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Research: Film Journals

Tips for DP film students

Research: Film Journals


Senses of Cinema 


Bright Lights 


Script Magazine 


Images Journal 


Soundtrack 


Sight and Sound: Teacher Resources 


Cinema Scope


Empire


350 free Films Noir


400 Silent Films


Free Horror and Sc-Fi Films


Box Office


International Cinematographers Guild


David Bordwell's film site


Mark Cousins ( The Story of Film)

40 Days to Learn Film


Cinephile (Uni of BC)

The Art of Movie Posters

Research: websites

Tips for DP film students

Research: Film Journals

Blade Runner & Stranger Things

Edutopia:  Film-making in the Classroom


Film Education 


Film School Rejects 


Scriptwriters University 


Filmsite 


Storyboards: Directors' Guild of America 


Shot/Scene Analysis 

by Directors' Guild of America


Into Film  (resources site) 


British Film Institute (resources)  


100 Years of Cinema 


Roger Ebert Film Reviews


The Production Code (documentary)


Motion Picture Production Code 1930


Hong Kong Cinema


Filmmaker IQ


Explaining Who does What?


Free downloadable film scripts


A Brief History of Women in Film

(Recommended by Alice)


A quick intro to Film Theory

Tips for DP film students

Tips for DP film students

Tips for DP film students



7 Lessons from Classic Films


How to Use Colour


When to Use Different Lenses


Create Impact with Colour


Advice from Wes Anderson


How to create compelling characters


How to Shoot Exteriors

  

How to format your script


Cinematography:  Advice from Roger Deakins


Tips on Production Design


Collaborating


When to Move your Camera


How to Create Tone


How to Block your Actors


Blocking and Staging tips


How to Light Candlelit-Dinner Scene


How to using Props


How to Light for Darkness


A Pre-production Checklist


5 Lighting Concepts to Know


Tips on Recording your Sound


How to Create Mood through Lighting


Sound Design: Foley


Create tension through geometry


The importance of blocking


The importance of adding movement


Create Fear through Music


Create Meaning through Framing 


Screenwriting Tips from Chloe Zhao


Help for screenwriters


The Dutch Angle


How to use Frames


Composing your shots



Movements & theories

Movements & theories

Tips for DP film students

German Expressionism

  From Caligari to Hitler

Tenets of German Expressionism 

  Nazis vs. Expressionism Part 1 

   Nazis vs. Expressionism Part 2  


Film Noir

  American Cinema PBS

The Rules of Film Noir 

Film Noir Lighting 

 Bringing Darkness to Light 


French New Wave 


Soviet Montage 


Third Cinema


Czech New Wave 


China's Fifth Generation

  Part One 

  Part Two 


US Film School Generation 


Dogme 95 


British Social Realism


Surrealism ( by David Lynch) 


Film Styles and Film Movements 


What is Semiotics?


