Directing Carousel · 9 slides
The Long Take: Directing Without a Cut
How directors use unbroken shots to build tension, show power and trap us inside a moment, and when a long take is the wrong choice.
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Alfred Hitchcock
The Kuleshov Effect: The Emotion Isn’t in the Face — It’s in the Cut
A Soviet filmmaker put one blank face next to three different shots, and audiences saw hunger, grief and desire. Here's…
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The Dolly Zoom: How One Camera Move Makes the World Tilt
The camera moves one way, the lens zooms the other, and the face in the middle never changes size. Everything…
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