Using Sidney Lumet’s ‘12 Angry Men‘, Andrew Saladino from The Royal Ocean Film Society looks at how blocking and staging can add emotion and density to scenes which may otherwise end up rather dull. For more interesting videos, definitely check out The Royal Ocean Film Society’s YouTube Channel.
Citizen Kane.”> Deep focus mise en scene from Citizen Kane. When it comes to a making a movie, the arrangement of a scene has a huge impact on the audience’s perspective. If the audience is intended to feel a particular emotion, or notice a particular detail, mise en scene visually does the work. Without putting proper…
The Film Theorists take a look at how Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Oscar-winner Birdman achieves the feel of being shot in one continuous take (when it wasn’t). If you’re interested in other truly long take films, check out the opening shot of Orson Welles’ 1958 thriller, Touch of Evil or Alexander Sokurov’s 2002 film, Russian Ark which is the real deal: shot in a single 96 minute Steadicam…
Akira Kurosawa is celebrated as one of the greatest film directors in history. He true mastery of the medium is evident in every one of his films. In this video, the guys over at Every Frame a Painting take a look at how use of movement in different planes of a shot elevates a scene from pedestrian to grand master….
In this short video, Tony at Every Frame A Painting looks at the ingredients of an effective scene using the classic first meeting from ‘The Silence of the Lambs‘ to illustrate the point. For more from Every Frame a Painting, visit the blog.
With so many players involved in the filmmaking process, from the actors, writers and directors, to the editors and cinematographers, not to mention the studio executives throwing in their two cents, it’s hard to tell who is responsible for the finished product of a film. So who is the true author of a film? For…
In order to speak of appropriation we must first answer the question: What do we mean by film text? As Christian Metz put it since the 1970s in his article “The Imaginary Signifier”1 published on Screen, film implies the entire institution of filmmaking: the creation, the distribution, and the exhibition of the work. The term ‘text’ derives…
“It’s launching on multiple targets tomorrow, the targets have shifted we’ve just been fighting for so long…there’s a more advanced tracking system now so we know we won’t miss…. We’ve won half the territories – this hit will finish it….” Condi reporting to George Bush? Or a conversation overheard in the distribution offices of the…