Mexican cinema


Marxist Film Theory : Metropolis


Auteur Theory


Colour Theory  & Was Anderson


Psychological Film Theory & Paprika


Film Noir: The Art of Shadows


Marxist Film Theory in Metropolis


A Quick Intro to Film Theory


What is Film Theory? Studio Binder

genres

Movements & theories

tutorials


Comedy : Edgar Wright style


 Visual Comedy


The Musical 


The Horror Film 


The Combat Film 


The Gangster Film - by Martin Scorsese 


Italian Neo-realism by Martin Scorsese 


The Spaghetti Western 


Revisionist Westerns


Science Fiction in the 1950s


Types of comedy


Action Comedy


The Rom-Com Formula


Crime Movies


Comparative Studies of 2 Films


Superhero & Action Films


The War (Anti-war) Film


The Action Film : Fast & Furious


Black Comedy


Coming of Age films


History of the Western



tutorials

Movements & theories

tutorials


How to write a script


Blocking your Shots


The 180 Degree Rule


180 Degree Rule by Studio Binder  


How to Break the 180 Degree Rule


Cinematic Lighting by Simon Cade 


 Edit to the Beat: Filmmaker IQ


 10 Editing Tips: This Guy Edits


Creating Film Noir Lighting


Creating Foley Sounds


Make your own Foley Sounds


How to Record  ADR


Creating Mood through Lighting


Three-point Lighting


Five Methods of Montage


Learn from PIXAR


How to write and direct

Advice from Quentin Tarantino


How to use Cross-cutting


How to shoot with one camera


6 things your screenplay needs


How to Create a Video Essay

a. How Nerdwriter does it

b. Writing the Script

c. Clips and Voice-over


Creating Dynamic Characters


 How to Create your Script


How to Make a Moodboard


How to write a SHORT film


How to design a movie poster








cinematography

Some favourite Films

Some favourite Films


Cinematographers on Cinematography

Excellent channel


 The French Dispatch


Top 10 Cinematographers of All Time


The Most Beautiful Shots in Film History


Every Best Cinematography Oscar Winner


Roger Deakins

a. Ask Roger a question 

b. Roger's cinematography

c. Sicario


Emmanuel Lubezki

The Revenant 

Language of the Image

Lubezki's Style


James Laxton 

Moonlight


Conrad Hall


Jeff Cronenweth 

The Social Network


Gordon Willis 

The Godfather


John Alton


Greg Toland 

Citizen Kane


Hong Kyung-pyo 

Parasite


The French Dispatch


Roger Deakins on Composition


Great Composition


American Beauty: Mise-en-scene & Cinematography


How to read Cinematography


 Zodiac - Cinematography Analysis 


Cinematography of `Moonlight


The Beauty of The Farewell


Oppenheimer


Director's Choose their  BEST SHOTS

Scott, Villeneuze, Snyder ,etc


30 Best Cinematography Tips


Parasite; Composition, Colour, Lighting






Some favourite Films

Some favourite Films

Some favourite Films

No Country for Old Men

Best villain ever?


No Country for Old Men

Motivated Lighting


The Shining:  Set Design


The Shining: Kubrick's Notebooks

  

The Shining: Native American Genocide 


Se7en


City of God : Open World 


City of God, Guns & Gangs


City of God : Globalized Violence 


City of God : Cosmetics of Hunger  


Taxi Driver Analysis


Listening to Taxi Driver (Sound Design)


Taxi Driver: The Last Temptation 

 

Parasite:  Architecture


Parasite: Opening Scene


Parasite: Editing


Parasite: Storyboarding


Parasite: Cinematography 


 Parasite: The Use of Symbols


 Making Blade Runner 2049


Blade Runner 2049 Set Design


 Blade Runner Sound and Music


Blade Runner All 8 Versions


Blade Runner The Art of Loneliness


The Beauty of Blade Runner


Arrival: Soviet editing techniques


Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times


Editing Dune


Bergman's Persona


Lost in Translation


There Will Be Blood


Taika Waititi's Boy


Bergman's  Persona


Taxi Driver You Talkin' To Me?


Editing in Everything Everywhere All at Once


Language in Editing Everything All at Once


Inception :Between the Lines

Brilliant analysis of Nolan's influences


Decision to Leave

Incisive analysis with spoilers


Killers of the Flower Moon


Zone of Interest


Ripley ( Netflix)


 The Use of Artworks in Ripley


Ex Machina: Design


Ex Machina: Effects





directors

Some favourite Films

the documentary

The Directors Series

Excellent, in -dept studies  of these directors:

Stanley Kubrick, Christopher Nolan, Sophia Coppola, Terrence Malick, Paul Thomas Anderson & David Fincher


Bong-joon Ho  (Parasite)


Francis Ford Coppola  discusses his films


Christopher Nolan

Insomnia

Nolan in One Minute

Interstellar

Connecting Nolan's films


Kari Skogland  ( The Handmaid's Tale)


Todd Phillips ( Joker)


Sam Mendes


Denis Villeneuve

Prisoners

 Sicario


Edgar Wright: Visual Comedy


David Fincher


Joel and Ethan Coen


Terrence Malick 


Wes Anderson


Jordan Peele


Andrei Tarkovsky


Akira Kurosawa


Quentin Tarantino


Tarantino "I steal from every movie ever made."


Stanley Kubrick's composition style


Tarkovsky : an overview


Sofia Coppolas' directing style


Damien Chazelle La La Land



the documentary

more tips for DP FIlm students

the documentary


The Imposter 

Looking into the Lens


Triumph of the Will 

Is it propaganda?


