Wow. This was a masterpiece of a video essay. Thank you for making this, it introduced me to concepts I had never heard of before. You are gifted, please continue to create at your leisure, with this level of quality, the views and subscribers will come. Phenomenal work.

Love your essay ❤

Accurate and inspiring commentary.

Wonderful piece. Thank you.

WAS THAT AN OUTSIDERS REFERENCE?!

Yes, but often Roger Ebert never understood what he was talking about nor did he understand the films he was criticizing. I think he’s someone who would have something go in one ear and out the other.

What a gem

This is so calming 😊

It has a lot to do with digital cameras and workflow. Film needs light, there is a threshold below which everything is black. Digital is great in low light. There is also an effort to turn the image sad and depressed. Very likely because colorful is considered cheesy (which it isn't always).

This video okok but the movie for which this is made not good.

Well, this is an interesting video, but I don't think it's correct. Talking about "underexposure" for these various movies is a bit too much. Some of these scenes are perfectly exposed shoot, with some gimmicky touch in the color correction section, shadows, contrast mainly == this is what we call the cinematic tone, it's widespread. For what regards GoT and the nocturnal battle is only a matter of HDR, I've rewatched the movie recently in the blu ray version, it was crystal clear (note that I've watched it in a OLED tv), and HDR is literally giving new life to a lot of these older movies that came out in VHS: you mentioned The Godfather, but have you watched finally The Matrix? OLEDs are a key instrument to enjoy these kind of movies, especially with HDR10+ and Dolby Vision.

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Oh wow, this is such a hidden gem of a channel.

We don’t

Speak for yourself dude I love dreams, Black Moon, being confused by movies, and Lost Highway!

Will you upload more videos like this? I seriously enjoy your content. I just found your channel a few days ago.

Well, it's certainly selling a lot of OLED TVs so you can see at least some details in the shadows but you really have to make to room pitch black and can't see your snacks anymore. I've been in too many movie theatres where it was objectively too dark and lacking color. Couldn't see much of Stranger Things Season 3 either because we only had curtains and the moon was out. It's not helping that Netflix compression removes a lot of shadow detail. Dear TV makers: Please add controls for "shadows", "highlights" so we can get it into a sensible range that the TV and environment can actually handle. Dear actors: Stop it with the mumbling! We viewers haven't learned the script and the bright subtitles are overpowering everything else. Do ADR on set right after the scene is shot until the boom operator gives you a thumbs up. Dear audio editors: Microphones have gotten way better in the last decades. I know digital cameras are loud with the fans and everything but adding ambient noise right in the vocal range and over-aggressive noise gates that cuts into the spoken words isn't helping.

Thanks for this. Explains my life’s work.

cool but i didn't see the comedy. nice job tho

I think the main problem is that dreams are basically free association without reality testing. As such they are often incoherent, with illogical (but fluid) transitions between environments and surreal occurrences accepted as totally normal. With a few exceptions, movie makers almost never get this right and often make dream sequences far to linear and rational, like just another scene in the movie with a slightly different color filter.

I actually think the switch to digital is the problem, because on film, even if you underexpose you have to HAVE TO light Everything is still planned and measured But digital gives some safety nets And then you trust a fantastic Monitor more then your light meter and even if the image is then brightened up in post, the lighting is flat and uninteresting Willis and John Carpenter also were shaping there darkness very deliberately

A channel with a few thousand subscribers doing such quality service. Amazing!

I love Film Noir.

I love black and white it's the best

God bless her. That's all I 'm saying. She's an inspiration . Thank you for this video. To the producers at HBO...I mean...wtf?

How is this only have 12k view? Very good content here

Hey. Loved this short film! Loved the shots and the atmosphere. Very creepy! Just got to say I like the films that you're doing. Keep going at it. If you want, can you check out my films? I would love another filmmaker's opinion on them especially my newest one. Thanks so much!!! Keep making films!

Beautiful short film, very well acted and directed.

