Directing Carousel · 9 slides
Staging in Depth: How Great Directors Use the Whole Frame
Seven films show how directors arrange actors in layers so one frame can carry action, reaction and meaning at once.
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Filmmaking
The craft behind the screen, discipline by discipline.
Disciplines
- Directing Turning a script into performances, pictures and rhythm.
- Cinematography Light, lens and movement: how the image is made.
- Screenwriting Structure, character and the architecture of a scene.
- Editing Where the film is found: rhythm, continuity and meaning in the cut.
- Sound Dialogue, Foley, music and the uses of silence.
- Acting Performance, preparation and playing to the lens.
- Production Design Building the world: sets, props, palette and period.
- VFX Compositing, simulation and the invisible digital work.
- Color Grading The final look: contrast, palette and mood.
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Directing Carousel · 9 slides
Dramatic Irony: When the Audience Knows More Than the Hero
Dramatic irony gives the audience a secret the characters do not share, turning ordinary scenes into suspense.
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Episode 4: Screenplay Format
Nobody reads a script written like an essay. Learn the five elements of a screenplay page, the 1 page ≈…
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Episode 3: Characters
Audiences come for the story, but they remember the character. Learn Want, Need and Wound, give our auto driver a…
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Episode 2: Story Structure
Why does the whole theatre roar at the interval bang? It isn't luck, it's structure. Learn the three acts, the…
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Episode 1: Idea vs Story
An idea is a situation. A story is a person who wants something and faces an obstacle. Learn the three…
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Directing Carousel · 9 slides
Directing the Reveal: Control What the Audience Learns, and When
A reveal is not just written, it is staged, framed and timed by the director to decide what the audience…
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Color Grading Carousel · 9 slides
Color Grading: Painting Emotion After the Shoot
Color grading turns correctly exposed footage into a feeling, separating worlds, tracking storylines and guiding the eye without a word…
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Screenwriting Carousel · 9 slides
The Inciting Incident: The Moment Your Story Really Starts
How the inciting incident breaks the hero's ordinary world and forces the choice that drives a screenplay.
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Cinematography Carousel · 9 slides
Lighting for Mood: Contrast and Softness
How key-to-fill contrast and the hardness of light shape the emotion of a shot, with examples from The Third Man,…
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