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Chris Stuckmann reviews Identity, starring John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall, John C. McGinley, William Lee Scott, Jake Busey, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Rebecca De Mornay. Directed by James Mangold.
"Making Of" coming October 15th. LAST LIGHT -- a supernatural horror short film. Narrated by Doug Jones Emily Connolly as "Her" Justin Robinson & Rene Gomez as "The Coroners" Written, shot, directed, and edited by Ryan Connolly Producer/Production manager - Josh Connolly Producer - Allen Atzbi Gaffer - Justin Robinson Production design - Ashley Connolly Production support - Dre Zamorano Production support - Rene Gomez Sound recordist - Brett Driver VFX BY: Ryan Thompson Matus Pavkeje Damian Pietrykowski Ryan Connolly Original Score by - Filip Olejka SHOT ON: Blackmagic PYXIS 12k DZO Arles Prime Lenses - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QqrDkC06lg
Chris Stuckmann reviews The Glass House, starring Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård, Bruce Dern, Trevor Morgan. Directed by Daniel Sackheim.
Chris Stuckmann reviews Saw III, starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh, Donnie Wahlberg, Dina Meyer. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.
Blood Simple (1984) breakdown — How Joel and Ethan Coen made one of the most assured debuts in film history by breaking with convention at every step, from financing to cinematography to casting. Subscribe to StudioBinder Academy ►► https://bit.ly/sb-ad StudioBinder Blog ►► http://bit.ly/sb-bl Try Higgsfield ►► https://higgsfield.ai/ ───────────────────── Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction to Blood Simple 00:53 - How the Film began 02:54 - Financing the Film 04:45 - Cinematography with Barry Sonnenfeld 07:46 - Extraordinary Performances 09:35 - Final Thoughts ───────────────────── THE COEN BROTHERS' FIRST FILM Very few directors arrive fully formed, but the Coen Brothers did. Blood Simple, a Texas-set neo-noir about a bartender, his boss's wife and the private investigator hired to kill them, already has every Coen hallmark: stylized dialogue, a collision of grisly violence and dark humor, and a protagonist who can't get out of his own way. The title comes from a line in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. HOW BLOOD SIMPLE WAS FINANCED Knowing no studio would back two unknowns with an oddball noir, the Coens followed their friend Sam Raimi's lead and shot a short trailer to show investors. Cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld — hired partly because he owned a 16mm camera — recalls screening it for "investment groups full of dentists." It took about a year, but it worked. BLOOD SIMPLE CINEMATOGRAPHY Sonnenfeld had never shot a feature, so the team made up for it in planning, storyboarding the film in the Coens' Riverside Drive apartment. Inspired by early Scorsese and Robby Müller's work on The American Friend, they embraced unmotivated camera moves, a custom rig built by grip Tom Prophet, and saturated neon lighting. CASTING FRANCES McDORMAND AND M. EMMET WALSH Without the budget for stars, the Coens scouted New York theater. Holly Hunter recommended her roommate, Frances McDormand, in her first film role, and M. Emmet Walsh signed on after seeing the same trailer that won over investors. #FilmTheory #VideoEssay #Filmmaking ───────────────────── ♬ SONGS USED: “The March” — Carter Burwell “Blood Simple” — Carter Burwell “Blood Simpler” — Carter Burwell “Second Chance” — Adi Goldstein “A Mystery Continues” — Pacific Oaks “Realisation” — Dan Phillipson “Norville’s End” — Carter Burwell “Light Lunch” — Carter Burwell “Tokyo Waits” — All India Radio “Evolution” — All Good Folks “The Void” — Brock Hewitt: Stories in Sound “Down to the River to Pray” — O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack “Tell Me” — The Rolling Stones “Equilibrium” — Yoel “The Wheel Turns” — Carter Burwell, The Hudsucker Proxy First Films_Blood Simple d1 “Tumbling Tumbleweeds / Cool Water” — Sons of the Pioneers Music by Artlist ► https://utm.io/umJx Music by Artgrid ► https://utm.io/umJy Music by Soundstripe ► http://bit.ly/2IXwomF Music by Music Vine ► http://bit.ly/2IUE0pT Music by MusicBed ► http://bit.ly/2Fnz9Zq ───────────────────── SUBSCRIBE to StudioBinder’s YouTube channel! ►► http://bit.ly/2hksYO0 Looking for a project management platform for your filmmaking? StudioBinder is an intuitive project management solution for video creatives; create shooting schedules, breakdowns, production calendars, shot lists, storyboards, call sheets and more. Try StudioBinder for FREE today: https://studiobinder.com/pricing — Join us on Social Media! — Instagram ►► https://www.instagram.com/studiobinder Facebook ►► https://www.facebook.com/studiobinderapp Twitter ►► https://www.twitter.com/studiobinder #film-theory, #video-essay, #filmmaker
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Chris Stuckmann reviews Bride of Chucky, starring Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile, John Ritter. Directed by Ronny Yu.
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Chris Stuckmann reviews Pan's Labyrinth, starring Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil. Directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Chris Stuckmann reviews Valentine, starring Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, Jessica Cauffiel, Katherine Heigl. Directed by Jamie Blanks.
Chris Stuckmann reviews Jeepers Creepers, starring Justin Long, Gina Philips, Jonathan Breck, Patricia Belcher, Eileen Brennan.
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Chris Stuckmann reviews Hide and Seek, starring Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Dylan Baker, Elisabeth Shue, Melissa Leo, Robert John Burke. Directed by John Polson.
SUPPORT KILLER VIDEO'S EXPANSION: http://kck.st/4ytVLRs Chris Stuckmann reviews House of Wax, starring Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Robert Ri'chard. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.