This has got me feeling like Shoplifters or Kajillionaire, nice work!

your work on sound and editing is great to give the feeling of dissociation

overthinking

As a photographer, i can't stand the way filmmakers of underexposing their movies so bad. If you want the chiaro/scuro effect like Caravaggio did with his paints, just enhance contrast between highlight and shadow and stop underexposing everything like a bad photographer without knowledge of light.

I love her movies Red Road and Fish Tank

very well done. Andrea Arnold has been my favorite director since her shorts. she is a true visonary.

Well done. Yes, it has gone too far in some shows. I can see the actors and action in The Godfather and Noir films. I could barely tell what was happening on the Underground Railroad TV show. When it happens, I say, "turn on the lights" even a little would help understand the story.

I watched this video hoping to understand my liking to the use of darkness in video and film and how I feel an aversion to anything that looks too bright (and flat). I am surprised to find that not a lot of people like it and while I can understand that it can look "too dark" or there's too much "flatness" to warrant a dark aesthetic. I'm no expert or professional filmmaker, I'm still learning about staging and and color grading but I honestly don't know how you can make a film that overly bright or underexposed look appealing without looking awkward unless you're using an actual film camera from the 60s.

Uncannily beautiful. What a lovely and apposite phrase. Thank you for the insightful, engrossing video.

Today I learned in a youtube video with no tangible thesis or argument, perhaps even ethereal and dream-like in script and production is that the reason we hate dream sequences is because audiences are uncultured swine and not because they’re lazy writing

Why? It's a shitty fad. That's why. They can't tell a story, so they under-expose to pretend that is "art", or "real", or "moody", or whatever they hell they pretend to have. It's called compensation for lack of talent.

The difference was that back in the day, they did great low light scenes but they kept the highlights and contrast. Now they underexpose it, then add a blue filter, removing all color then reduce all contrast, and you get uselessness mud. Its nothing like how light works in real life. Everything doesn’t look blue at night in real life like it looks in every movie these days. It’s still a mystery for me how Hollywood thinks this is a good idea.

I hate them because they're so often masturbatory indulgences on the part of the director. It's their chance to show off how profoundly inspired their symbolism is. This is the case more often than not. Ebert had it dead on when he said Lynch gives no consideration to the audience. If you think of film as art to be experienced and not necessarily enjoyed this might not seem to be an issue, but to me films should be entertaining first and foremost. It should never be a boring slog. Different strokes. Really high quality production for such a small channel, very nice.

I’m 65 and despite my love of shadow and underexposure, I feel that too much of this sensibility is overused. Also, as an element of aging, seemingly gratuitous use of the approach can mean that my eyes have to work too hard, and can make a difference as to whether I will finish watching a film or not.

Eh….I never understood the obsession with obtaining total realism in movies and think it’s gotten especially ridiculous in recent years. As the light sensitivity of film and now digital sensors have increased exponentially, the art of lighting a film has been completely lost to time and these dumbass filmmakers don’t know what the hell they’re even doing. I’m of the opinion that limitations are actually a wonderful thing in the creative process. Limitations give birth to innovations. When film speeds were slower, filmmaking REQUIRED the use of artificial lighting, and along the way they learned how to create any look with lighting. Painting with light. But as I said, ultra realism has never mattered to me. I’ll take a dazzlingly bright jewel-toned Technicolor print over this garbage any day.

I had no idea prop money was a contentious issue. Thanks for a great essay.

Hey! I really like your short movie! I am sorry that you didn't manage to fulfill your dreams and I hope you will be fine! At least you have tried!

♥️Tati is poetry in comedic motion ❤️

In that first description of symmetry, you ignored the fact that the man in presumably in charge was seated normally, whereas the to gents to either side of him. side were seated al a lower level, and in chairs which limited posture and mobility. That's addressing something quite different.

Just a high browed way of saying movie makers dont give a damn about the audience and just making whatever they want.

Thanks so much for this video, Andrea is probably my favorite director and a big inspiration for my work, so it's super interesting to watch breakdowns like this! 😊

This is underrated af, what the hell