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Avery Dohrmann is a filmmaker who wrote for us back in 2023 about making his debut feature, Our Final Days in Paradise, at 20. He's back with a video essay on visual literacy, and...
Blocking is one of those invisible and maybe not-as-glamorous aspects of filmmaking. It's the choreography of where your actors stand, if and when they move, and how the camera fra...
You know the feeling: a professor assigns an analytical paper, and your mind immediately jumps to a film you could talk about for hours. Maybe it is Get Out, Barbie, The Social Net...
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The film industry is built on dreams and taking hard hits when crap hits the fan. We live in an age where... The post Above The Line first appeared on Film Threat.
Words by Lizzy Tan. Film is tricky. The medium always reveals a philosophy about looking – about how the viewer should relate to the subject on screen. More often than not, the ‘ma...
We talk a lot about how you shouldn't be on the nose in your writing or direction. For the most part, that means not having your characters deliver their exact feelings or telling...
1973 was a pretty major year for film, in general. Films like Mean Streets, Serpico, Fantastic Planet, and The Sting, among others, are still hailed as all-timers by today’s standa...
“Did you hear the news? They’re tearing our building down. Making way for the future, They don’t want no relics around.” –... The post Once Upon a Time in a Cinema first appeared o...
Given the option, most of us would probably jump at the opportunity to shoot something on film stock. There's just something about the color, the depth, the grain, the jitter that...
If it’s for the sake of art, surely there are lines that can be crossed? In Meta Take One, co-directors John Dierre... The post Meta Take One first appeared on Film Threat.
The everyday viewer probably only notices cinematography when it's flashy, but the fundamentals carry the story.A recent video from StudioBinder Academy is built on Joseph V. Masce...
A lot of people associate point-of-view perspective solely with video games. Yet we filmmakers know it as one of the mighty narrative tools since the early days of cinema. It break...
Martin Scorsese has made some of the most meticulously composed images in American movies. I mean, have you seen the Copa tracking shot? What about the stark black-and-white drama...
Suspense thriller short The Scene from writer/director Daniel Meyers has detective Daniels (Brian May) investigating the kill site where his partner was... The post The Scene first...
Someone knocks at the door of your Airbnb in the middle of the night. The internet is down, the phones are dead, and an oil tanker ran itself aground a few scenes earlier. Things a...
With Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey causing a lot of commotion at the box office, there's another movie that was also shot on film that's currently playing in theaters. [Read More...
From Oscar winners to blockbuster spectacles, some of the most talked-about films have earned as much criticism for seeming pretentious as they have praise for being profound. The...
Every filmmaker has probably watched a scene and thought, I don't believe a single person in this room actually exists.Cinematographer and director Spenser Sakurai has a name for w...
Kodak is the only major manufacturer of color motion picture film left in the world, and at the 2026 Academy Awards, three out of five Best Cinematography nominees and five out of...
There were several major events from around the world that could be seen as important context behind the ten essential movies of 1981.The Berlin Wall marked its twentieth anniversa...
What makes 'Obsession' work? See the 15 beats of Curry Barker's box-office smash in a detailed story structure analysis for writers The post <i>Obsession</i> Beat Sheet...
A good movie teaches viewers how to wait. In Jaws, the beach looks calm until John Williams tells you otherwise. In Rear... The post Examining Chance, Suspense, and Reward Loops Ac...
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