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Australian musician/critic Dan Golding made a response video essay to our Marvel video. It is phenomenal. Please watch it. There are so many things in here that we wanted to say but couldn't figure out how to include in our video. It is so great to have people respond like this and keep the argument going. Go enjoy it!

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This video essay is a response to the Every Frame A Painting video, 'The Marvel Symphonic Universe': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs Should film ...

And here's the second new #everyframepainting for you. Definitely go watch the other video first, since this one doesn't make sense without it. This video by Brian Satterwhite, Taylor Ramos, and me. Enjoy!

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This is a supplementary video for THE MARVEL SYMPHONIC UNIVERSE, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs And here’s a new Twitt...
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Guess what? There's two new #everyframeapainting episodes for you today (made by Brian Satterwhite, Taylor Ramos and me). This is the first one, about the music of the Marvel Cinematic Universe & the modern blockbuster. Enjoy!

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There’s a second, supplementary video you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfQ_9DIItI And a new Twitter account about temp music we made here...

Hello, here's the new #everyframeapainting (co-written/co-edited by Taylor Ramos) about my job - the weird and wonderful craft of editing. BTW, this video is on Vimeo AND YouTube but has a high chance of getting taken down from YouTube (b/c of the length of clips). So just be aware in advance, folks. Cheers!

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/tonyzhou/editing
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3eITC01Fg

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For the past ten years, I’ve been editing professionally. Yet one question always stumps me: “How do you know when to cut?” And I can only answer…

Enjoy the new #everyframeapainting about the Coen brothers, their lens and editing choices, and the positives of shot/reverse shot. Also, enjoy that this video is several weeks late for the release of Hail, Caesar! Anyway, have fun with it, is what I'm saying.

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How do you film a conversation? Most likely, you’re going to block the actors, set up the camera, and do shot/reverse shot. But where do you put the camera? ...

Have a new #everyframepainting to ring in the New Year, folks. This time it's about Bong Joon-ho's 2003 masterpiece Memories of Murder, and the craft of ensemble staging. Enjoy and Happy Holidays!

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How do you emphasize to the audience that something is important? Well, you could always cut to a close-up, but how about something subtler? Today I consider...

Sorry for the hiatus. Life is unexpected. Anyways, here's the new #everyframeapainting, about visual comedy and the legendary Buster Keaton.

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Before Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson, before Chuck Jones and Jackie Chan, there was Buster Keaton, one of the founding fathers of visual comedy. And nearly 1...

This is a long time coming. #everyframeapainting looks at how my hometown, the city of Vancouver, is portrayed onscreen in film and television.

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Perhaps no other city has been as thoroughly hidden from modern filmmaking as Vancouver, my hometown. Today, it’s the third biggest film production city in N...

Hello everyone. it's been a while. Here's the new #everyframeapainting about Chuck Jones, director of over 200 Looney Tunes cartoons. Instead of talking about framing and editing, I talk about the evolution of a single artist. Enjoy!

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If you grew up watching Looney Tunes, then you know Chuck Jones, one of all-time masters of visual comedy. Normally I would talk about his ingenious framing ...

Happy Friday. Here's a new (and very weird) episode of #everyframeapainting in which I talk about chairs! Wait, what?

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One of the great things about detailed production design is that it pays off in unexpected ways. So today I explore the weird possibilities of that most comm...

What can one poetic detail tell us? I would argue: everything. The new #everyframeapainting breaks down the style of the great Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. Enjoy folks.

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What can one detail tell us about a scene? If you’re Lynne Ramsay: absolutely everything. Today I consider the poetic possibilities of cinema and one of our ...

I've waited a long time to tackle Orson Welles' F for Fake, one of my favorite films and IMO the greatest essay film ever made. Today I break down what it has to teach us about structure. Enjoy!

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If you want to make video essays, there’s no better film to study than Orson Welles’ 1973 masterpiece, F for Fake. There are a million lessons to take away f...

Hello Internet. Here’s a brand new 8-minute #everyframeapainting about Akira Kurosawa and composing movement. Enjoy.

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Can movement tell a story? Sure, if you’re as gifted as Akira Kurosawa. More than any other filmmaker, he had an innate understanding of movement and how to ...

Surprise! Two new #everyframeapainting in a week! What?!? Yeah, this is another short one on Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (2011), and its particular quadrant style of composition. Enjoy!

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One of the many pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” (2011) is that the shots feel both tightly composed and weirdly unpredictable. Even though most o...

A quick new #everyframeapainting on the geometry of a scene from Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well. Another short one's coming soon but in the meantime, enjoy!

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One of Akira Kurosawa’s many gifts was staging scenes in ways that were bold, simple and visual. I’m working on a longer essay about him and this piece didn’...

I just wrapped the Reddit AMA after four hours. Thanks to everyone for participating. If I didn't get to your question, feel free to ask me on Facebook, but maybe give it a few days? I'm tired. Read the AMA here: http://www.reddit.com/…/i_am_tony_zhou_creator_of_the_ever…/

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First off, thanks to your mod bulcmlifeurt for putting this together. So I am Tony Zhou. I’m a filmmaker and freelance editor based in San...