Use the Steven Spielberg "L System" to create screen MAGIC

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[@hazchem1]

Wow, you're right. I've never seen another movie with that type of camera work. Moving towards an actor, moving away, following the actor from the side, following the actor from above. True genius!

[@devanshudodke1020]

Stunned!!! just stunned, never thought/observed this way. Thank you so much Sareesh. I am learning so much from this channel.

[@purefoldnz3070]

Meanwhile Michael Bay uses the 'Napalm' system.

[@sfest5992]

Ha ha.. Dude. Michael Bay's BLOCKING and SHOT BREAKDOWN is much more complex than Spielberg! Michael Bay directs movie after Snortin 'Napalm'. Try to breakdown any of his action scenes!

[@djstarsign]

Purefoldnz 😂😂😂😂😂. We studied him in our advertising course bc at the time, he was a golden boy of the ad world. His “Aaron Burr” tv commercial (aka, the very first of the “Got Milk?” ads) is a work of genius. I was actually excited when I found out he had moved on to direct feature films. And it’s been interesting (disappointing) to see how over the top his directing style has become ever since.

[@purefoldnz3070]

Someone made a video about his directing style. In one movie there were 30 different cuts of an actor just climbing over a fence lol

[@cinewillp6391]

Also "the Unmotivated moving shot" system where the camera moves suddenly for no good reason. IE: Pearl harbor -hard crane during opening of Battle of Britain seq.

[@marshacreary2442]

Wow

[@porcupineracer2]

Thank you so much for this insight. I could never figure out why his films were so engaging but now it seems so obvious I feel bad for not realizing it myself.

[@outrageddrogba8657]

Just subscribed and blown away by the content you provide. You covered everything from Cinematographers to various Filmmaking techniques, so rich and deep content you're making man.

[@ShashankVijay]

Thank you so much to acknowledge Munich. I have had this on my mind for so long. Spielberg's one of the best camera works.

[@raavifilms1106]

I always find your tutorials helpful.. its evolving my filmmaking ability to new greater level..

[@Udhbhavana]

A new thought. So, far I''ve not thought about this. Thanks for discussing such a useful note of Steven. Very good work. Keep it up.

[@elcaballo2601]

Nice video bro. Have you noticed in spielberg scenes. One shot ends with starting of next action. And the next shot continues the action and near end of the shot starts the next action. The whole scene or movie connected like a chain. He did it frequently.

[@siddhantraje]

Wow ... What a study mate... Already following Him since long time but never got to learn so deep with suc a simplification. Lot of Hardwork. Big Thanks !!! That was helpful ! 👍🏽👍🏽

[@ojacobsen3727]

going so far as to call it a system... not sure, but it's definitely something characteristic of him, redefining space constantly through this movement type interchange.

[@unknownfilmmaker777]

The way the tripod probe pulled out of the roof always struck me as very believable, almost as if it had its own intelligence, surely not an accident. Good stuff.

[@willtobias5280]

Very insightful, this could be the key to understanding Spielberg's modus operandi

[@ruurdm.fenenga2571]

As Spielberg mentioned himself, he also was influenced by films by William Wyler and David Lean.

[@monkeyattackedmyass5435]

His biggest influence came from John Ford.

[@johnsage3466]

Great video, very helpful, I'll use this in my next video production, thank you for your insight

[@StarChildInABubble]

Awesome analysis. Really enjoyed the video.

[@postproduccion9519]

Thank you, I think the L shape is a way to optimize blocking, not so much as a recipe, but as a way of get several blocks in "one" shot. And Spielberg is a genius on that... he does that even with no L shots.

[@yokoreia]

Yes , he has a distinct style and dynamic camera moves that makes you feel.

[@ExpressiveImagery]

What a great analysis, I’ll be working this system into my future productions. Thanks for sharing. Oh, and your Shooting Dialogue Scenes course is really good and great value for money. Cheers Tony

[@shahidshivastephan6848]

God bless u one day u achieve ur goals

[@ngonzale3]

Love this. Any way I can learn from the master the better! Many thanks for your time!

