"Nope" Analysis & Breakdown - Gordy, Fake Clouds, and Night Scenes Explained

[@StudioBinder]

Chapters: 00:00 - Making of Nope 00:58 - Jordan Peele's vision for Nope 01:31 - Cinematography 03:46 - Shooting Day for Night 05:39 - Visual Effects 06:35 - Gordy Explained 08:07 - Wrap up/Takeaways

[@suzygirl1843]

Nope and The Woman King are my favourite films this year.

[@rushikeshlatpate3636]

can you please make video on indian filmmaker anurag kashyap and vikramaditya motwane

[@deltron4608]

Maaaaaaan I cant believe all the nights scenes werent even shot in night that completely floors me how convincing filmmaking has got in

[@themoviecritic1092]

Aw so they weren't? 🥺 It would've been more impressive if they were 😔

[@TomEyeTheSFMguy]

@@themoviecritic1092 why?

[@akshayhere]

I mean it was clearly apparant that it was day for night shot. However it's the cleanest and the most effective one I've ever seen.

[@themoviecritic1092]

@@TomEyeTheSFMguy Valid ratio

[@themoviecritic1092]

@@TomEyeTheSFMguy Idk, lmao

[@nayeebG]

That night scene done in day light bit was mindblowing. This was one hell of a spectacle for me. Easily one of the best done by Jordan Peele.

[@StudioBinder]

One of the modern techniques that will push cinema!

[@sudimara7731]

I remember Vsauce3 talked about it in Could You Survive The Movie Mad Max episode (at 22:11) about shooting during the day then color grading it to look as if it was night.

[@solidsnake58]

Just saw Nope and I'm kicking myself for not seeing it in the theater. The day for night cinematography was completely authentic and immersive. It took me back to summer nights on my grandparents farm.

[@hii9918]

Christopher Nolan was once, in all praise of Hyote van Hyotema for his dedication to the work. He said Hyotema would carry large IMAX cameras on his shoulder to shoot the scene, so that he could get a better angle of the scenes. Both Cinematography, and VFX is top- notch in Nope. Please cover the work of Darren Aronofsky, Emmanuel lubzki .

[@StudioBinder]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@DoctorLoudonclear]

Definitely among my favorite movies of the year, so I’m really glad to see y’all break it down!

[@StudioBinder]

Just listened to the requests ;)

[@kingsevil5255]

I've seen so many terrible "we're pretending its night time" scenes (Sorry HotD and Raised by Wolves.) and Peele's was so good I genuinely didnt clock it. Damn. That is extremely impressive.

[@StudioBinder]

Top tier filmmaking technique!

[@africanhistory]

Well Peele did nothing he hired someone to do it. If u had the money u could hire the same dude

[@ssssssstssssssss]

@@africanhistory So props to Hoytema!

[@TodayInHistoryNO]

I didn't watch the video because I haven't seen NOPE yet, but I muted it and let it play because I love this extremely educational channel and I want to support it in any way I can. Keep up the insanely good work you're doing!

[@StudioBinder]

Appreciate the support :)

[@Califraska]

This was FASCINATING. I wish NOPE were still playing on an IMAX screen here in the PHX area so that I could go back and experience this knowing what I’ve learned here.

[@StudioBinder]

Hopefully they'll do re-runs soon!

[@МаксимЗырянов-г7д]

The sound in this film, is worthy of a long, standing ovation. Thanks to Johnnе Barn !!!

[@StudioBinder]

Cheers to the whole cast and crew 💯💯

[@gabrielesimone1372]

this movie is truly Jordan Peele's masterpiece

[@StudioBinder]

and he's just getting started!

[@noahsauder]

Ok how they shot that night scene was brilliant!

[@anchitsharma5079]

that forced perspective bit was really great to know .

[@srikeshpillai]

Monkey sequence was Extremely haunting, and the movie itself is 🔥🔥🔥 peele❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@StudioBinder]

One of the best parts of the movie!

[@DrewTrox]

Nope has the best kind of VFX, cinematography, and directing, the kind so good and subtle you don't even notice it. Letting you get immersed in the world of the film. Also, in regards to writing, Nope is a masterclass in setup and payoff. Everything gets resolved in neat little packages, which is so satisfying.

[@clsimon6]

Hands down the best channel on this platform for anyone even remotely interested in films. Never stop!!! Product is just as first class too!!!

[@StudioBinder]

🙏🙏

[@theoneandonly4268]

This is exactly what cinema needed 🙌🏻

[@StudioBinder]

Got to keep pushing it!

[@tturnquest1]

Nope is probably the best film I’ve seen in the cinema. The experience of seeing it in IMAX was breathtaking.

[@StudioBinder]

Definitely a spectacle!

