Threading up
Library
Every one of these is a decision about where to put the camera and what to leave out. None of them are rules. They are the arrangements that keep working, and knowing their names makes them easier to spot, easier to use, and easier to break on purpose. Tap a film to jump to it in the library.
Draw an invisible line between two people talking. Keep the camera on one side of it and the conversation reads. Cross it and the audience gets lost, even though they will not know why. Slide the camera around and watch the two shots change.
Count the shots in a scene and the app works out the average shot length. Jaws sits near six seconds. Fury Road is under two. A Tarkovsky scene can run past sixty. Nothing teaches rhythm faster than measuring it yourself.
The other half of the library. What you made, what you were reaching for, and what you would do differently. In two years this is the part worth having.
The person stays exactly the same size in every one of these. Only the lens and how far back you stand are changing. Watch the street behind them.
Drag the lights around the subject on the plan. Camera sits at 0 degrees, the sides are 90, and 180 is directly behind them.
Load a still from something you shot and push it around. Every film you have ever seen went through this step, and somebody chose all of it on purpose.
Load a photo to begin
nothing is uploaded, it stays on this device
A scene has no picture here on purpose. Press play, then turn the layers on and off one at a time and listen to what each one is doing. Every sound is generated in your browser, so none of it is a recording of anything.
Try this: play everything, then mute the room tone by itself. The scene falls apart instantly, and it is the one layer no audience ever consciously notices. That is why a location sound recordist always records a minute of a room doing nothing.