Editing Documentaries

How docs create meaning through editing

 

 Art of the Edit 

Full documentary on editing


The Art of Action 

Shooting and editing martial arts films


The Art of Cinematography

Includes Her, Dunkirk, Roma, Avengers


The Cutting Edge

Doc on editing:Tarantino, Scorsese, Cameron, 


Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

New Hollywood and the film school generation


Room 237: The Shining

Various interpretations of Kubrick's film


Visions of Light

Doc on the  craft and art of cinematography


Re-enactment in The Thin Blue Line


The Thing Blue Line interview



music and Sound design

more tips for DP FIlm students

more tips for DP FIlm students



The Batman: Expressionist sound design


Diegetic & Non-diegetic Sound


"Worldizing" and How It Works 


Film Sound; A comprehensive collection 


Listening to Blade Runner


Musical themes in Lord of the Rings


The fascinating sci-fi sound of Looper


How Hans Zimmer creates worlds


In-Depth Sound Design :

Star Wars, Fight Club, Arrival, etc


A Quiet Place


Black Panther


The Birds


Moonlight


Fight Club


Spielberg: Suspense & Sound Design


Foley Sound: Lieing to your Ears


Sound is 70% of What You See


Storytelling with Sound

Terminator 2, The Matrix and Star Wars


Quentin Tarantino's use  of Music


The Emotional Impact of Music in Film


Sound Design in No Time To Die


Dune: How Zimmer created the music


The Noir Sound of Double Indemnity


Dune Sounds


Dune  Music


Sound Design in Sound of Metal


How Darren Aronofsky uses Sound


How Spielberg uses Sound


Zone of Interest: Terror through Sound


Oppenheimer's music


Sound in Le Samourai


The Sound of  Children of Men






more tips for DP FIlm students

more tips for DP FIlm students

more tips for DP FIlm students


CINEMATOGRAPHY for Visual  Storytelling


Know your Shots 

The ultimate guide to shot types


How and why to compose your shots


Crimson Engine 

Excellent film-making tutorials  


When (and how) should I move my camera?   


BLOCKING  & COMPOSITION  tips  


8 Steps to Great  COMPOSITION


8 Ways to get Better SOUND 


Everything you need to know about EDITING


How and when to use DRAMATIC IRONY


A simple method of BLOCKING


Use FRAME RATE to transform your shots


 How to format your script


How to create a non-linear script


Making your Production Calendar


Choosing Where to Shoot your Film


Using a Split Screen for Effect


How to Frame a Shot (The Farewell)


How to Structure your Screenplay


Writing a Bilingual Script


Subjective vs Objective Camera Angles


How to Frame your Shot


How to Build Suspense


Get free film scripts


How to write a screenplay


How to write a scene


The Over-the-shoulder Shot


Director's Role: Staging


Cinematographers:  Shot Composition


Director's Role: Blocking Actors


Storyboarding: Learn from Parasite


How to use Colour









some favourite video-essays and channels

lessons from the screenplay

Michael Tucker's video essays are exemplary  in terms of both content and technique. Access his full collection here https://www.youtube.com/c/LessonsfromtheScreenplay/videos

anatomy of a scene

Excellent New York Times series - regularly updated

Access the webpage here https://www.nytimes.com/video/anatomy-of-a-scene

every frame a painting

Access Tony Zhou's fantastic channel here https://vimeo.com/channels/everyframeapainting/videos

this guy edits

Tips and analysis -perfect for film students. Access all his videos here https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisGuyEdits/videos

soundworks collection

Analysis and interviews with sound designers. Visit the website here https://soundworkscollection.com/post/storytelling-with-cinematic-sound-design

no film school

A wide range from textual analysis, to film history to production tutorials. Try these sound design videos.  https://nofilmschool.com/2014/01/behind-scenes-sound-team-hobbit-desolation-smaug

the cinema cartography

Check out the full collection here

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheSolomonSociety/videos

Columbia film Glossary

A great teaching tool created by the the Film Department at Columbia  https://filmglossary.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/

the solomon society

Focusing on the beauty of cinematography 

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheSolomonSociety/videos

Studio Binder

Wide ranging topics on analysis and film production - and an excellent newsletter for subscribers and a good Instagram feed. 

Excellent resources on the website https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/e-books/library/


Wolfcrow

Focuses on cinematography with excellent tutorials. https://www.youtube.com/c/Wolfcrow/playlists


Brows Held High

A wide variety of film and theatre video essays. See his full list here https://www.youtube.com/user/oancitizen/videos



Film Analysis in 20 films

Excellent video essays on Tarkovsky, Lynch, Kubrick, Hitchcock, etc


Thomas Flight

Intelligent video essays

https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasFlight/videos

The kogonada channel

Focuses on visuals

https://vimeo.com/kogonada/videos/sort:alphabetical/format:thumbnail


Spikema Video Essays

The Lighthouse, The Shining and more

Au Bout de Souffle - breathless

Godard's hugely influential film


Check out this great video


Thomas Flight examines te  continuing influence of Expressionism

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