[@davidmacdonald2075]

Another great work by this filmmaker. This was truly a cinematic treat.

[@StudioBinder]

Well worth a watch!

[@MrMejia187]

One of the best movies and experiences ever. This is one of my new favorite films

[@StudioBinder]

Definitely worth a watch

[@tomfinlay9821]

i have to say nope was an absolute blast. i was able to watch it in imax and man this was an unforgettable experience to me, also because this was the first and only time they showed the movie in imax. my movie of the year so far and jordan peeles best as well :D also great video once again :)

[@StudioBinder]

Must have been a great experience!

[@alapandas6398]

Watched it in cinema hall, absolutely stunning experience.

[@StudioBinder]

Must've been great!

[@TheWrathfulSlayer]

You guys should do a video on Hoyte Van Hyotema!! The guy is a stellar cinematographer!!

[@StudioBinder]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@antonioangelo4492]

Wow you can see the high quality craft with the clouds, the night and the monkey things. They combined some physical effect with the technology, experimenting and trying to bring the best results.. Then many other movies use only the easy way, like technology used to make the work faster, without a critical thinking behind. I think that movies from directors who do these things are the ones who will be remembered for a long time, whereas many others will last only few years before they'll be considered old.

[@StudioBinder]

Got to appreciate it when filmmakers push the boundary

[@re1]

This channel is a gem

[@sustainablemarco]

This gives a whole new meaning to the film’s use of “Sunglasses at Night” 😎

[@StudioBinder]

it's a cool technique!

[@LycanVisuals]

Saw this three times in IMAX. Well done Peele and Hoyte.

[@StudioBinder]

🔥🔥

[@themoviecritic1092]

One of the best movies this year fr

[@StudioBinder]

It's up there!

[@zsyhan15]

We all know that future movies will be using the same technique moving forward regarding their night scenes. Well done Nope cinematographer.

[@madhavkrishnan9251]

I went to watch nope with my friend once it released in my country, which was about a month after the US release. Boy was it unique, it sure was a ride!!!

[@StudioBinder]

🙌🙌

[@electrojones]

Starting the video with "Sunglasses at Night" playing in the background and following that later with day-for--night shots was great fun. Thanks for your videos.

[@chiefwitz7547]

NOPE is not a movie dedicated to Syfy lovers, it's a movie dedicated to filmmakers, and why movie making is pure love.

[@StudioBinder]

filmmakers and film-lovers!

[@Hiyaaydi]

I just discovered Key and Peele and was pleasantly surprised knowing Jordan directed Get Out and then Nope

[@tylerpurrden]

He also did Us, and you definitely need to see Keanu as well

[@bolshevi3187]

wow really? 😂 that was one of the main reasons why Peele's rise as a director has been so impressive (especially horror) because he came from that background.

[@StudioBinder]

Enjoy the skit binge 😂

[@vitorgracia5113]

Also, all these techniques were implemented in a very meta-aware plotline, with ample discussions as to the relation of media, exploitation and legacy. I found the layers of these very rich.

[@StudioBinder]

It's all very naunced

[@bqgin]

Nope is probably the best african american film I watched. Seeing how much dedication went into making it makes me like it even more. Congrats! I hope his next film will amaze me even more.

[@mentlinc]

I never thought about it racially like that but yeah you are right especially for the sci fi/horror genre. Nope is one of my favorite movies ever.

[@noname-jm7tu]

I feel as though Jordan Peele originally intended 'NOPE' to be called 'Don't Look Up', but Netflix beat him to the chase lol

[@StudioBinder]

haha the ads does look like it

[@chocotoasties2671]

I love this movie so much. It was horrifying but but funny and heartfelt.

[@StudioBinder]

definitely worth watching!

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

I dearly love this channel and am so thankful that I found it!!!! 🤗🥰🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@miguelfmyers]

My favorite film in the last couple of years

[@StudioBinder]

👍👍

[@peterproductions5015]

YESSSSSS! I loved this movie so much, it’s one of my favorites of the year.

[@StudioBinder]

It's a fun ride

[@hbm7350]

This movie was awesome! It’s good to see a filmmaker who is known for comedy also an amazing thriller director. This is a great way of filmmaking that we should all take note of

[@STIMULAT10N]

Watched it last night and got completely creeped out, this analysis came on time.

[@StudioBinder]

Hope it helps!

[@marciosallem]

It's always nice to think how different aspect ratios can produce different subjective relations to the film.

[@SCENEPHILE]

I love how studio binder answers all comments

[@chengrayos9272]

Your break detail breakdown is a spectacle itself!

[@Infinite8film]

have you guys done a video on scoring horror or types of horror sounds and best ways to use music to build tension and suspense and set up for jump scares and so on??? love all of your content i binge it everyday!

