The Whole Equation
The Whole Equation
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The Problem with TV
Recently many of the biggest shows of the last couple of decades, from LOST and Dexter to The Sopranos and Game of Thrones, have receieved backlash for a poor ending. Rather than these being isolated incidents, bad endings are symptomatic of what TV has become recently. In this video essay I dive into how TV has evolved and the reasons why bad endings have become so common place.
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Episodic TV
2:40 Long Form TV
4:19 A New Wave of Shows
5:33 The Problem
6:07 The Difference with Film
7:21 A Bad Example
8:44 A Good Example
10:22 Deeper Issues
12:22 A Truly Great Show
13:21 New Forms in TV
14:14 Back to Episodic TV
14:59 Conclusion
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The Strange World of Early Sound Films
Просмотров 36 тыс.2 года назад
In the late 1920s the first Sound Films or 'Talkies' were released. Following the success of the Jazz Singer Hollywood was keen to release fully talking films to capitalise on its success. However, the first years of the talkies produced some strange results. As a result of the difficulty studios had in producing sound films these new pictures, many of the early sound films suffered from techni...
Quentin Tarantino: The Plot Unfolds
Просмотров 10 тыс.3 года назад
Quentin Tarantino is one of the great Hollwyood storytellers. Through classics like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, to modern masterpieces, like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, have you ever wondered how he makes his films so entertaining? In this video I explore how Tarantino creates plots which keep audiences engaged. Specifically I explore his non-linear storytelling and reveal the key to ke...
Denis Villeneuve: A Director's Choices
Просмотров 16 тыс.3 года назад
Denis Villeneuve has over the last decade become one of the most respected and succesful directors working in Hollywood. While he has worked with increasingly large budgets he has still maintained his own distinctive style, which sets him against most other blockbuster directors. In particular he makes choices around editing, camera movement and coverage which set him at odds with modern Hollyw...
Pixar: The Secret to Storytelling
Просмотров 12 тыс.3 года назад
Pixar's are arguably the world's most acclaimed movie studio and their success is laregely due to their excellent storytelling. In this video I explore Pixar's short films, which act as a microcosm to examine the how they tell such compelling and memorable stories. Note: This video first appeared on the page last year. It has reappeared now with copyright music from the clips edited out. #Pixar...
The First Filmmakers: Porter, Melies and Smith
Просмотров 2 тыс.3 года назад
The first projected films were shown to an audience by the Lumiere Brothers in 1895. These first films were simple, single shots of everyday life, filmed with static camera set ups. However, within a few years new filmmakers were creating beautiful new narrative films and creating a new cinematic language in the process. This is the story of those filmmakers, including the Frenchman, Georges Me...
Citizen Kane: Creating Depth and Space
Просмотров 26 тыс.3 года назад
Orson Welles' Citizien Kane is renowned for its deep focus cinematography and use of wide angle lenses. Welles work with cinematogrphaer Gregg Toland to create some of the most beautiful shots ever put to screen. Although wide angle lenses and deep focus were not unknown before Citizen Kane, it was Welles genius which discovered how to use these techniques to create a drama which is often consi...
Preston Sturges: The Coen Brother's Favorite Filmmaker
Просмотров 10 тыс.3 года назад
In 1940s Preston Sturges was amongst the most successful writer-director in Hollywood. Over the course of just 10 movies, he crafted a unique dialogue style. His films, such as the Lady Eve and Sullivan's Travels, are both highly original and very funny. Although he is largely forgotten, his writing influenced a whole host of modern filmmakers, including Wes Anderson, Aaron Sorkin and; Joel and...
Alfred Hitchcock: The Rules of Visual Storytelling
Просмотров 146 тыс.4 года назад
Alfred Hitchcock was perhaps the greatest cinematic storyteller of the 20th century. His films created a visual language which have influenced virtually every director since. In this video essay I examine how Hitchcock tells the story through his use of the camera to tell stories cinematically. In particular I focus on his thoughtful use of long shots and close-ups to convey plot and emotion vi...

Комментарии

  • @BurstVessels
    @BurstVessels 18 часов назад

    Great video!

  • @reespace
    @reespace 7 дней назад

    These films used to scare me so much when I was a kid. The images just looked so frightening. I appreciate them now as an adult.

