I'm talking about the following scene in The Age of Innocence: Scene 1: In Scene 2: When those two started talking, a spotlight slowly appears on them, and w
iZombie's main conceit is that the main character, Liv, accesses the memory and personality of murder victims by eating their brains. In the first season, this
In movies where we observe from actor's point of view (POV), does the actor actually film the part where he is holding the camera?
At around 00:50 we can see the golf ball flying through the street and camera following it through air and through bushes until it hits window. How did they fi
At around minute 57 to 59, Morpheus explains to Neo that every citizen in the Matrix can become an agent like agent Smith, while everything else around them is
In this scene in Hot Fuzz (2007) the camera focuses on these two characters and rotates slowly, but the background rotates so fast. So what is this camera effec
Michael Bay has made extensive use (some sites assert he has used it in "all of his movies") of a shot called by many the "Michael Bay Spin". Here's what it loo
What is the first film or television show to employ this trope: character walks away down a blackened hallway with overhead light fixtures creating evenly sp
While watching Final Destination 3 I noticed a very characteristic camera shot. At a scene where the main character, Wendy, sits in her room at the computer (wa
It doesn't matter whether its the 80's, 90's or nowadays - there is the cinematic/movie look, and then there is the "cheap" kind of look. The one from daily soa
For reference, my question comes after having viewed the latest episode of the HBO series Silicon Valley (Season 3, Episode 9 - "Daily Active Users"). The fina
In this video about the filming of The Battle of Winterfell, starting at 4:04 you can see 2 people follow around the cameraman as he is filming. What are they d
How do they shoot movies with live tigers? Do they use real live dangerous animals to shoot movies? If they are not real then how they do it?
There are usually two rectangles over videos before the final video is released. I guess they might be there to help the camera operator. What purpose do the
How did they shoot the Las Vegas MGM Grand scene in "Now You See Me" (2013)? At the beginning of the Las Vegas scene there is a very large auditorium with a ro
If Terrence Malick can get such gorgeous images using almost entirely natural/available light, why do filmmakers bother with artificial lights? From behind-the
Here is a shot of the inside of a Panavision 65mm camera. As you can see the film makes a number of turns. Why is this done? It seems like it would only make
How do they shoot binocular scenes? Do they put two cameras in binoculars? See this binocular vision from Ronin (1998):
I've just seen Captain America: Civil War and one thing that struck me was how choppy a lot of the action looks. I'm aware that filmmakers often play with fram
I saw Carol (2015) recently. All scenes are shot with steady cam, sometimes it looks like Wes Anderson or Tom Hooper shots. But for the very end scenes they us