[@andyturner3056]

Really enjoyed this movie. Had such a gripping atmosphere.

[@Prabzs123]

This is one of them films where the mystery is better than the payoff.

[@StudioBinder]

Fair point

[@indiecinemaster4699]

Truly magical day-for-night techniques, but even with laser precision, the same shots you showed aren't perfectly aligned. But, that's the best we can do, since there literally no way for two cameras to be in the same spot at the same time...

[@StudioBinder]

Yeah it was pretty close!

[@indiecinemaster4699]

@@StudioBinder I think it's actually better that it doesn't match completely. It adds an artistic touch to how everything is lit in those scenes.

[@Miguelvillaloboss]

We loVe studio binder out here

[@StudioBinder]

Love our viewers :)

[@Vijay-fn8hd]

Watched the movie and loved it a masterpiece indeed A good surprise you guys made a video for this movie

[@StudioBinder]

we had a lot of requests!

[@jmalmsten]

btw. If anyone is curious, there's the documentary series Night on Earth on Netflix that shows just how far actual nighttime cinematography has gotten lately. There are shots there that make a moonlit night look like high noon. Though I guess those cameras kind of top out at 1080p so I think Peele went with the day for night approach he did just to keep the resolution as high as possible. And by faking it, Hoyte can stop down the lens for deep focus photography. Shooting with High ISO cameras and lenses at 0.7, you otherwise start to have trouble keeping things in focus. I remember filming a feature on a 7D with lenses that could go down to f1.2 and f1.8. The director really wanted shots with the shallowest depth of field possible and I often had to ask him which eye he wanted in focus, as the 50 mm and 85 mm had such razor thin depth of field that that question (borrowed from a story I heard on the making of material of the first TRON) was a valid concern. Now imagine actual nighttime shooting with sensors as big as 5 perf or even 15 perf 70mm film... Even if you could get a usable image at ISO 25600 and T2.8 lenses at night... most of the image would be so out of focus the minute you focus on something in the foreground that you can almost not recognize where it is filmed. So Day for Night continues to have its place in the filmmaking toolbox. :)

[@StudioBinder]

Great suggestion!

[@mamiksantra2430]

Absolutely successful! These tricks and illusions, which i was not aware of thanks Studio binders, were amazing 🙌 And yeah i didn't watch this movie I experienced it. Waiting for NOPE 2

[@quatermass8]

Successful yes. I could do with another hour of behind the scenes technical for Nope.

[@StudioBinder]

we all would!

[@berbudy]

this is the only movie that I regret didn't watch it on imax

[@StudioBinder]

Definitely should!

[@kaiserwilhelmii1827]

Nope was amazing. Peele is such a creative director

[@StudioBinder]

He's on a roll!

[@TheWrathfulSlayer]

You guys should do a video on Jordan Peele!! He captures the audience in a very unique way!!

[@StudioBinder]

We'll probably do it later when he has a more extensive filmography!

[@i_so_late]

wish I lived near one of those 1.43 imax theaters, I hope they become more available in more cities at some point

[@StudioBinder]

more the better 👍

[@zacharycooper1019]

I’ve been waiting for this video!!!

[@StudioBinder]

Hope it was worth the wait!

[@farus_channel]

the night scene was impeccable!

[@StudioBinder]

You appreciate it the more you watch it

[@prodj.mixapeofficial6431]

Night scene shot at night is nothing new, but manipulation of the clouds and light source on night scenes were mind blowing.

[@rhetoric5173]

Can you do Gaspar Noe, there’sa particular movie that he was inspired by called Angst that I believe deserves its own episode

[@StudioBinder]

We might!

[@darjiap6538]

Great as always!

[@StudioBinder]

Cheers!

[@Random-zc6zk]

It was an amazing experience even in this smartphone device. So what it would have been in IMAX?!!! After a long time, this is a true immersive experience

[@TonyVic]

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

[@RapidActionAnimations]

Great breakdown. Got to watch this film.

[@StudioBinder]

You should!

[@andrewhoover2735]

Thank you so much for my recommendation

[@StudioBinder]

Thanks for watching!

[@plutus888pj]

Peele is funny & genius didn't knew he was a director

[@StudioBinder]

He's made the transition very well

[@gauripriya7423]

Looking forward for the breaking down of iconic scenes from SAVING PRIVATE RYAN...

[@StudioBinder]

we might!

[@primeminister7885]

I appreciate "how they did it" but I also would have liked to experience more movie as far as story telling goes.

[@StudioBinder]

Fair comment!

