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Mother (2009) - The Telephoto Profile Shot
Every Frame a Painting909K viewsHow Bong Joon-ho uses the telephoto profile shot in Mother.
Art, Music & Design
101,211 videos · Craft and analysis: film, painting, music and design.
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5:57The Sustained Two-Shot
Every Frame a Painting625K viewsHow the sustained two-shot lets actors play a scene together without cutting.
5:01A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film
Every Frame a Painting1.79M viewsHow filmmakers have tried to show texting and the internet on screen, and which approaches work.
3:34Drive (2011) - The Quadrant System
Every Frame a Painting1.82M viewsHow Drive's director divides the frame into quadrants to show who controls each scene.
6:29Wolf Children (2012) - The Lateral Tracking Shot
Every Frame a Painting898K viewsHow Mamoru Hosoda's lateral tracking shot shows time passing in Wolf Children.
5:06The Imposter (2012) - Looking into the Lens
Every Frame a Painting750K viewsHow the documentary The Imposter uses subjects looking into the lens.
8:00Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
Every Frame a Painting11.3M viewsHow Edgar Wright builds jokes out of camera movement, framing, sound and editing rather than dialogue, contrasted with flatter Hollywood comedy coverage.
5:19In Praise of Chairs
Every Frame a Painting1.28M viewsHow directors use chairs and seating to stage dialogue scenes and power dynamics.
3:11The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - The Geometry of a Scene
Every Frame a Painting964K viewsHow Kurosawa arranges actors geometrically in a single long take from The Bad Sleep Well.
6:09Robin Williams - In Motion
Every Frame a Painting1.69M viewsHow Robin Williams used physical movement and blocking, and how directors staged him.
4:31F for Fake (1973) - How to Structure a Video Essay
Every Frame a Painting1.15M viewsWhat Orson Welles's F for Fake teaches about structuring an essay film.
9:25How Does an Editor Think and Feel?
Every Frame a Painting2.77M viewsUses Walter Murch's ideas and real examples to show how editors decide when to cut, and how rhythm and emotion drive editing.
8:54Chuck Jones - The Evolution of an Artist
Every Frame a Painting4.59M viewsTraces Chuck Jones's development as an animator and the rules and timing principles behind the Road Runner and Bugs Bunny shorts.
7:59The Spielberg Oner
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7:29David Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong
Every Frame a Painting4.59M viewsExamines David Fincher's precise camera language: locked-off framing, motivated movement and why his camera rarely feels handheld.
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The Death of Socrates: How To Read A Painting
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7:05Joel & Ethan Coen - Shot | Reverse Shot
Every Frame a Painting4.06M viewsShows how the Coen brothers use the humble shot/reverse-shot setup with unusual precision in lens choice, eyelines and framing.
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The 7 Levels of Jazz Harmony
Adam Neely5.06M viewsSeven levels of jazz harmony, from triads to upper-structure and modal reharmonisation, demonstrated at the keyboard.
34:29Does Music Have a Speed Limit? And Why?
Adam Neely529K viewsExplores the upper and lower limits of tempo, where rhythm turns into pitch, and the psychology of perceiving beat.
6:46Memories of Murder (2003) - Ensemble Staging
Every Frame a Painting1.85M viewsBreaks down Bong Joon-ho's ensemble staging in Memories of Murder: how he keeps many actors in one frame and directs the viewer's eye.
9:06Vancouver Never Plays Itself
Every Frame a Painting2.18M viewsHow Vancouver doubles for other cities in film and TV, and what is lost when a real place is never allowed to play itself.
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Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas’: Great Art Explained
Great Art Explained1.85M viewsFrida Kahlo's The Two Fridas and how it reflects her divorce and dual identity.
6:09Martin Scorsese - The Art of Silence
Every Frame a Painting3.16M viewsHow Martin Scorsese uses sudden silence as a sound-design tool to heighten key moments.
14:06Testing 432 Hz Frequencies (and temperaments)
Adam Neely3.98M viewsTests claims about 432 Hz tuning and explains tuning standards and temperaments along the way.
36:12Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
Great Art Explained1.07M viewsA 36-minute study of Leonardo's Last Supper: experimental technique, deterioration, restoration and composition.
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The Typographic Legacy of Microsoft
Linus Boman474K viewsExplains Microsoft's typographic legacy, from core web fonts to ClearType.
12:42King Charles III's new cypher is a design classic
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Why Use a Yellow Underpainting?
James Gurney1.35M viewsWhy painters use a warm yellow underpainting and how it affects the final colour.
25:36Papyrus: The World's 2nd Most Hated Font
Linus Boman495K viewsExplains the history and design of the Papyrus typeface.
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Why They Just Don't Care About Continuity
Thomas Flight1.94M viewsWhy filmmakers deliberately break continuity and what editors prioritise instead.
13:11Bohemian Rhapsody's Terrible Editing - A Breakdown
Thomas Flight4.37M viewsA cut-by-cut breakdown of the over-edited scene in Bohemian Rhapsody and what good editing does instead.
7:24Where Do You Put the Camera?
Every Frame a Painting1.19M viewsCompares how different directors answer the basic question of where to place the camera, using Kurosawa, Spielberg and others.
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Design Cinema – EP 29 - FOV in Games Part 01
FZDSCHOOL238K viewsHow field of view works in video games and how it affects concept art.
Everything is a Remix (Original Series)
Kirby Ferguson926K viewsKirby Ferguson's series showing how music, film and technology are built from copying, transforming and combining earlier work.
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CD / Color
Captain Disillusion2.87M viewsCaptain Disillusion explains how colour works in video and image editing: colour models, channels and grading.
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How Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture
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Recommended books
- The Story of Art, E.H. GombrichThe classic introduction to art history
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty EdwardsThe classic course in learning to see and draw
- The Jazz Theory Book, Mark LevineThe standard jazz theory reference
- Thinking with Type, Ellen LuptonThe standard short guide to typography
- Understanding Exposure, Bryan PetersonThe classic, clear guide to aperture, shutter and ISO
- In the Blink of an Eye, Walter MurchThe classic short book on film editing
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