Film Tone - Filmmaking Techniques for Directors: Ep1

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[@StudioBinder]

Glad you found us! What aspect of visual storytelling would ya like us to cover next?

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[@cameraman_cez9343]

You know when I first started making shorts.. I thought all you need to know was about 3 things. Shutter speed, ISO, and F-stop plus maybe some audio tools, boom poles, lav mics, etc etc, and a good message to tell.

[@OneMeInMyself]

This is so well done! I love the examples. I feel so inspired to take my filmmaking to the next level 🔥

[@MassiveSuccessVids]

Outstanding video especially as I'm preparing to direct a film. I'll be using this to help me communicate my tonal vision. Thank you.

[@StudioBinder]

That's awesome. We have a series of new videos slated for release every week. Also make sure to grab the free Film Tone worksheet here: www.studiobinder.com/visual-storytelling-film-tone-examples

[@shubhamkaul1367]

Good luck man.

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[@LeandroKindermann]

Very good! I'd like to point out Michael Hanneke's remake of Funny Games which subverts this techniques using very bright cinematography and art direction to create tension and uneasiness.

[@StudioBinder]

Spot-on! And totally, every rule can be broken.

[@esdrascalvino4548]

Midsommar is a very good exemple as well!

[@philipepinheiro4369]

great video! i learner a lot! thanks! my only suggestion would be to eliminate the low background music, especially on the shining part

[@sarasofia503]

Lighting is basically how a scene is illuminated, lowering the brightness or putting low or high contrast or shadows. The Art Direction is to use different shades in the costumes, props to provoke the emotions and sensations that want to be transmitted according to the scene. ATT: Sara Garcia

[@bertimunro]

This is a fantastic breakdown on these techniques!! BRAVO! on to Ep2

[@ravienne3156]

Thank you. This helped me a lot for my Media exam

[@omeralkan7908]

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[@CelestialMelody]

Those techniques really gave a good punch~

[@Mattnova_116]

Star Wars vs. Empire Strikes Back is a great example of contrast in light. Notice how different those classics are? Exactly.

[@ashb9254]

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[@StudioBinder]

thank you! glad you enjoyed it

[@moviemagic1138]

Pretty good video, but I feel you are only covering half of the equation. You are only covering tone in the finished look of the film and not talking about the more crucial element of the tone of the story. The worst offenders of tone confusion are usually not ones who screw up the proper lighting but the tone of the story. For instance if your film is really lighthearted and meant to be a fun comedy, but then one of the main characters is brutally murdered and the rest of the film is about revenge and has zero jokes from that point on. Now, shifts like this can be pulled off, but the point I'm making is that consistency of story tone is a must! A good example of great story tone would be Hot Fuzz. It's a comedy but ends in a super action shoot out. It works for a variety of reasons but one of which is that they are constantly foreshadowing the action to come and even shoot the film in more the style typically used for an action film instead of a comedy. However, a bad example would be the riverboat scene in Willy Wonka. This scene is so inconsistent with the feel and tone of the rest of the film that it stands out like a sore thumb. And, even though it is rightfully hailed as a great movie, pretty much anyone you talk to will acknowledge how strange and out of place that scene feels in comparison to the rest of the film. The best rule of thumb is, never do anything that would be seen as out of place with the story you are trying to tell unless you can somehow write in a convincing justification for doing so. TL:DR: Good explanation of tone in the look but story tone is really where the battle is won or lost

[@philipepinheiro4369]

nice comment! said it all, taugh us something (at least me) and was not rude etc. thanks!

[@turquoisesorcerer]

Parasite recently pulled of a pretty crazy tone shift...

[@KishoreKumar-vk6sh]

Thank u . Learned something better

[@rajapalamittam7530]

Great elucidation

[@Kurosawa3]

When I clicked the video, I thought it was going to be tone related to story. You broke down thoughts for many who were expecting tone related to story rather than look.

[@RunaroundAtNight]

If anyone wants a reference, you can read The Visual Story by Bruce Block. The chapter on tone is basically this video.

