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Great article, but misleading title. These YouTube videos do a good job of teaching armatures (like myself) small details of movie making, but they don’t come close to a film school education (which itself is far away from getting experience making films and working under world-class movie makers)

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Yea I feel like a lot of these break downs of film overanalyze and make too cerebral the art of movies.. For example when Sam Mendes was filming American Beauty he said he did not realize the film he was making until they got into the editing room. From all of the youtube movie break downs you would believe that everything was intentional and deliberate and you should already know the movie you are going to make out of the gate instead of discovering and pivoting along the way

For those interested in going deeper, MIT has 'The Film Experience' online and available for download from the Internet Archive [2].

edit: I should also give a shout out to The Story of Film: An Odyssey -- which is an excellent long-form timeline that connects some of the most important films of all time. Definitely worth a watch.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-011-the-film-expe...

[2] https://archive.org/details/MIT21L.011F13

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey

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