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We talk shot design - because shot design isn’t just how it looks and feels, it’s how it works. www.shot-zero.com Produced by Stu Willis & Mel Killingsworth
In Girl 6, Spike Lee uses a distinct shift in look (colour, angle / blocking, film grain) and feel (different wardrobe, different set dressing, Theresa Randle as Judy leaning into the Blaxploitation vibes) to signal this shift into a film Judy stars in . . . if only in her head.
melkillingsworth.substack.com/p/coffee-and... The scene is iconic, for this and a dozen orher reasons.
Coffee and Noir: THE BIG HEAT
every scene of coffee in noir films - 002
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TCM Party@tcmparty.bsky.social · yesterdayFritz Lang kept Grahame out of frame when Vince hurls the coffee—a censorship-minded choice that made the violence more horrifying by forcing us to imagine it. #TCMParty #TheBigHeat ^JW
Parks and Recreation 2.01 “Pawnee Zoo” airs several segments of “Pawnee Today”, which use two different look to show when we’re watching the main mockumentary, and when we’re watching the show being aired within that show. 1/3
What a beautiful bit of work to make this animated-show-within-an-animated-film for One Hundred and One Dalmatians. The style is similar but different, the greyscale coloring and TVframe around it make clear what we're watching, and the expressiveness of every pup's eyes is simply delightful.
this series on 'shots of time in The Bear' has been one of my other favourite, hyper-specific, only-slightly-obsessive studies the last few years so here they are: the final shots of how this series depicted time, and how every second of it counts
Shot Zero@shotzero.bsky.social · 3d agoAll things must come to an end, and that includes our series looking at every shot of time-keeping mechanisms in The Bear. shotzero.substack.com/p/the-bear-a...
All things must come to an end, and that includes our series looking at every shot of time-keeping mechanisms in The Bear. shotzero.substack.com/p/the-bear-a...
It’s not a movie poster, but it is a reference to a movie-making legend, so we're counting this painted sign for SCHOONMAKER’S PAINTER’S SUPPLY STORE in Age of Innocence for our movie-posters-in-movies week.
BoJack Horseman's classic animal puns pop up everywhere, including riffs on classic Hollywood posters, such as Frisky Business, Catsablanca, and His Squirrel Friday.
Rhonda Fleming in The Spiral Staircase by Robert Siodmak (1946)
Cinephile friends! I'm looking for more examples of scenes from movies that use a clever piece of Actor Blocking for a reveal or a moment, like this great bit from What's Up Doc?
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) looks at a photo of her mother, which is next to a prominent Kiss Me Deadly poster. Both films open on a highway drive (with KMD’s opening an iconic one of the genre), both involve stabbings and an imposter and a big explosion. To say more would give away too much.
Our post today is about transitions which use match cuts in very different ways around characters [see the substack, or link below] - Widow’s Bay does a version of this in episode 6!
Today we look at a very specific kind of match cut, and what it says about the characters on either side of the big change. open.substack.com/pub/shotzero...
Check out this incredible use of movie poster in Life on Mars. When Sam Tyler (John Simm) first meets his big boss Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister), we see a High Noon poster through Gene’s office window. #LifeonMars 1/2
This was so fun I've already started another list of iris shots, from live action to animation, from classical cinema to modern television, coming next month to @shotzero.bsky.social near you shotzero.substack.com/p/week-2630-...
Week 26.30 - Socials Roundup IRIS SHOTS
collapsing the frame into a small circle (or oval, or square)
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers had only just come out when Abel Ferrara was shooting King of New York, so it’s possible this was simply a poster still hanging around the shoot location. But Ferrara use it (along with deliciously eerie red lighting) to set a MOOD.
On his way to the shops, George (Colin Firth) parks against a wall-sized movie poster of Psycho, starkly watching him, all painted in yellows and blues. #ASingleMan 1/2
In an 11-second scene from The Fast and the Furious (2001), a car explosion is showcased through three overlapping edits across five shots. After Brian and Dominic flee, the blast is shown repeatedly - from Dom's perspective, head-on, and high-angle - stretching time to highlight the levitating car.
Our penultimate course is up!
Shot Zero@shotzero.bsky.social · last wk.How does #TheBear mark time in its final season? We look at clocks, reservation systems, bottle stamps, news reports, and more, from the first four episodes which count the seconds to the end. shotzero.substack.com/p/the-bear-a...
How does #TheBear mark time in its final season? We look at clocks, reservation systems, bottle stamps, news reports, and more, from the first four episodes which count the seconds to the end. shotzero.substack.com/p/the-bear-a...
If you're looking to get more David Jonsson in your eyeballs, we HIGHLY recommend Rye Lane, which is great fun, looks rad, and knows exactly what it's doing framing him with various halos (and a few 'halos'). shotzero.substack.com/i/148321935/...
The shots in Scott Pilgrim go fast, and this iris shot is no exception. In addition to a visual hat-tip to the graphic novel, the iris shot immediately makes clear that Knives Chau is talking not about Scott or G-Man, but about Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) . . . 1/2
Looney Tunes play with iris shots in plenty of ways, from changing shapes to opening two iris ‘portals’ which to pass items back and forth after the scene has presumably ended Here, Foghorn Leghorn simply will not I say will not shut up until the iris shot closes around him . . . and even then!
Monday, we looked at the first several iris wipes from The Acolyte; here are the rest. (and be warned, some of the circular transitions in the post open and close on heavy spoilers)
Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood uses two iris shot transitions every episode: first as Trolley goes into the tunnel to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, then again when Trolley comes back out into Mr Rogers' living room. 1/2
#Film89ShotOfTheDay No.3176 The American Friend (1977) Director: Wim Wenders Cinematographer: Robby Müller
When Flipper (Wesley Snipes) wakes up, he finds Angie (Annabella Sciorra) is gone — the iris shot emphasizes how alone he feels, and also provides a visual counterpoint to the ‘zoom out’ which opens the scene.
