrew Sarris. Originally in The Village Voice.
Quoted here from Confessions of A Cultist: On the Cinema, 1955 – 1969