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Every Frame a Painting is dedicated to the analysis of film form.
Season 1
8.7/1016 votesSatoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/24/2014
Four years after his passing, we still haven't quite caught up to Satoshi Kon, one of the great visionaries of modern film. In just four features and one TV series, he developed a unique style of editing that distorted and warped space and time. Join me in honoring the greatest Japanese animator not named Miyazaki.
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8.7/1028 votesJackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/2/2014
Some filmmakers can do action. Others can do comedy. But for 40 years, the master of combining them has been Jackie Chan. Let’s see how he does it. The 9 Principles of Action Comedy 1. Start with a DISADVANTAGE 2. Use the ENVIRONMENT 3. Be CLEAR in your shots 4. Action & Reaction in the SAME frame 5. Do as many TAKES as necessary 6. Let the audience feel the RHYTHM 7. In editing, TWO good hits = ONE great hit 8. PAIN is humanizing 9. Earn your FINISH
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8.5/1035 votesEdgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/26/2014
If you love visual comedy, you gotta love Edgar Wright, one of the few filmmakers who is consistently finding humor through framing, camera movement, editing, goofy sound effects and music. This is an analysis and appreciation of one of our finest comedic voices.
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8.4/1019 votesA Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/15/2014
Is there a better way of showing a text message in a film? How about the internet? Even though we’re well into the digital age, film is still ineffective at depicting the world we live in. Maybe the solution lies not in content, but in form.
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8.2/1031 votesDavid Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/1/2014
For sheer directorial craft, there are few people working today who can match David Fincher. And yet he describes his own process as “not what I do, but what I don’t do.” Join me today in answering the question: What does David Fincher not do?
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7.8/1025 votesMartin Scorsese - The Art of Silence
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/14/2014
Even though Martin Scorsese is famous for his use of music, one of his best traits is his deliberate and powerful use of silence. Take a glimpse at fifty years of this simple technique from one of cinema's masters. SPOILERS for Shutter Island (2010), Superman (1978) and Man of Steel (2013)
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7.7/1027 votesThe Spielberg Oner - One Scene, One Shot
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/6/2014
One overlooked aspect of Spielberg is that he's actually a stealth master of the long take. From Duel to Tintin, for forty years, he has sneakily filmed many scenes in a single continuous shot.
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7.5/1027 votesMichael Bay - What is Bayhem?
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/3/2014
There are filmmakers we love and then there's Michael Bay. Even if you dislike him (as I do), Bay has something valuable to teach us about visual perception. This is an exploration of "Bayhem" — his style of camera movement, composition and editing that creates something overblown, dynamic and distinct.
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