- Every Frame a Painting
The original “Every Frame a Painting” was a series of video essays about film form, made from April 2014 to September 2016. We officially announced the end of the channel in December 2017.
- 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 ensemble staging — a style of filmmaking that directs the audience exactly where to look, without ever seeming to do so at all. NO SPOILERS.
- Terry Pratchett (allthetropes.org)
Fantasy author (1948-2015). A Knight Bachelor (i.e. Sir Terry Pratchett OBE), he’s been described as the most shoplifted author in Britain (belying an American critic who once claimed that he hadn’t found his audience).