Rear Window is a classic movie and a technical tour de force. But it’s not the kind of technique that draws attention to itself. In this episode I look at Hitchcock’s use of the Kuleshov effect and explain the stealthy power of fundamental film technique that anyone thinking of making a video drama should be aware of.
Episode 4, Finding Nemo
Think of the paradigm for a table. Okay, you might want to make a table with three legs and a hole in the middle, but, especially when you’re working in a team, it helps to know what the archetypal table looks like as a starting point. In this episode I teach the classic story paradigm using Finding Nemo as the exemplar.