[@216kingDavid1]

This is the most interesting video to watch

[@wolfcrow]

Thank you!

[@vancouverrob]

Wow! Great breakdown!

[@ecceluxlivestreams8489]

Brilliant content. Thank you for the upload.

[@swamydayanand4306]

Thank you for this Marvelous channel my friend

[@ShitsnGigglesProds]

Great video! Really appreciate the info.

[@HackMyControlSystem]

If I simply say 'thank you', you won't appreciate how much I loved this video. So, 'THANK YOU!'

[@CedrickOlausson]

Well, could it be that you always try to avoid repeating camera-movements? So therefore after you´ve moved the camera sideways you give it a push-forward. It was a brilliant deconstruction but I think it's dynamic necessity that drives him to do this pattern. I for myself have done it throughout my films

[@vicenteortegarubilar9418]

So long since I watched one of your videos. Another great work.

[@ameerally]

I like your work man!

[@SYZ]

Wow another great video. I just binge on your knowledge

[@beskidwood]

Love this video! Thank you

[@vickzzzzzzzzzzzz]

What a keen observation mate... Respect !!

[@pulkit1612]

Learning a lot from your channel.

[@jaylamb218]

Great video!!! Simply awesome!!!!! Thank you very much!!!

[@ApeLikeCreature]

I enjoyed this, thanks so much!

[@jimjiminy1929]

Great video. Well made, thanks.

[@abhijeetborade5490]

Awesome explanation

[@truefilm1556]

4:31 right after the side tracking: a zoom-in!!! And later again. Wow! After so many incredibly smooth and perfectly timed tracking, dolly and crane shots (providing enormous depth), there is a zoom. Can it be that Spielberg and his DP tried to evoke the camera style around 1972 in Munich, when a lot of movies used (and overused) zooming? Anyway: great observations and breakdown! Thanks for sharing this!

[@muhammadobaid7500]

Amazing analysis!

[@DingbatToast]

I'm not sure I like that I know this now. I'm never going to be able to unsee it! Great video though. I has made me think more about what I like about a scene

[@xlrouge]

Subscribed!!!! Great video!!

[@rabindrasasmal7445]

Enlightening like always. Can you please do a video on the long shots. Like I heard there is European style of longshot and there is American style of long shot. If you can do something in this regards. It will be very helpful. Thank-you!

[@goofyfoot2001]

I doubt he says, "ok guys, let's set up the L pattern!"

[@shahidshivastephan6848]

🤣🤣🤣

[@uknowwho5941]

Superb analysis

[@aakashsingh5427]

I love your videos Sir. Can you please make more videos on the Blockings by Steven Spielberg.

[@comment_deleted]

what movie is at the beginning of this vid?

[@markus8282]

Happily watching!

[@agoogle6454]

This channel should used in film schools 👌👍

Interesting observations. Great content, as always.

[@drpsukumaran]

Are there any books/theories about blocking please tell their names

[@balaramanand6639]

....I DON'T KNOW WHY I LOVE SPIELBERG SO MUCH ......HE NEVER ALLOWS AUDIENCES TO SPILL THEIR ATTENTION FOR A MOMENT ...LOVE U FOR THIS NEW ONE

[@ASSADZMANFILMS]

This is so awesome ,I love Speilberg ,thank you so much for sharing 👏🎥🎬

[@MaxAmmoNeeded]

What was the first movie called please?

[@ethidian3444]

I might think of it as carefully intertwining zig-zags, and when there is a halt--you notice it / it renders as important.

[@UmbrellaGent]

Very interesting. I wonder if you can find similar patterns in other directors' work. I would love to see you make a follow-up video like this.

