Werner Herzog's Masterclass

[@wj2429]

Props to the sound guys, quickly getting him the much higher quality mic.

[@UltrafiAV]

"If I cut the silence out, I've lived in vain."

[@drun]

I find it so bizarre that there are not more views on this. Great stuff.

[@shanmukhkalidindi2878]

drun me too

[@fuferito]

Totally agree.

[@K2nsl3r]

This was really inspirational, even if you're not a film maker.

[@liltrill5265]

God bless Werner for understanding these nervous students’ bumbling and turning it into valuable wisdom

[@samaraisnt]

These are adults who paid for a ticket to a film talk, so even older adults. This is just how dumb/inarticulate average people are, even serious cinephiles lol.

[@Lupocide]

A wise and articulate man.

[@YPAReviews]

Yes on the note of coverage. If you shoot a scene from multiple angles just for "safety" then it is proof that you are uncertain of the purpose of your shot. You are just shooting for the sake of shooting something displaying your uncertainty in your decisions. Your lack of artistry is prevalent through the screen into the audiences subconscious. If you're going to point the camera then know WHY you're pointing it there. Know WHY you're emphasizing an emotion. Don't just shoot like you're firing blanks. I've done so before and my lack of knowledge in my coverage or b roll was an embarrassment upon my own work. Don't make that same mistake.

[@Troygdesign]

yes, i understand.

[@rwdyer2263]

Please elaborate on what you mean by "Why? Can you give an example or two? Trying to wrap my mind around it.

[@Troygdesign]

if i may try, He means going in with direction , purposefully. knowing what you want before you shoot it, having the composition in mind, i.e. WHY is the camera pointed at her face and at the back of his in a conversation, Her emotion is the one that matters in the scene, but his emotional cues is saved till the next sequence. stuff like that.

[@afrosymphony8207]

i get that but most times these movies can change into something u didnt even plan on like in american beauty...sam mendes found out he had made a completely different movie when he went to the cutting room, he ended up cutting off like 40 minutes of what he'd shot for what he thought was d movie he was making.

[@mrjoshuashaw]

im about to shoot my first short film. written and directed by myself. i should sit and visualize every single scene before i go out shooting? i had thought about going with a basic outline and then do sort of guerilla shooting and see how the shots turn out. like once scene, i want to turn a normal hotel room into a blacklight room and have the couple do face painting with glow in the dark paint. paint on the walls etc. but i don't know what i want on camera. i just have the idea. so should i really map out the scene in my head before i got to shoot? thanks

[@emrysellis7901]

Thank you for the better sound 🙏🙏🙏

[@goodguystv3964]

This is the best conversation on film I have ever seen

[@BrettonFerguson]

No excuses. Save up $10,000 and make a movie. You don't even need that much. Look up the film "Who Killed Captain Alex?" It is made by a guy in Uganda with one digital video camera and a desktop computer. He has made a dozen or so movies. I don't think the village has electricity, I think he uses a generator. He makes movie after movie. His hard drive is so small, once the movie is finished and he has made a bunch of DVDs to sell, he has to delete the movie from his hard drive before he can make the next movie. Also he has to burn 1 DVD at a time. He enjoys it and makes a living doing it. Most of his village volunteers to be in his films. They can't afford any props. If they need AK-47s, they carve them out of wood and paint them black. They do a good job and the guns look real enough. He digitally makes muzzle flashes later. In Who Killed Captain Alex, they built a helicopter out of bamboo, boards, paper mache and things. He then filmed all the helicopter scenes. Then digitally put the helicopter in the sky. It is one of the funniest parts of the movie, but for a guy with no training to edit video of people in a homemade helicopter and make it like they are in the sky blowing up buildings he does a pretty good job. Other than the helicopter moving unnaturally, making turns, changing directions and such in ways a helicopter can't was really the bad part, but the guy has probably never seen a helicopter maneuvering turning and attacking. So that is his lack of helicopter flying knowledge, not anything he did wrong editing. I think they have clips on KZbin. They probably have the entire movie, but f**k that, buy a copy from the guy in Uganda. The average rural (where he lives) Ugandan is the equivalent of $81 US dollars. In urban cities the average Ugandan income is the equivalent to about $163. So buy the DVD for $20. If he sells 5 DVDs a month, he will have above average annual rural income in his area.