Outrage as a ratings strategy, written in 1976. Paddy Chayefsky's Network predicted the modern outrage-media cycle decades early. See why it still ranks among the best films of the 1970s: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/best-1970s-movies/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=prophecy #Shorts #Network1976 #PaddyChayefsky #MediaSatire #ClassicFilm
Hard, cello, or a literal branch. The three types of cookie grips use to break up light, and the shadow each one throws. Our film lighting techniques guide: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/film-lighting-techniques/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=threecookies #Shorts #FilmLighting #Cucoloris #GripLife #Cinematography
Chris Stuckmann reviews Cursed, starring Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg, Milo Ventimiglia, Joshua Jackson, Shannon Elizabeth, Portia de Rossi, Derek Mears, Judy Greer, Scott Baio, Craig Kilborn. Directed by Wes Craven.
A scene can be one shot or it can be a hundred. What you shoot on the day decides what the edit is allowed to do. Subscribe to StudioBinder Academy ►► https://bit.ly/sb-ad StudioBinder Blog ►► http://bit.ly/sb-bl Try Higgsfield ►► https://higgsfield.ai/ ───────────────────── Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:45 - Scene Coverage Explained 02:53 - No Coverage 05:00 - Locked Single Take 06:58 - Dynamic Single Take 09:22 - Minimal Coverage 10:45 - Standard Coverage 11:57 - Extra Coverage 13:26 - Deep Dive 16:03 - Final Thoughts ───────────────────── What is coverage in film? Coverage is the set of shots captured for a scene that an editor can then assemble into a finished sequence. It is one of the few decisions on a film set that is simultaneously creative, logistical and financial — and it is the decision that quietly determines what the movie can become in post. The guiding question is simple: how many different ways can the editor construct this scene? In episode 20 of The Shot List we walk the full spectrum, from scenes with no visual coverage at all to scenes covered from a dozen setups or more. We start at zero. Jonathan Glazer opens The Zone of Interest over black, letting score dissolve into the diegetic sound of Auschwitz before a single image arrives — an instruction to the audience to listen first. Zero Dark Thirty opens on the audio of 9/11 before showing anything. And Derek Jarman’s Blue is a feature-length film with no coverage whatsoever: a single plane of International Klein Blue, a form Jarman had wanted to make since 1987 as an homage to Klein, and which became, by the time he shot it, a vessel for his own illness and failing sight. The single static shot ties the editor’s hands and makes composition and blocking carry everything — nearly every scene in Roy Andersson’s Songs from the Second Floor works this way, staying dynamic through deep focus and staged movement rather than cutting. James Benning’s RR lets each train set the length of its own shot. Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman makes you feel time pass, and insists that the daily gestures of a woman deserve the same frame a car crash would get. Then the single dynamic shot, where the moving camera becomes its own editor — Joe Wright’s U-Bahn one-take in Hanna, and the Juilliard scene in Tár, where the camera only moves when Lydia moves and the whole construction is designed so you never notice it. Then minimal coverage in Eric Rohmer’s The Green Ray and Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, and the tight, interiority-driven coverage of Bergman’s Persona. Then standard coverage — master, mediums, close-ups. And finally extra coverage, in Mad Max: Fury Road. We close on the same scene — two people, a conversation — handled every way on the spectrum, from The Matrix and Before Sunrise to The Sixth Sense, The Master, Raging Bull and Highest 2 Lowest. On paper they are identical. The coverage is what sets them apart. The received wisdom is that more coverage means more options. The trap is treating coverage as insurance against indecision. More shots do not assemble a better scene. Every setup costs time, and on a set time is money, so every one of them should be there for a reason. #FilmTheory #VideoEssay #Filmmaking ───────────────────── ♬ SONGS USED: Intriguing Possibilities — The Social Network Le Risque — Gerald Olivieri Change Will Come — Adi Goldstein Tyler & Johnny Are Falling in Love — Point Break soundtrack Baby, It’s You — Smith A Beautiful Walk Through an Industrial Wasteland — Ensemble et al. Always Thinking of You — Richard Bodgers Bosporous at Night — Danijel Zambo Learning to Fly — Ben McElroy Touch of Evil – Soundtrack Suite — Henry Mancini Duel – OST / Film Soundtrack Mouthwash De Menthe Hanna — The Chemical Brothers Cycles — Tobias Voigt The Godfather – Apollonia It Catches Up With You — The Social Network Rock ’n’ Roll (Part 2) — Gary Glitter You Make My Dreams — Daryl Hall & John Oates The Sixth Sense – Photographs Mad Max: Fury Road – Survive It’s Just a Dream — Ambient Boy The Matrix – Main Title / Trinity Infinity The Payback — James Brown Complex World — All Good Folks Music by Artlist ► https://utm.io/umJx Music by Artgrid ► https://utm.io/umJy Music by Soundstripe ► http://bit.ly/2IXwomF Music by Music Vine ► http://bit.ly/2IUE0pT Music by MusicBed ► http://bit.ly/2Fnz9Zq ───────────────────── SUBSCRIBE to StudioBinder’s YouTube channel! ►► http://bit.ly/2hksYO0 Looking for a project management platform for your filmmaking? StudioBinder is an intuitive project management solution for video creatives; create shooting schedules, breakdowns, production calendars, shot lists, storyboards, call sheets and more. Try StudioBinder for FREE today: https://studiobinder.com/pricing — Join us on Social Media! — Instagram ►► https://www.instagram.com/studiobinder Facebook ►► https://www.facebook.com/studiobinderapp Twitter ►► https://www.twitter.com/studiobinder #film-theory, #video-essay, #filmmaker
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Chris Stuckmann reviews Never After Dark, starring Moeka Hoshi, Kurumi Inagaki, Kento Kaku, Tae Kimura, Bokuzō Masana, Mutsuo Yoshioka. Directed by Dave Boyle.