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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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