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Five of our favourite shots from proto-feminist, insane-stunt-riding, wild wild Western Woman They Almost Lynched.
Reframing on the Fly
The camera starts on a basic wide outside, then as Jesse James (Ben Cooper) plays a quick trick to...
Week 26.37 - Socials Roundup DISTORTED IMAGES
Week 26.37 posts include shots from The Tarnished Angels (1957); a couple different looks from The Masque of the Red Death (1964); The Crow (1994); and Girl 6 (1996).
Girl 6
Spike Lee experimented with this technique for a large porti...
How To Transition #006 - Echoes around a Match Cut - PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
When you’re considering a screenplay and making a shotlist, there are simply so. MANY. scene transition possibilities.
You can cut from a wide to a closeup, or the other way around; you can J-cut, or its reverse the L-cut; you can match cu...
Making Stairs a Character: THE HAUNTING
All this week on socials, we’re looking at distorted frames, and The Haunting (1963) is filled with them.
Director Robert Wise wanted many shots to look unnatural and disturbing; he and DP Davis Boulton shot Panavision anamorphic widescre...
Week 26.36 - Socials Roundup JUMP CUTS
Week 26.36 posts include shots from LOST (2004-2010); Hot Fuzz (2007); The Bletchley Circle (2012-2014); The Brutalist (2024); and Peter Hujar’s Day (2025).
The Brutalist
We speculated on the origin of this cut in Five Shots: The Brut...
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