[@wj2429]

A genuinely inspiring story, the film is one of my happiest purchases.

[@davemckay4359]

thank you for the upload. Werner Herzog rules.

[@matthewgaffney1955]

this is really fantastic. thank you for sharing this genius mind.

[@user-di5rm9ee1p]

Very good. He is so right about documentary. It has to be subjective not objective.

[@skellzzed8255]

Wow, a microphone comedy within the first 5 minutes.

[@WallKenshiro]

The main message I'm getting from Mr Herzog so far is "Do not f' about with b.s."

[@natbirchall1580]

I traveled on foot for 4 months and he is right it changed me forever, but it is dwarfed by raising children.

[@thenpguy5852]

the ad I got was the trailer for the masterclass

[@darshandutta7333]

TheNPGuy its not that one...... Masterclass is a website....

[@Skyruss24]

duh, ads go by what you search

[@Raidmasterprod]

Uploaded on my 21st birthday!

[@GaryTruesdale]

Thank you Sir.

[@alisalarsen4134]

Brilliant!! Thank you!

[@ericlopezvega7312]

w herzog one of first antecedents I have with german films... congrats from instituto ruso-mexicano de cinematografia

[@pete49327]

What a great treat, thank you.

[@i_dont_live_here]

This is the earth I showed up for.

[@Baxxter101]

I love his glasses!

[@cliffont]

I like those magnetic glasses

[@mako4874]

my god- werner herzog and they can't give him a decent mic. shame on u guys. thats embarrassing...

[@electricafroman]

nope, it sounds like garbage. its crap

[@timb.1103]

Did you watch past the first 5 minutes?

[@electricafroman]

Tim B. Why would i? Couldn't hear anything he said...

[@murkartik]

They gave him a new mic after 5 mins :) very much worth watching.

[@makadir1]

Loop Set A

[@jessicasvideos3068]

Great Man thank you for sharing i appreciate you

[@nandamari]

Damn that's a long first question!

[@michaelchoki2133]

Thanks for uploading

[@jackharle1251]

The second finger is actually the one to lose if you have to lose one. Middle finger can do whatever the second finger foes.

[@Survivethejive]

They shouldn't have used an Apple and its dodgy media player which makes noises when they adjust the volume and whatnot!

[@therealkellzo]

Seems like there were multiple audio issues at this event, beginning with the microphone / PA levels. There are preference settings in Mac OS that allow you to disable that noise you hear when some one adjusts the volume.

[@AlexDudenhof]

48:38 *Werner Herzog Masterglass (Brille)* (danke Florentin)

[@robomag471]

I just want to move my mouse off of the menu during the first clip...

[@user-gn8to5bo9z]

Thank you Mr Herzog

[@m.s.1421]

Grazie per aver condiviso Werner Herzog. Ps: hai creato un canale KZbin ricco di contenuti :-)

[@happyfrankie]

literally so frustrating how they can't seem to make a mic work and play a video on the computer correctly, yet are running a "masterclass"??

[@Troygdesign]

the point is that technology doesnt matter , its the intention behind the matter that is important, sure he had some tech trouble, but that did not stop him from communicate his ideas.

[@deniscassiere]

what a trip

[@antonvarela3213]

Why didn't anybody ask to Carmela Soprano?

[@-allwrittenfulfilled-]

You are such a wonderful person Mr. Werner! Thank you for sharing your experience, I learned a lot from your short Masterclass, hopefully I will find my ,,Voice,, like you did and as a person who loves photography and motion pictures I'd be more creative to tell my stories.