  • @alexa7553
    @alexa7553 17 дней назад

    This is a nice illustration of the influence of the New Wave on Scorsese, but some of your examples are confusing or incorrect, particularly the ones that are supposed to illustrate the jump-cut. "Shoot the piano-player," for example, edits together different shots that repeat part of the action, with the purpose of extending the movement of the finger towards the doorbell, to suggest hesitance. That's a form of repeat cut, not a jump cut. Likewise, in the clip from the opening of "Mean Streets," Scorsese does not "time the jump cuts to the music"-first of all because there are barely 3 cuts in that clip, and none of them matches the beat of the music; but also because, there are no jump cuts whatsoever in what you showed. There is one cut that disrupts traditional continuity, when Keitel rests his head on the pillow twice (the second time from at a slightly different angle), but that's a "repeat cut" or "stutter cut," which is the opposite of the jump cut. A jump cut is a noticeable interruption of a continuous take, that gives the impression that part of the take has been cut out.. A simple cut to a shot that shows a different portion of the same space, from a different angle, is not a jump-cut.

  • @ChristinaAaliyah
    @ChristinaAaliyah 19 дней назад

    awesome explanation

  • @richardbaines5740
    @richardbaines5740 20 дней назад

    70

  • @fruitymarvel
    @fruitymarvel 25 дней назад

    vce drama anyone?

  • @hey.thats_music
    @hey.thats_music 29 дней назад

    Back then you could mix in a rudimentary way. In "The Canary Murder Case" from 1929, for example, which was half-finished and then made into a sound film, Louise Brooks' vocals were overdubbed. The animated film “Finding His Voice” from 1929, which explains the technology at the time, is interesting in this context.

  • @BarrySmith70
    @BarrySmith70 29 дней назад

    D.W. Griffith’s “Abraham Lincoln” (1930) was a movie that suffered from all of the problems mentioned in this video

  • @bigbonez9160
    @bigbonez9160 Месяц назад

    I recall some of the silent stars claiming that "the talkies killed the movies" & this has been a thought of which has pervaded my mined. To think soviet montage theory was concieved soo shortly to the invention of sound & the fact that after sounds popularity studios began to hire theater directors whom of which knew little to none about the filmic medium makes you think of the potential of silent films if sound had been prolongued by even just 2-3 years. 1927 (when the jazz singer was released) is deemed by many as one of the best years for silent cinema (metropolis, wings, sunrise, napoleon)... It may be strange to think that people once concidered the death of film to be sound when nowadays most attribute it to marvel & sequals (such opinions have validity), yet people were making such opinions 100 years ago which technology we intereract with everyday.

  • @Acorn11982
    @Acorn11982 2 месяца назад

    I don't think Chaplin failed. Have you seen The Great Dictator

  • @lipsyncyeah
    @lipsyncyeah 2 месяца назад

    😮

  • @tezzag818
    @tezzag818 2 месяца назад

    Lovely, thank you

  • @josephgraham3006
    @josephgraham3006 3 месяца назад

    Fantastic, essay, sir! You have a new & grateful subscriber.

  • @paulaharrisbaca4851
    @paulaharrisbaca4851 3 месяца назад

    I wonder if the sloppy sliding of the tennis player's feet indicates he's not only going to be a clever tennis player but a slippery but good character...

  • @dm-nu5tb
    @dm-nu5tb 4 месяца назад

    3:52 what is the name of this film?

  • @jackschlotfeld9845
    @jackschlotfeld9845 4 месяца назад

    why we gotta do national treasure dirty like that

  • @user-tp6fo7im3d
    @user-tp6fo7im3d 4 месяца назад

    That movie was 25 years ahead of its time.

  • @lofi.cinema
    @lofi.cinema 4 месяца назад

    fantastic video. thank you!

  • @FIlmXFilms
    @FIlmXFilms 4 месяца назад

    Great video.

  • @Jatyrinavant
    @Jatyrinavant 5 месяцев назад

    good video the black face caught me a little off guard

  • @johngarros2560
    @johngarros2560 6 месяцев назад

    What is the song in the beginning at 18 seconds pleaseeee

  • @LarryRobinsonintothefog
    @LarryRobinsonintothefog 6 месяцев назад

    It's hard to image an orchestra being on the set of a film, how far we have come.

  • @calvinnme2
    @calvinnme2 6 месяцев назад

    The frames of early talkies have the edges cut off because initially early talkies were sound on disc. That system did not work very well, so by the end of 1930 movies had switched to sound on film, with the soundtrack on the edge of the film strip. This required the edge of the picture being cut off.

  • @GrantTarredus
    @GrantTarredus 6 месяцев назад

    Hello. This is such a fine look at Hitchcock’s technique that the single error I find puzzles me terribly, because it’s very clear that the hand carrying the coffee cup in Notorious is no prop. Did I misunderstand you? Thanks!

  • @Hazel-wq1xl
    @Hazel-wq1xl 6 месяцев назад

    The early sound era was the best era of film until the 1970s. The 1940s and 1950s produced nothing but garbage for low IQ viewers since they were censored by idiots. But I can see how that pathetic era would appeal to low IQ democrats who loved censorship

    • @vinagredelmal7717
      @vinagredelmal7717 Месяц назад

      1940s and/or 1950s were great decades for Italian, Japanese, French or Swedish cinema.

