13min clip - How Kubrick, Spielberg, and Inarritu Stage their Scenes using blocking (how characters move thru a scene & interact with their environment) and staging (placement and movement of the camera in relation to blocking)

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1min 14sec clip - Jurassic Park but with a Cat

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4min 35sec clip - #first and #final movie scenes - part 2

First and Final Frames Part II from Jacob T. Swinney on Vimeo.

text from source site "After numerous requests, I finally decided to create a sequel to "First and Final Frames". Part II plays the opening and closing shots of 70 films side-by-side. Like the first video, some of the opening shots are strikingly similar to the final shots, while others are vastly different--both serving a purpose in communicating various themes. The side-by-side comparison can communicate an entire story, but also allows us to develop new theories about a given film. So once again, what can we learn from examining the first and final frames of a film? My deepest thanks to everyone for the praise and support on the first video! 

View Part 1 in 8th Nov 2020 post 

MUSIC: "Together We Will Live Forever" by Clint Mansell 

Potential SPOILERS for the following films: 

Sunshine 

Snowpiercer 

Biutiful 

21 Grams 

The Prestige 

All is Lost 

Take Shelter 

The Impossible 

United 93 

Vanilla Sky 

Ex Machina 

Inside Llewyn Davis 

Dead Man 

Mystery Train 

Melvin and Howard Fury 

Full Metal Jacket 

A Clockwork Orange 

Eyes Wide Shut 

Eraserhead 

The Elephant Man 

The Fall 

The Thin Red Line 

The New World 

Road to Perdition 

Snow Falling on Cedars 

The Bourne Ultimatum 

The Imitation Game 

Flight 

Hard Eight 

Inherent Vice 

World War Z 

Wild 

The Double 

The Machinist 

Born on the Fourth of July 

Brideshead Revisited 

Maps to the Stars 

The Skeleton Twins 

Mommy 

A Scanner Darkly 

10 Years 

Milk 

Lost Highway 

Boxcar Bertha 

Badlands 

Ghost Dog

The Way of the Samurai 

Ratcatcher 

Ida 

Raise the Red Lantern 

Gattaca 

Kundun 

Bringing Out the Dead 

A Most Wanted Man 

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 

The Social Network 

Jack Goes Boating 

Submarine 

Half Nelson 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless 

Mind 

Babel 

Django 

Unchained 

True Grit 

Vertigo 

Oldboy 

Apocalypto 

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 

Gladiator 

Mad Max: Fury Road 

World's Greatest Dad

5min 26sec clip - #supercut of #first and #final movie #scenes - part 1

found via a boingboing email 

text from source site "What can we learn by examining only the first and final shot of a film? This video plays the opening and closing shots of 55 films side-by-side. Some of the opening shots are strikingly similar to the final shots, while others are vastly different--both serving a purpose in communicating various themes. Some show progress, some show decline, and some are simply impactful images used to begin and end a film. 

MUSIC: "Any Other Name" by Thomas Newman 

Films used (in order of appearance): 

The Tree of Life 00:00 

The Master 00:09 

Brokeback Mountain 00:15 

No Country for Old Men 00:23 

Her 00:27 

Blue Valentine 00:30 

Birdman 00:34 

Black Swan 00:41 

Gone Girl 00:47 

Kill Bill Vol. 2 00:53 

Punch-Drunk Love 00:59 

Silver Linings Playbook 01:06 

Taxi Driver 01:11 

Shutter Island 01:20 

Children of Men 01:27 

We Need to Talk About Kevin 01:33 

Funny Games (2007) 01:41 

Fight Club 01:47 

12 Years a Slave 01:54 

There Will be Blood 01:59 

The Godfather Part II 02:05 

Shame 02:10 

Never Let Me Go 02:17 

The Road 02:21 

Hunger 02:27 

Raging Bull 02:31 

Cabaret 02:36 

Before Sunrise 02:42 

Nebraska 02:47 

Frank 02:54 

Cast Away 03:01 

Somewhere 03:06 

Melancholia 03:11 

Morvern Callar 03:18 

Take this Waltz 03:21 

Buried 03:25 

Lord of War 03:32 

Cape Fear 03:38 

12 Monkeys 03:45

 The World According to Garp 03:50 

Saving Private Ryan 03:57 

Poetry 04:02 

Solaris (1972) 04:05 

Dr. Strangelove 04:11 

The Astronaut Farmer 04:16 

The Piano 04:21 

Inception 04:26 

Boyhood 04:31 

Whiplash 04:37 

Cloud Atlas 04:43 

Under the Skin 04:47 

2001: A Space Odyssey 04:51 

Gravity 04:57 

The Searchers 05:03 

The Usual Suspects 05:23

4min 22sec @cinefixnetwork clip - How an #Opening #Scene Tells the Whole Story

Text from youtube "Fede Alvarez, director of The Girl in the Spider's Web, talks about opening scenes. How do you set up a scene that needs to set up the entire movie? He discusses everything from lighting to make up to camera movement in a brand new clip he shared with us."

5min 21sec clip - a journey through #dance and other scenes from 1980s movies

found via laughing squid

6min 22sec #looper clip - #Filmmaking is a tricky business. The Most Expensive #Deleted Scenes Filmed

Text from you tube 

"Filmmaking is a tricky business. It's a long journey from the script to the screen, and a lot of great and not-so-great scenes get left on the cutting room floor, costing the studio time and money. Here's a look at some of our favorite films whose deleted scenes came at a high price — creatively and financially... 

World War Z's darker final act | 0:18 
Rogue's scenes in X-Men: Days of Future Past | 1:42 
The original tragic ending of Little Shop of Horrors | 2:30 
The Jitterbug dance number from The Wizard of Oz | 3:33 
Returning to Krypton in Superman Returns | 4:27 
Eric Stoltz's scenes from Back to the Future | 5:21 "

1min 31sec clip - 3rd Annual New York City #Drone #Film Festival - March 18th & 19th 2017

6min 38sec clip on how to #film an epic #battle scene using #LOTR 's Helm's Deep 40 minute scene

found via boingboing

4min 43 secs on 20 #Movie Scenes Before and After Visual #Effects added

found via sploid

2min 25sec clip on film #scenes taken from #art - maybe

found via sploid

films that stole footage from other #films

found via digg