Shot Zero: pithy posts on shot design
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Stunt Breakdown: DEATH IN BRUNSWICK
Just before this 1990 Australian indie, Sam Neill starred in Dead Calm (incredible) and had his first massive foreign film role with The Hunt for Red October. Around the corner were The Piano and Jurassic Park. His signing on to Death in Br...
Week 26.25 - Socials Roundup RACK FOCUS pt3 Animation
The last two weeks we looked at rack focuses in live-action, from mind-bending mirror racks and pulling attention to wedding rings, to repeated rack to bees and hyper-close gun-trigger-pulls.
Animation uses this technique, too, even thoug...
Texas Switching a Stunt: HOW I MET YOUR FATHER
Whether you can’t afford a stunt performer, or a stunt isn’t safe for a human, or you just don’t care if the body looks like a rag doll, you can choose to use a mannequin as one half of your Texas Switch, like How I Met Your Father does in...
Various Uses for Minimal Light: HELL DRIVERS
This 1957 truck-driver-noir (part of a whole subgenre) is gorgeously shot.
In these two scenes, sparse practical lights, accentuated with minimal off-screen lights, are used to different dramatic effects.
Light Bulb In a Cage
In a sc...
Week 26.24 - Socials Roundup RACK FOCUS pt2
Last week we looked at five rack focuses; this week, five more!
Week 26.24 posts include shots from Now, Voyager (1942); Blue Steel (1989); The Host (2006); Hated in the Nation (2016); and Good Cop Bad Cop (2025).
Blue Steel
Blue St...
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