  • @Hazel-wq1xl
    @Hazel-wq1xl 6 месяцев назад

    What a lunatic. So many errors in this it is unbelievable. For starters, many early sound films used a sound on disc system so that the film contained a larger image then normal sound on film film. When these were later converted to sound on film some of the image had to be cropped off. The guy narrating this video is a complete moron. Especially for using garbage clips from 1950s films to represent the era

  • @jeff__w
    @jeff__w 7 месяцев назад

    I’m not saying I know everything about cinema-I definitely don’t-but it’s rare for me to find a video on movies about a topic that I know _nothing_ about (or, for that matter, has not been covered by dozens of other videos) Thanks-that was a really fascinating video about the early days of sound in film.

  • @IANC4EVER
    @IANC4EVER 7 месяцев назад

    Great video, thanks 👍

  • @clk25120
    @clk25120 7 месяцев назад

    In that era, a few directors evolved from silent movies to talkies era

  • @John-nb6ep
    @John-nb6ep 7 месяцев назад

    All silent on the western front.

  • @MacrossFaltenmeyer
    @MacrossFaltenmeyer 7 месяцев назад

    In cinema I love those scenes where you can clearly see what is going on in the background. Those big shots where you can see multiple characters et cetera. You can clearly see this in full effect in films such as De Palma's Body Double and Boon Jong-ho's Parasite.

  • @judithlungen6958
    @judithlungen6958 8 месяцев назад

    More more Hitch fantastic

  • @bigfakenetwork
    @bigfakenetwork 9 месяцев назад

    Well done!

  • @MSGill645
    @MSGill645 9 месяцев назад

    The man was a known sexual pervert. Do your research

  • @cjhenderson88
    @cjhenderson88 9 месяцев назад

    Without dialogue, how do you follow the plot?! I'm a matriarch, I've been around for a while. This show was absolutely one of my favorites. You follow the plot through the music, the sound, the visual. It all comes together in your head.💞

  • @jaysonp9426
    @jaysonp9426 9 месяцев назад

    This is about to happen again with AI

  • @syoofmadkhaneh6570
    @syoofmadkhaneh6570 9 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much.. its too strange how academic you vudeo and how poor viewing it got.. you deserve a great success ❤❤❤❤

  • @FloydTaylor
    @FloydTaylor 9 месяцев назад

    that fwequently lispy stowie about fwaming a murdewa

  • @kbob1163
    @kbob1163 9 месяцев назад

    "Very few films of this era, roughly from 1928 to 1932, are considered classics today." I think this is only true if you ignore 1931. There were a lot of really good movies that year.

  • @danielbarrero2815
    @danielbarrero2815 9 месяцев назад

    i love your videos so much!!

  • @jeffmcmahon3278
    @jeffmcmahon3278 10 месяцев назад

    All well and good for directors. The challenge is for screenwriters to craft a script that provides the director with the material to emulate the skills Hitchcock.

  • @calvinnigh5489
    @calvinnigh5489 10 месяцев назад

    Hitchcock made some of my favorite movies. But that *hands* scene from Marnie might be the worst scene of any movie I’ve watched.

  • @filmhistorian8852
    @filmhistorian8852 10 месяцев назад

    I love Preston Sturges. My favorite film is unfaithfully yours what is very underrated compared to his other films. But the entire concept and idea behind that movie is so genius. And to my amazement never tried ever since. To base a script entirely on a piece of music. And it is amazingly executed.

  • @JamesTateWilson
    @JamesTateWilson 10 месяцев назад

    I hope you continue to make videos, this was great.

  • @MissyCeleste
    @MissyCeleste 10 месяцев назад

    I cant imagine being an actor during the time of silent movies then being put in a sound movie after having a whole career of silence, it must be so awkward

    • @scottherf
      @scottherf 4 месяца назад

      Many of the public disowned certain actors after they started “talking” because they didn’t think they should sound the way they did!

  • @darcybrummett7004
    @darcybrummett7004 10 месяцев назад

    3:00 Oh, so that’s why, in Singing In The Rain, the microphone picked up Lina’s heartbeat.

  • @webmarch06
    @webmarch06 11 месяцев назад

    まさに、オーソ・ンウェルズの野心が創り出した奇跡。

  • @videobytesjacobbradley
    @videobytesjacobbradley Год назад

    This is so informative! Thank you for making it.

  • @Vau_
    @Vau_ Год назад

    There are some newer shows that are more episodic than they are about a very long story arc. BBC's Sherlock and Hannibal (season 1 & 2) come to my mind.