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I’ve made this short movie while being in lockdown due to global pandemic. It represents still, repetitive and dull moments of our life. Often they can cause loneliness and feeling of not being worth at all.

Jennifer Lawrence: Acting real and reel acting

A video essay I made. I tried.

Black Swan.

Trauma and abuse are, I think, extremely important topics for video games to begin approaching - it points to a maturity in the medium, as games begin dealing with increasingly ‘real’, ‘adult’ subjects. This is also why, in my opinion, it’s important we call it out when we feel a game has mishandled the issue - hence my latest video essay on DONTNOD’s Captain Spirit. Even if you end up disagreeing with my stance, I hope I contributed something worthwhile to the conversation. Enjoy!

The SON of Miyazaki (A Goro Miyazaki Retrospective)
A look back at Goro Miyazaki, the director who can’t help be in the shadow of his father, Hayao Miyazaki. We see how his career has went from its messy beginning into the current day and ask if there’s a future for him in the industry. 

I like to study films. To me, this one particularly is a never ending source of filmmaking and cinematography lessons. Here I blabber about how the director makes use of the neglected zoom technique.

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RWBY Is Using its Characters the Purpose of Robyn Hill

This is a supplement to THE MARVEL SYMPHONIC UNIVERSE. It’s the second of two new videos today. Watch the other video first.

This video was made by
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Taylor Ramos: https://twitter.com/glassesattached
Tony Zhou: https://twitter.com/tonyszhou

This is the first of two new videos today. Watch this one first.

Off the top of your head, could you sing the theme from Star Wars? How about James Bond? Or Harry Potter? But here’s the kicker: can you sing any theme from a Marvel film? Despite 13 films and 10 billion dollars at the box office, the Marvel Cinematic Universe lacks a distinctive musical identity or approach. So let’s try to answer the question: what is missing from Marvel music?

This video was made by
Brian Satterwhite: https://twitter.com/bmsatter
Taylor Ramos: https://twitter.com/glassesattached
Tony Zhou: https://twitter.com/tonyszhou

For the past ten years, I’ve been editing professionally. Yet one question always stumps me: “How do you know when to cut?” And I can only answer that it’s very instinctual. On some level, I’m just thinking & feeling my way through the edit. So today, I’d like to describe that process: how does an editor think & feel?

Written & edited by Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou. Follow us through
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How do you film a conversation? Most likely, you’re going to block the actors, set up the camera, and do shot/reverse shot. But where do you put the camera? What lens do you use? And how do you cut back and forth? Today, I consider the Coen brothers — Joel & Ethan — and see how these choices lend a particular feel to their version of shot/reverse shot.

This video was co-written with Taylor Ramos. Follow her on:
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How do you emphasize to the audience that something is important? Well, you could always cut to a close-up, but how about something subtler? Today I consider ensemble staging — a style of filmmaking that directs the audience exactly where to look, without ever seeming to do so at all.

Eight Ways to Get the Audience to Look at Someone/Something:
1) Let Them Speak
2) Make Them Brighter or Bring Them Closer
3) Let Them Move (Especially Hands or Eyes)
4) Put Them in the Center of Frame
5) Turn Them Towards the Lens
6) Separate Them from the Group
7) Isolate Them by Moving the Camera
8) Have Other People Look at Them

Before Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson, before Chuck Jones and Jackie Chan, there was Buster Keaton, one of the founding fathers of visual comedy. And nearly 100 years after he first appeared onscreen, we’re still learning from him. Today, I’d like to talk about the artistry (and the thinking) behind his gags. Press the CC button to see the names of the films.

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Perhaps no other city has been as thoroughly hidden from modern filmmaking as Vancouver, my hometown. Today, it’s the third biggest film production city in North America, behind Los Angeles and New York. And yet for all the movies and TV shows that are shot there, we hardly ever see the city itself. So today, let’s focus less on the movies and more on the city in the background. Press the CC button to see movie names and locations.

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If you grew up watching Looney Tunes, then you know Chuck Jones, one of all-time masters of visual comedy. Normally I would talk about his ingenious framing and timing, but not today. Instead, I’d like to explore the evolution of his sensibilities as an artist.

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One of the great things about detailed production design is that it pays off in unexpected ways. So today I explore the weird possibilities of that most common of objects: the chair.

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What can one detail tell us about a scene? If you’re Lynne Ramsay: absolutely everything. Today I consider the poetic possibilities of cinema and one of our finest contemporary filmmakers.

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If you want to make video essays, there’s no better film to study than Orson Welles’ 1973 masterpiece, F for Fake. There are a million lessons to take away from it, but today, let’s see what it has to teach us about structure. NO SPOILERS.

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Can movement tell a story? Sure, if you’re as gifted as Akira Kurosawa. More than any other filmmaker, he had an innate understanding of movement and how to capture it onscreen. Join me today in studying the master, possibly the greatest composer of motion in film history.

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One of the many pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” (2011) is that the shots feel both tightly composed and weirdly unpredictable. Even though most of the images follow a simple quadrant system, Refn puts plenty of subtle touches within the frame. Let’s take a look.

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