[@markant9534]

Could he do this with a traditional action movie? I always found the camera work inmost action movies in the 80`s bland apart from Raiders of the lost ark where he used great camera work in the action scenes their but I mean movies like Rambo that had more simplistic screenplays, could this camera work have added a bit of zip to Stallone`s tired action scenes etc.?

[@TheSmeagol630]

Are you mixing framerates? I'm seeing a pattern of jitter, no jitter, a common trait of 24p playing on a 30p timeline, or the opposite (without a 3:2 pulldown).

[@elkiwi68]

Are you missing the point?

[@Darrenmcinnes70]

Another good video and very informative. Thanks and keep’em comin’!

[@djstarsign]

It took me a long time to warm up to Spielberg. I made the erroneous assumption that his films were nothing but crowd pleasing studio films. I was more excited about filmmakers like Lynch, Kubrick, Von Trier, Godard, Fellini and Tarkovsky (to name a few). One of my favorite films (in therms of cinematography) is Orson Welles’s “The Trial”. I happened to catch “Jaws” on tv a few years ago, and it’s one of those movies that I remember watching a lot when I was a kid, but this was the very first time I’d seen it as an adult and I was blown away by how brilliantly directed the film was. I began watching his films from a different perspective and his camera work is so effortless and so “perfect”. It’s been one of my favorite rediscoveries and it’s funny because for me at least, it was hidden in plain sight all along. Btw, I liked and subbed. 👍🏼

[@Scorcm83]

Same here. He became one of my favorites directors in a week of rediscovery !

[@defiverr4697]

Spielberg got lucky on Jaws. You must be new, because everyone knows this. The mechanical shark failed during filming so he changed his POV shots. The music was the movie, and Spielberg had nothing to do with that. His editors made Jaws what it was. He got lucky, and he makes bad movies all the time. He has a few bad and a lot more bad. Don't elevate him to Kubrick at all. Kubrick is another league. Spielberg makes movies because he can and wants more. He owes a me a lot of refund at the theater with his bad films. Raiders is his best action, but RAiders 2, 3 and especially 4, were meh to gawdawful, respectively. And because he is not a writer, he can't tell an emotional story when he doesn't have a good writing to begin with.

[@Scorcm83]

DE Fiverr It's your opinion, but you should see all of his movies from 1990 to 2007 and you'll see how great he is

[@deckofcards87]

I love Jaws. I also re-watched E.T. a few years and forgot just how impacting it was on me as a kid, on my imagination and emotionally. They're both on my top 20 movies alongside Raiders. There have been film directors who've made movies universally adored for good reason, because they're artistically gifted and know what audiences respond to worldwide. In that respect, Spielberg owes a lot to Charles Chaplin, Frank Capra and Howard Hughes.

[@richardbravery8410]

He got lucky with the shark, but the rest of film (which is a lot) is brilliantly made. To pull that together from the madness of that shoot is pretty incredible.

[@afi.a2732]

Amazing thanks!

[@brandonctlee]

Brilliant work as always :)

[@blinkzone1]

Do you have one on Martin Scorsese?

[@sheldonnorton9035]

Thanks for that!

[@easwerkn9527]

Sareesh Sudhakaran.. are you from Kerala?

[@apc5143]

Great and very precised observation. Combine this L system with his habit of using Long takes and all we got are some of the best engaging scenes in history of cinema. Is there anyway that i can buy The Ultimate Guide to Shooting Dialogue Scenes in India, as mentioned in FAQ on that link page, it is not available in India. Come on, that's not fair. Isn't there any other way like Phonepe, Paytm or something.

[@DanielHBuchmann]

Fucking awesome director. Glad I was fortunate enough to grow up watching his films.

[@scaredyfish]

To what extent is this an editing decision rather than a shooting decision?

[@JohannesLabusch]

Scorsese has perfected a system he uses in ALL his movies. Whenever an actor says a line of dialogue, he has them use their voices. I call it the V system. Watch Casino, for example. You can observe Scorsese's ease with the V system in almost every scene.