[@HookedUpEntertainmen]

I see you took the Masterclass. How much did you benefit from it? thinking about taking his course.

[@jude999]

Thank you so much for sharing. I would have loved to have asked about trust----between the director and the subject he is filming. Do you compromise the prospect of a good story by sharing information with your subject/actor.

[@shawnwright240]

Wow. this was great

[@birddogfreemann]

It is interesting to watch the woman next to Herzog

[@simoneaves9941]

The sound.

[@JimMalmPHOTO]

A great man.

[@andrealepri9746]

The audio sent from the PA mixer-board to the camera during the recordings is compromised. Now it's too late

[@christieroux1133]

1:26:27 - The importance of silence.

[@kipling1957]

Fire the sound guy.

[@stylz1]

Get to the chopper!

[@wojtekus]

Hahahahahahhaha. Good one!

[@AnnaLVajda]

Arnold is Austrian not German just so you know.

[@thebacons5943]

Grizzly Man is a true masterpiece

[@casperado666]

59:00 people in Russia are friggin' nuts 01:08:10 - some people in the US are obviously nuts too

[@garyfenlon5769]

Werner Herzog or Little Bill Daggett? (Gene Hackman's character in 'Unforgiven')

[@oscillatine]

Genious.

[@MrDrBendy]

"the mic was close to my face" Diddums!

[@christieroux1133]

1:13:40 - Imbed dreams and visions that have plagued you for long into your stories and make them stranger. Make the audience stop and invite them to slow their own internal narrative to match the present moment of that which you present to them in your film. Moments for the viewer to linger on.

[@christieroux1133]

Holding the breathe.

[@christieroux1133]

Even parts of stories. Add texture.

[@christieroux1133]

1:24:41 - The parallel story within the hearts and minds of the audience. What causes this? Predictably? How do you draw the audience back? Moments of silence? Strangeness?

[@christieroux1133]

In their hearts!

[@BeldnerFilms]

No Lavelier Mics?

[@wmsproductions]

she said "eh" at least 100 times....

[@92Cinema]

yeah i thought i was he only one that noticed that lol it got really annoying....

[@-theislander-5888]

MegaBeanandCheese he‘s german you donkey.

[@lightscrimmage]

understand? the word it'self says it all

[@AnnaLVajda]

So he's German and likes German accuracy and precision. Does he drive a Mercedes or a BMW?

[@junglejack9954]

Also in Switzerland everyone and everything is quite accurate

[@thebacons5943]

Bavarian

[@xinzukin]

1:00:52

[@doctim111]

Werner's Gymnasium.....

[@christieroux1133]

1:04:27 - The wisdom of the snake.

[@_TheGlockSaint_]

Für alle RBTV Zuschauer: 10:39 Epic glasses moment

[@calvinduffy]

32:05 iconic

[@vudu8ball]

Herzog makes the claim that a ship has never been dragged across a mountain. Actually this is not true. The Turks when they conquered Constantinople in 1454 had to tow several ships over a hill opposite Constantinople to get around a chain the Byzantines had strung across the mouth of the Golden Horn.

[@egepulat5444]

He doesn't say that in the context of history. He's stating that based on the limitations of filmmaking and production.

[@julianfrederick9082]

1. That wasn’t a mountain it was a hill, not as steep not as tall. 2. That wasn’t in the heart of the jungle in South America knee deep in the mud. 3. I doubt it was a 320 ton steamboat.

[@egepulat5444]

​@@julianfrederick9082 You mean the Turks?

[@sealife12]

Mountain, hill. Same fucking thing, right.

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

Jesus fucking christ dude he doesn’t claim to be the only person in ALL history EVER to drag a ship across land thats ridiculous ppl had to do that plenty of times, even in WW1 there’s stories of ships being dragged across East Africa to the Great Lakes. He’s talking about doing it for film, for his movie. Also he’s doing it in an ENTIRELY different context, in the middle of the Amazonian fucking jungle over a mountain and its a STEAMBOAT.

