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Every Camera Movement Technique Explained. By StudioBinder.

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Madness is often merely perception.

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."

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

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

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 ...

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Where Walter Murch is a god

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

Today we get into the process of music and sound design!

The title character played by Michael Cera in the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is a bewildered young man in a constant state of flux. Fittingly, director Edgar Wright pays extra attention to the transitions between the scenes in this mov ...