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.

 

Terry Gilliam's Do it Yourself Animation Show

Cut outs GALORE! How to...from the Monty Python animator.

12 Principles of Animation

The 12 principles of animation were introduced by Disney's animators, Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas, in their book 'The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation'. Published in 1981, it is widely considered to be the best animation book of all time.
Here are some great online videos that summarize and teach these principles:

1. Squash & stretch
2. Anticipation
3. Staging
4. Straight Ahead Action & Pose to Post
5. Follow Through & Overlapping Action
6. Slow In & Slow Out
7. Arcs
8. Secondary Action
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration
11. Solid Drawing
12. Appeal

 This guy has an entire series of videos, one for each principle.



 And from TED:

Audio LISTS!

Studio 4D's first assignment: The Audio List
Examples can be found here:

• Transom: A Showcase and Workshop for New Public Radio: Shortlists page 
• Third Coast International Audio Festival: The List Show

For more experimental audio and audio storytelling check out:
UBU Web;Transom.org; ThirdCoastFestival.org; Re:Sound are great places to start.
Cowbird - "a public library of human experience," they offer "storytelling tools, designed to encourage contemplation and depth — for free, and without ads"

RE-editing, remixing footage

Oh the joys of re-editing footage to make it say something completely different...

There's the re-mix of George Bush's State of the Union speech to Congress:

There's the old favorite: "Honey Badger." A remixed nature documentary.


And then there's the popular film clip of Hitler (from the film, "Downfall")  finding out something tragic.  There are many...

Audio LISTS!

Richard Serra's list of verbs, 1967

Some links to Audio LISTS!  (For Studio 4D)

Chris Burden's "Atomic Alphabet"

Third Coast Audio: "The List Show" - To do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts.

Jim Metzner's "Sound Memories"

Alice B. Toklas' "Recipe for Hashish Fudge", 1963

Prelinger Archives - repository for downloadable ephemera films

All royalty free, no copyright needed to use these.
An amazing collection of historical educational movies, ads, news, etc. from the 20th century.

Archive.org is here.

From "Duck and Cover," a film about what to do about an atomic attack.