PickVidsBest Filmmaking & video production Videos
The 39 Filmmaking & video production videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 1 intermediate, 36 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a video. What they share is that the subject is shared, but the approach changes from title to title. Channels you will keep seeing include Every Frame a Painting, IanHubert, Blender.
Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
Every Frame a Painting analyzes how Jackie Chan stages action comedy, with nine principles such as starting from a disadvantage, using the environment, clear shots, and keeping action and reaction in the same frame.
"NO CGI" is really just INVISIBLE CGI - 1
VFX supervisor Jonas Ussing examines what studios mean by "no CGI", showing how much invisible CGI hides behind practical-effects marketing.
Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement
An Every Frame a Painting video essay on how Akira Kurosawa used movement, weather and composition to tell stories.
Vancouver Never Plays Itself
A video essay from Every Frame a Painting about Vancouver, a major film production city that almost never appears onscreen as itself.
Blender Motion Tracking - Room Transformation!
Ian Hubert shows how to use Blender's motion tracking to turn ordinary footage of a room into a stylized digital environment for an indie film.
Michael Bay - What is Bayhem?
An Every Frame a Painting video essay on Michael Bay's style, 'Bayhem', covering his camera movement, composition, color and editing.
Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
An Every Frame a Painting video essay analysing how Edgar Wright creates visual comedy through framing, camera movement, editing, sound effects and music.
MEETING THE ENEMY A feminist comes to terms with the Men's Rights movement | Cassie Jaye | TEDxMarin
Documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye explains how making The Red Pill led her, a feminist, to reevaluate her assumptions about the Men's Rights movement.
Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009
Stargate Studios' 2009 virtual backlot reel shows before-and-after shots in which green screen and compositing replace locations in ordinary TV dramas and comedies.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (Part 1 of 7)
The first of seven parts of RedLetterMedia's long review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda's First Action Movie (English Subtitles & Video Joker) - Wakaliwood
Who Killed Captain Alex is Uganda's first action movie, made for under $200 by Nabwana IGG in Wakaliga.
Salad Mug - DYNAMO DREAM, Ep1
The first episode of Ian Hubert's Dynamo Dream series, a one-person sci-fi short made in Blender with a gritty futuristic city setting.
HBO Intro - Behind the Scenes
A 1983 behind-the-scenes film about making the HBO 'Feature Presentation' starship logo sequence.
Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't)
RocketJump Film School argues that we only notice bad CG while great CG is invisible, so CG seems to be everywhere ruining movies when it often is not.
Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time
A video essay from Every Frame a Painting on animator Satoshi Kon and his editing style, which distorts and warps space and time.
The Greatest Shot In Television
A one-minute clip from James Burke's 1978 BBC series Connections in which he walks past a Saturn V rocket and a timed take-off happens behind him in a single shot, with no green screen.
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - Reality TV Editing
A clip from Charlie Brooker's BBC show Screenwipe showing how reality TV uses editing to manufacture emotion and narrative.
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch Camera E-8
Raw 500 fps footage from Camera E-8 on the launch tower for the Apollo 11 Saturn V liftoff, transferred in HD from the 16mm original.
The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian Season One
ILM shows how The Mandalorian season one used a large curved LED wall to display interactive 3D environments in camera.
World's Fastest Camera Drone Vs F1 Car (ft. Max Verstappen)
Red Bull and the Dutch Drone Gods follow Max Verstappen's RB20 F1 car around Silverstone in a single FPV shot using a custom drone that accelerates to 300 km/h in about four seconds.
How Star Wars was saved in the edit
A video essay on how the editors of Star Wars: A New Hope recut and rearranged the footage to rescue the film.
Why 'The Mandalorian' Uses Virtual Sets Over Green Screen | Movies Insider
Insider explains how The Mandalorian replaced green screens with LED walls that project real-time 3D environments behind actors, with over half the show filmed on such virtual sets.
Blindsight Sci-fi Short Film
A five-minute CG sci-fi short film by Danil Krivoruchko, based on Peter Watts's novel Blindsight.
HYPER-REALITY
Keiichi Matsuda's short concept film depicting a future where physical and virtual realities have merged and the city is saturated with media and advertising.