Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement

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Strong rec _hardwaregeek · 2019-09 · on “Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (2017)”

What I love about Every Frame a Painting is the depth of its research. It's quite clear that the creators had an extensive knowledge of film. The videos always include wonderfully selected interviews with the filmmakers that emphasize the point far more than just a person talking. The Deakins interview in Shot | Reverse Shot taken from Cinematographer Style is a nice example^[1]. Or Sidney Lumet's interview in the Kurosawa video^[2]. Taking from film criticism solidifies the video's arguments, creates an amazing rhythm to the videos (Tony and Taylor are clearly great editors) and also prevents the "annoying person endlessly lecturing to me about film" feeling that I get with some other chann

Strong rec Daub · 2020-06 · on “Akira Kurosawa’s hand-painted storyboards”

If you havne't already done so, check out the wonderful commentary by 'Every Frame a Painting': [this video] (Composing Movement) [LINK] (The Geometry of a Scene) I don't normally recommend YouTube channels for film commentary, but this channel is very good indeed.

Recommends yarapavan · 2019-04 · on “Ask HN: What are the most educational,interesting or insightful vids on YouTube?”

Selected Twitter responses: - Why Planes Don't Fly Faster, [LINK] - Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement, [this video] - Richard Hamming: "Learning to Learn", [LINK] - Rise and fall of Third Reich, [LINK] - The men who built America, [LINK] -History of the World, [LINK]

Recommends SAI_Peregrinus · 2022-02 · on “Over-reliance on CGI in movies”

I think we're sort of aggressively agreeing with each other. It's not the CGI (or lack thereof) that makes the modern superhero films bad (except as a sort of demoscene-with-infinite-budget visual spectacle where they're great). It's the writing. To a lesser extent the cinematography is poor, which makes it hard to really feel what's going on. There's lots of unnecessary camera movement, frenetic jump cuts during fights, and all the colors are dull and muted. Every Frame a Painting has a good video on Kurosawa's use of movement in his films, and actually uses The Avengers as a contrasting example and how the cinematography & direction makes the scene in question feel meaningless.[1] So I agr

Recommends keiferski · 2023-08 · on “Can’t Hear the Dialogue in Your Streaming Show? You’re Not Alone”

Part of this, I think, is also the shift to dialogue-based scripts. It reminds me of this excellent Every Frame a Painting video that compares Kurosawa’s effective use of movement with the barely-moving, dialogue-driven Avengers films. A huge percentage of films/shows today are what Hitchcock called, “photographs of people talking” and aren’t actually cinematic. If they were more cinematic, hearing every line of dialogue wouldn’t be as important to understanding the story. Start at about 4:25: [this video]

Cites vanderZwan · 2017-11 · on ““One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for Speech (2016)”

I think the main issue with Prezi-style presentations is that it demands too much skill to use properly. A better interface with sensible defaults and much less emphasis on wow-factor would help a lot here. Normal powerpoint "only" requires a basic awareness of composition and narrative coherence, which already is too much to ask in practice. To make good Prezi presentation you need to have the skills of a cinematographer/editor. Specifically, the skill of continuity editing[0] so your audience can follow what is going on. What we want is the calm, easy to read compositions of, say, Yasujirō Ozu or Wes Anderson, and Akira Kurasowa's sense of movement[1][2]. Instead everyone uses it in a way

Cites rrauenza · 2018-11 · on “The Art of Film Grain [video]”

I just watched the Kurosawa one the other night: [this video] When I just read Spielberg's quote, >The grain is always moving, it’s swimming, which means that even in a still life, let’s say a flower on a table, that flower is alive even if it’s not moving. it made me think immediately of what was said about Kurosawa, except that Kurosawa used weather/environment instead.

Cites Daub · 2025-05 · on “Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow”

As an artist and designer (with admittedly limited AI experience), where I feel AI to be lacking is in its poverty of support for formal descriptors. Content descriptors such as 'dog wearing a hat' are a mostly solved problem. Support for simple formal descriptors such as basic color terms and background/foreground are ok, but things like 'global contrast' (as opposed to foreground background contrast), 'negative shape', 'overlap', 'saturation contrast' etc etc... all these leave the AI models I have played with scratching their heads. I like how Veo supports camera moves, though I wonder if it clearly recognizes the difference between 'in-camera motion' and 'camera motion' and also things l