Mise-en-Scene: How Are Movie Worlds Created? To tell you a story, a movie relies on settings, props, actors, blocking, costumes, makeup, and lighting—all of which exist independently of cinematography, editing, and sound design. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how...
Cinematography: How Do Movies Guide Your Eyes? When you watch a movie, the images before you may seem like objective views of the world. But they are not. In fact, those images are purposefully constructed and then put onscreen—to guide your eyes where the director...
Editing: How Do Movies Link All Those Images? If you hold up a piece of film stock, you’ll notice a series of images, one slightly different from the next. So how do those hundreds or thousands of separate images that comprise a movie ultimately make sense and then,...
Why Is Movie Sound So Powerful? A dinosaur’s roar, a dancer’s tap shoes, a lightsaber’s hum: each of these sounds conveys meaning in relationship to its accompanying image—respectively, terror, talent, and anticipation. If you’re interested in learning how such sounds...
A Brief History of Hollywood Film. Explore the evolution of Hollywood cinema in this hour-long lecture, tracing the industry’s journey from its humble beginnings to the 1980s. Specifically, you’ll dive into three eras of Hollywood’s history: (1) early cinema and the...
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