[@karthickmurughan4096]

Can u share me references about 'V' system..... Thanks.

[@nomecognome8737]

​@@karthickmurughan4096 he was trolling, read that again

[@karthickmurughan4096]

Oh...😀

[@alikhosravani7824]

tanks a lot man .

[@yomarcelojeje]

Have you had any trouble monetising this video with the footage you used in it?

[@AmperSand666]

Great tutorial, it was a pleasure to watch it, thanks a lot! 💕 Without being a cameraman (even less Spielberg the director) I've tried myself to apply those camera movements in a... Google Earth simulation about mountains (watch?v=44jcLiJPvJ8) and I've got some criticism for this atypical use of GE, but for me it worth because - as you said in your tutorial - it provides a very rich visual experience. In several "shots" I've used a helicoidal trajectory, ending in going backward/away, trying to create the feeling that the camera "driver" follows his path while me - the camera "passenger" - I would like to stay a bit more there, "captivated" by the surrounding imagery :)

[@JaspreetSinghArtist]

Hey , i have a request for a video , i was watching a movie I Origin and in the beginning there were some very interesting cinematic shots , very interesting camera moments specially when the lead actor walk out of bus and camera move from buy to the billboard , i world be nice to see a video on those kind of camera moves .

[@bhabanishanakr]

Very helpful

[@shuttertux1666]

Wow. This is enlightening. Thank you for the video, Sareesh.

[@AcolytesOfHorror]

excellent

[@randallburgess6393]

Great observation

[@jayaychyremo2332]

Thanks dude

[@midhulantony2206]

Can u do a video on malayalam movie cinematography plez... Ok..

[@thebacons5943]

Good catch

[@purefoldnz3070]

Steven SpieLberg

[@KnowShun]

This is very informative.

[@StuntmanJake]

wolf crow = work flow?

[@stephanes.]

well I only got a slide bar, will think about how to achieve the same technique... thanks!

[@ashrafahmedkhan8902]

Just amazing ! Sir

[@MathiBA]

Great teaching, Thank you!

[@rockyyj6815]

Kollaam Sareesh chetta

[@severallybrianth6557]

All things you said make sense.

[@kylemccuiston]

Extremely useful info here!

[@ckannan90]

Great video! One bit of feedback: in many clips I had trouble following or spotting what you meant by L. It could just be because I’m a cinematography newbie. I think on screen arrows tracing the shape would have helped, especially in the clips where multiple things are happening. Thanks!

[@ijohnathonwhite8002]

thanks

[@parameswaranrajendran]

Great information buddy. Good work

[@dreams_of_bubbles]

Hot tip: when you make these videos, edit in a 30p timeline. That way the cadence from the 24p footage won't be so far off.

[@Leomendoncacampos]

how so?

[@codecxo]

Leonardo Campos when you insert 29/30p footage into a 24p timeline, the 30p footage is forced down to 24p, and the “cadence” of the frame rate goes off. You can always go up from 24 with decent results, but you will never get good results going back down from 30.

[@Leomendoncacampos]

@@codecxo Hmm. Can you explain what cadence is? I'm not familiar with the term.

[@codecxo]

@@Leomendoncacampos The pattern or rhythm of the frames. Test it out!

[@AK-cf6sj]

Spielberg is to Hollywood is what Maniratnam to India. Popcorn sellers with great cinematic seasoning.

[@lichtfilme]

Interesting!

[@vengatesanm4449]

Astonishing astro

[@lucs0091]

I can't believe the dinosaurs still look better in the original Jurassic Park

[@jasonjoseph4888]

Nice video, and the shout out to Munich is on the money. That film is a camera blocking masterclass.

[@joshuamassawe2474]

I see a lot of Kurosawa inspiration in these shots...

[@winggantara5714]

yeah if he said study, then mention kurosawa really help your study much deepr

[@pacman52280]

I hate it when they put an ad at the very end of the video.

[@ChritsianBucic]

excellent and very informative tx