[@huskyhusky7455]

Is this the same content as in this Masterclass: www.masterclass.com/classes/werner-herzog-teaches-filmmaking. Does anybody know? Thanks:)

[@sufjanfloofens]

Husky Husky no for gods sake just buy the freaking class before searching an illegal way to watch it.

[@katherinemarsh7429]

Do you make DVDs or film on film

[@i_dont_live_here]

Get me the smallest midget in the world 💀

[@nickrozsa4785]

The Emperor has no clothes!

[@WimGrundy]

A golf cart and a gurney.

[@wendyxu1568]

is this the content of the $90 masterclass online??

[@shanmukhkalidindi2878]

Theia X lol I don't think so but that won't have too much more than this

[@gildazbog7419]

Masterclass is over 5 hours and definitely not this

[@HarryGoulding]

"why does God allow capital punishment?" How do you not have an answer for that question? I feel like there are things you can do in life which can forfeit your right to live among us. Mass murder is one of them.

[@nobody_there_]

is it the content of masterclass.com ?

[@reidbenson]

No

[@aestheticstudios3148]

I found this to be way better than the masterclass

[@thunderwood]

Wow, too bad about this sound.

[@46metube]

Brando's eyes in Zapata look ridiculous. even embarrassing.

[@84pej]

Give him a proper *&^%$# mic !!!!

[@JCTechFilms]

Awesome information!.. TERRIBLE TERRIBLE PRODUCTION! Bad camera moves (operators) Flash Photography constantly going off etc...

[@studiowerkvier6988]

sound so horrible

[@mychalsimmons4177]

This sound is awful

[@hklausen]

How cares whet this german fire truck say? ;-)

[@wolfstar675]

Who cares? Ummmm probably people who love cinema and want to hear from him because he is one of the most influential filmmakers. Who cares? Probably average movie goers or regular people who only care for banal things won't but many of us do.

[@cihankoru]

hklausen Who cares? I do.. like countless cinephiles around the world.

[@hklausen]

Art ?? You must joking, moron

[@skateordie002]

Here we fucking go, this "film isn't an art, dipshit, it's pointing a camera and saying 'action'" shit. Well, sorry to disappoint but pretty much ALL FILMMAKERS DISAGREE. It is the use of composition, lighting, staging and editing to tell the stories of people, places, moments in time. It is the art of the most primal form of storytelling; narrative through images. Now, carry on, for this is not your turf.

[@scattjax3908]

+hklausen I love german fire trucks und whet they say :)

[@mychalsimmons4177]

Masterclass?.... Shame on them

[@DexterHaven]

He's got nothing on Clint Eastwood.

[@notspiderman6198]

please shut the fuck up, you clown, you joke.

[@TakeItorLeaveItReviews]

Gotta agree, you joke when you say this, yes? Lol to each his/her own

[@-theislander-5888]

americans always gonna be americans

[@hklausen]

Personally i'm a little disappointed about Werner Herzog. He is not that great. Henrik, Denmark

[@wolfstar675]

He is not that great? Ummm yeah sure whatever.

[@Gambitheart]

hklausen personally ur talks are insignificant ...

[@hklausen]

Gambit The Exile Well, I think think some of his documentaries from dead row a are good. Thats also why he disapoint me a little in this talk. Ohh, and your opinion is significant? ;-)

[@enfransziszszisznarfne6970]

+hklausen What about the interwiewer then, dio vanga?

[@scattjax3908]

+hklausen You Should be disappointed.

[@fiveshorts]

I had no idea Herzog was such a... pratt. And no humility. So disappointing.

[@kalleandersson6844]

He's cosy as fuck. What are you talking about?

[@-theislander-5888]

the fuck are you smoking boy?

[@WallKenshiro]

The main message I'm getting from Mr Herzog so far is "Do not f' about with b.s."