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[@StudioBinder]

Glad you like them!

[@firstblessings8777]

This is no different from literary analysis that names all the devices employed by an author, but in reality, in the process of crafting the work, none of this is really thought about. It mostly boils down to instinct most of the time on how a director/writer envisages a scene or scenes. I remember in doing my very first short of just being committed to my guts and my eyes.

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It is good work with more information, pls upload many videos----thanks

[@FireballJumper]

0:47 the background of "art direction" is looking kinda sus...

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[@Zbigniew87]

What about anything that relates to sound? How about colors? You quote matrix but didn't mention the main aspect which created that mood, which is the main tint of the movie. Nice intro but very noninclusive definition.

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Picky picky

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It sure packs a punch!

[@pontoespacial]

Great video!

[@prrajil007]

Bro, you forgot to mention the importance of DI(Digital Intermediate) process.. Nowadays we can't imagine a visual tone preparations without DI. Great Cinematographer+ Production Designer+Colorist makes a film visually stunning...

[@tarkantruman430]

Ok. How we use shot and editing technique on our scripts?

[@avenidanostalgia]

excellent video! make more videos like this please!

[@StudioBinder]

Glad you enjoyed it! This is the first video from our visual storytelling series, with a lot more in the works. Stay tuned. :-)

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1:43 which movie it is, please tell.

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Raging Bull (1980)

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may i ask you that what app you use at 05:43?

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What video should we make next?

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[@PRO_67198]

Can you do the same with stanley kubrick's the shining and doctor sleep

[@ogharlyd]

does anybody know what movie 0:43 was

What scripting app did you use at 5:45?

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5:13 which movie??

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what is the movie name in 5:50

[@KinoMalek88]

So tone is brightness? But also saturation, lighting, exposure and art direction? The definition of brightness at the beginning of the clip is incorrect. It put me off the whole thing.

[@Narmatonia]

4:25 I thought you said this was The Shining not Passengers?

[@MilitantTalker]

thanks for that!

[@KoncsosErvin]

The Matrix is strikingly green.

[@OSRProduction]

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How can a channel about film crop movies from their original ratios?

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How to down loud u r app .please explain sir

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Explain emotions scenes how to create a movie

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4:49 Was that Walter White from Breaking Bad??🙄🙄

[@StudioBinder]

Haha yup! That's Bryan Cranston in "Malcolm in the Middle" before he landed the "Breaking Bad" role.

[@shadowridgetv6594]

At 5:06..... How the heck are you going to make it almost all the way through a great, educational video, then right at the end make it inappropriate for school?

[@jonseyjones321]

Bringing down the saturation is the worst way to do black and white, and definitely is not showing "how bright or dark really is." The values are completely different.

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[@pardumansinghactor7545]

Wow..

[@jeffspinner6579]

Wait a second, bruh. Tone if it means brightness, or Luminance, is completely different from Saturation or Desaturation. There are three dimensions for matching things like when I make Photoshop images to put people in compromising positions or match clips of films: Hue, Saturation and Luminance. Hue, like always green tinged with Neo is in the Matrix, and blue tinged when in the "real world," yada yada yada. I mean if there wasn't the in vogue bs about color grading stuff, because color correcting takes 30 secs with scopes, no one really would be seeing any off color pics, like the current, everything is brown like a turd, "dark" movies. That's a LUT, bruh. That takes 3 seconds, if you don't have a good file system to find stuff.

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[@martykeaton182]

I prefer the Chris Reeve Superman. No offense to the cast and crew of Man of Steel. Who's with me?

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1) nice cherry picking on Man of Steel, as if you couldn't pick any day shot 2) funny how "happy" Superman above is when Superman literally witnessed Lois dying in his arms while "sad" Superman is the one learning fly for the first time

[@bigdogboos1]

Unreal how much better Superman character is when he's bright. He's supposed to be a hopeful symbol, kind, and compassionate ... not batman dark.

[@deadman-zc5ro]

he was in MOS

[@TheBlond49]

Superman was hopefull and bright in MoS, the world around him was dark.

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"Same character" lol

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