[@mikefawcett1982]

Yeah I agree. Was tedious to watch. Not very scary, not very tense. Lulled you into a sense that it was going to be really interesting, and then was not at all. Characters were unrealistic and unengaging

[@samuelvasquez974]

I knew there was something completely different going on in the night scenes. While watching the movie I thought how the hell did they get so much rich detail into those night scenes. I suspected day for night was at play, but that infrared trick gave it that edge that I hadn't seen before.

[@pedroesteves3018]

it was a nice experience ! visually stuning! cgi clouds wow i didnt knew that aahahha

[@StudioBinder]

top notch vfx

[@DavidBerglund]

Stunning visuals and sound and great performances. I couldn't help but feel a little underwhelmed by it anyway, maybe because I hoped that it'd scare the crap out of me, like Get Out and Us, and it was a very different kind of movie. I really tried to watch it with an open mind, but, yeah.. I should probably give it a second try in a year or two.

[@StudioBinder]

yeah it wasn't as much a "horror" like his last two.

[@DavidBerglund]

@@StudioBinder right. Nice break down of how it was shot btw!

[@gauravpratapsoni2224]

Great video sir 👍

[@StudioBinder]

Thanks for watching!

[@VenViz]

OJ is the man. great character

[@TheMightyCookieShow]

The mo ster in this film freaked me out hard

[@vicentecampos2893]

Another great video. I watched it in the cinema and I noticed how well shot the movie was, but to find out how the create the nightime scenes is unbelievable. It is a good film but not my favourite from Peele.

[@StudioBinder]

Definitely lot of takeaways from it!

[@channelname4513]

I want to meet your voiceover guy and the coffee is on me

[@jaisonsfavorites383]

MESMERIZING AS MORGAN FREEMAN

[@StudioBinder]

haha we'll pass it on

[@channelname4513]

@@StudioBinder tell him I say hi!

[@jermeycombs3602]

Can you Guys make 2 Videos on Camara Movement and the reason behind such as building a emotional tension, realease tension and Dramatic tension. Also, Motivational and Unmotivated Camara Movement.

[@StudioBinder]

We might!

[@akashjhanitw]

Missing old long sequence video 🥺🥺

[@StudioBinder]

What do you mean?

[@akashjhanitw]

@@StudioBinder actually we are missing the long format video like Steven Spielberg video 📷.. btw love you content dilivery

[@soylentgreen4033]

Great explaind

[@StudioBinder]

Thanks!

[@jeffreymurray1990]

excellent video

[@StudioBinder]

Glad you liked it!

[@PDKSHADES]

This is insane 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@StudioBinder]

🙏🙏

[@LincolnEllwood]

Although Nope’s story wasn’t the most engaging for me, I still appreciated the visuals and hard work these filmmakers put into achieving the scope.

[@StudioBinder]

It was an ambitious project for sure

[@nikshmenga]

Have you seen Jordan Peele's new film? Nope Yes wasn't it great?

[@StudioBinder]

😂😂

[@tavishmankash1888]

good morning, friend!

[@StudioBinder]

Morning!

[@JustsomeSteve]

A very pretty film to look at indeed. Story-wise it sadly left over a lot of loose ends.

[@StudioBinder]

Would've liked to see more how Gordy tied into the main plot!

[@JustsomeSteve]

@@StudioBinder Exactly!

[@tyshaia]

WOW! Very successful. Movie magic forreal.

[@bimoasto]

Loooveee thissss

[@StudioBinder]

Cheers!

[@FilmCritic933]

I wanted him to be more careful on the story not the way he says it. I didn't like the movie but I do like and appreciate what he has done to make it.

[@yazzieyaz740]

This movie was hella dope 🔥

[@StudioBinder]

and how they made it was dope too 🔥🔥

[@darknessincarnate138]

While watching this movie, the immersion is real I mean I watched it and it ended and I felt like it's only been few minutes

[@noahd4709]

Yep

[@StudioBinder]

Nope

[@jd5787]

How do they align the cameras 100% to get the same shot please?

[@StudioBinder]

It's closely aligned enough to the point that the final shot works

[@shramantayade3136]

There is a difference between watching and experiencing a movie 🍿🎥

[@astrosoap]

Nice.

[@StudioBinder]

Cheers!

[@1.4142]

Impressive

[@bollywoodfightactionreacti9189]

Nice video 😊📸

[@StudioBinder]

Thanks for watching!

[@SachiPathmajan]

The infrered camera was Alexa 65. You say it is 65 in the VO but the image shown has been labelled as Alexa 35

[@StudioBinder]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@cirusMEDIA]

Looking at this movie felt like i was reading a book. Certainly had a different vibe, but scary/horror is not what i would call it.

[@StudioBinder]

Yeah, the horror element wasn't as much there as his other two films. More sci-fi for sure