Sound Design-Apocalypse Now - in images

Apocalypse Now - Ghost Helicopter Flyover from Unidentified Sound Object on Vimeo.

Every Frame a Painting - great critiques of film techniques

Here's one about director, David Fincher (House of Cards), and his various rules for directing.

 

Kuleshov Effect

The original Kuleshov Test, showing how editing/juxtaposing a single shot (man's face) with different objects/scenes changes our reading of that shot.

Pudovkin's 5 Editing Techniques

Really nice explanation of different editing techniques with great examples:

Pudovkin's 5 Editing Techniques from Evan Richards on Vimeo.

Ken Burns talks about STORYTELLING

Documentary film maker Ken Burns talks about his formula for a great story, 1+1=3. His directing credits include: The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The National Parks.

Ken Burns: On Story from Redglass Pictures on Vimeo.

The "Ken Burns Effect" is now part of most video editing software.  Many examples of panning or zooming in on a photo in this first episode of "The Civil War"

Walter Murch, Sound design of THX 1138

Some great videos on this page from the THX 1138 DVD extras.  Murch explains how he designed the sound for George Lucas' first film. 

One sample:

"Shot by Shot" editing examples

In David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's book, "Film Art: An Introduction," the chapter on "The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing" describes several different types of edits.  The student authors of this BLOG explain and give some good examples of:

• graphic relations between shot A and shot B
• Rhythmic relations between shot A and shot B
• Spatial relations between shot A and shot B
• Temporal relations between shot A and shot B
  
  and more!

Storyboards-some examples

Good web resources:

• Stanford's Tutorial here 
• Storyboard basics - OSU
• YouTube storyboard channel
• Awesome Storyboards from 15 of Your Favorite Films - Flavorwire

Hitchcock's storyboard for Psycho, 1960

Walter Murch - Sound Design for THX1138

Creating space with sound. Some terrific insights.

Walter Murch discusses "Apocalypse Now"

Film editor Walter Murch discusses his approach to sound design for Apocalypse Now. Go to 34:45

Walter Murch: "The Rule of Six"

Walter Murch, the amazing film and audio editor (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient...and many many others) explains what makes an edit work:

Walter Murch: The 'Rule of Six' in Film Editing from Imaginox on Vimeo.

Star Wars Uncut!

Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.

Wikipedia says: Star Wars Uncut is a 2010 fan film remake of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It is a shot-for-shot recreation of the 2004 "Special Edition" re-release of the film made from 473 fifteen-second segments created and submitted from a variety of participants...

Many of the sequences are filmed in deliberately crude, low-budget or otherwise comical manners, and the actors do not always resemble the original cast. One scene is a stop-motion sequence using Lego Star Wars figurines^. Another mimics the animation style of the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine.

The result is amazingly smooth, visually delightful, and hilarious.

Star Wars Uncut won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Media on August 21, 2010.

Check it out!

Hitchcock explains film editing/assembly

The master of editing explains 3 different approaches.

Christian Marclay's "The Clock"-24 hour film

This recent piece by the British artist, Christian Marclay, is a 24 hour video collage that uses thousands of film clips that reference each minute of the day AT THAT MINUTE as it plays in the museum/gallery.  Amazing!

"The Hours" A terrific article about Marclay from the New Yorker (03.12.2012) by Daniel Zalewski

The BBC takes a quick look: