- 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.
- The Hobbit (Wikipedia)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction. The book is recognized as a classic in children’s literature and is one of the best-selling books of all time, with over 100 million copies sold.