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Perfect Framing

Perfect Framing

When composition reduce the need for cutting and close ups.

By EL Pobre Profe

Composing Movement

Composing Movement

More than many other filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa had an innate understanding of movement and how to capture it onscreen.

By EL Pobre Profe

The Forget Film School Guide to Camera Movement

The Forget Film School Guide to Camera Movement

Every Camera Movement Technique Explained. By StudioBinder.

By EL Pobre Profe

The Aesthetic of Evil

The Aesthetic of Evil

By EL Pobre Profe

The Aesthetic of Madness

The Aesthetic of Madness

Madness is often merely perception.

By EL Pobre Profe

Layers of Meaning

Layers of Meaning

Learn From The Screenplay "Mad Men, a show about mid-twentieth century American advertising, skillfully employs text, subtext, and symbolic imagery to emotionally sway the audience."

By EL Pobre Profe

Colour In Storytelling

Colour In Storytelling

Film Schools Never Teach The Knowledge of Art Created by Lewis Michael Bond and Luiza Liz Bond

By EL Pobre Profe

Making the iPhone film No Hard Feelings

Making the iPhone film "No Hard Feelings"

cinematographer David Cleeve about making the iPhone short film "No Hard Feelings" (interview by iPhoneographers)

By EL Pobre Profe

In this video by CinemaTyler on the cinematography of Full Metal Jacket, we take a look at Kubrick�s unique lighting process, how he used models of the sets to prepare for shooting, the meticulous camera movement and composition, as well as a look at ...

By EL Pobre Profe

The Shape of Stories - Kurt Vonnegut

The Shape of Stories - Kurt Vonnegut

If this isn't nice I don't now what is.

By EL Pobre Profe

Worldizing Film Sound

Worldizing Film Sound

Where Walter Murch is a god

By EL Pobre Profe

How Technicolor changed movies

How Technicolor changed movies

What was "glorious Technicolor?" It was a groundbreaking technology - and then some.

By EL Pobre Profe

DYI Cheap Daylight Panel

DYI Cheap Daylight Panel

save a few hundred bucks and make your own daylight panels

By EL Pobre Profe

How Rear Projection Works

How Rear Projection Works

You're confusing rear and front projection with your 2001 and Oblivion examples.

By EL Pobre Profe

Network: Why The Acting Is So Good

Network: Why The Acting Is So Good

CinemaTyler takes a look at Paddy Chayefsky and Sidney Lumet�s 1976 iconic diatribe of the television industry,

By EL Pobre Profe

The Art of the Gag - Buster Keaton

The Art of the Gag - Buster Keaton

Before Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson, before Chuck Jones and Jackie Chan, there was Buster Keaton, one of the founding fathers of visual comedy. (Every Frame a Painting)

By EL Pobre Profe

The Art Of Film Grain

The Art Of Film Grain

Nerdwriter looks at how Panos Cosmatos uses the effects of film grain in Mandy.

By EL Pobre Profe

See With Your Ears: Sound Design

See With Your Ears: Sound Design

Nerdwriter looks at how sound design can structure a movie scene.

By EL Pobre Profe

Improve Your Editing

Improve Your Editing

"This Guy Edits" Talking about how you can focus your editing skills on the single most important thing.

By EL Pobre Profe

With Picasso To the Next Level

With Picasso To the Next Level

What can we learn from Pablo Picasso's style and philosophy and apply to filmmaking and editing? - "This Guy Edits" Reveals

By EL Pobre Profe

Engines of Domination

Engines of Domination

This 7-minute clip discusses the abolition of armed central authority and what kind of world that would make possible -- a world of peaceful voluntary communities thriving in harmony with the habitat. Music: Pye Corner Audio "Toward Light" Mark ...

By ideólogo monofóbico

F for Fake (Today's Lesson: Structure)

F for Fake (Today's Lesson: Structure)

Let's study 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.

By EL Pobre Profe

The Niemand Dolly 2.0

The Niemand Dolly 2.0

make your own cheap, cheap heap pocket size dolly

By EL Pobre Profe

Composing Movement - Akira Kurosawa

Composing Movement - Akira Kurosawa

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 ...

By EL Pobre Profe

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