[Music]
I love movies ever since I was a kid my
favorite form of entertainment has
always been movies having a long story
told to me that’s my first life by the
way having a long story told to me with
visuals accompanying it was always right
on my alley of enjoyment doesn’t grew
older and became more interested in
storytelling and writing I was able to
see what an incredible form of artwork
film was the time and effort needed to
create a film is immense it takes
hundreds of trained workers you need
actors writers cinematographers set
managers designers artists and many more
jobs all with one director leading them
on their way to a successful project it
takes about half a year to create a good
screenplay 30 to 60 days to do all the
filming and then six months to multiple
years to do the post-production editing
of a film so in total it can take many
many years to create a film but it’s
only a two-hour theatre experience of
what you get at the end of it with
movies being such a massive project to
make there’s thousands of things that
can go wrong and that’s what I’m here to
talk about today a director’s choices
every single one will either push
audiences away or pull them in and when
a director messes up he has the choice
to either learn from it or not learn
from it and sulk on it and so I’m gonna
be talking on when directors have
learned from their mistakes and past
mistakes of other directors and how we
just like directors can change our I
guess our movies of our lives in the
future
and learn from them so we’re gonna start
with CG talking about the use of CGI in
movies CGI stands for computer-generated
images and is used to enhance the screen
in post-production to create fantasy or
unrealistic elements in the movie CGI
was first introduced in the sequel to
West World future world in 1976 and was
revolutionized in 1982 with the movie
Tron after this after Tron was created
the whole new world was opened up to
directors to use CGI so let’s have an
honest man
who here likes Star Wars yep everyone
good
Star Wars is one of the if not the
biggest franchise in the entire planet
when the first when the first prequel of
Star Wars was released in 1999 to the
Phantom Menace it was financially very
successful grossing over a billion
dollars in the box office but critically
did very poorly amongst the fans one of
the biggest issues that I saw when
reading most of the reviews was the
extreme use of poor quality CGI when you
have a real-life actor standing next to
a fake character if they look bad it’s
very easy to tell and it can suck you
out of the movies immersion because you
immediately know that’s not real what am
I looking at and a prime example of this
if you ask any Star Wars fan is the
infamous Jar Jar Binks right in the
middle that guy there he was infamous
for being one of the worst animated CGI
characters of all time very annoying
dialogue not a great character in my
opinion because of this it dragged the
film down every scene that you saw him
in you immediately knew you weren’t in
the movies world anymore you were now in
a theater watching something on a screen
and more recent example of poor CGI use
was the film Jupiter ascending this was
made by the Wachowskis the siblings who
were responsible for the famous matrix
franchise this film was a financial and
critical failure
it made 190 million dollars but was
estimated to take over 210 million
dollars to create critically it was
panned by many for its overuse of CGI
one of the biggest problems was that you
never felt like you were in a real
situation because there was so much CGI
one of our most climactic scenes in the
movie our main protagonist is falling
down a ledge into a city below with
explosions around her it’s very heart
pounding except it’s not because when
you’re looking at it you can tell
nothing is real the only thing real in
this shot of the movie is our hero you
can you look around the explosions
aren’t real the city is not real and it
sucks you out when there’s too much CGI
in a movie so let’s talk about where
directors have learned from this the
first example in 2008 we see Christopher
Nolan’s The Dark Knight this movie was a
financial and critical success grossing
over a billion dollars in the box office
and being praised by many for its
fantastic acting stunts and practical
effects Christopher Nolan decided to
avoid CGI as much as possible and make
everything as real as possible one scene
in which a car crashes instead of having
a CGI car crash and tumble they bought a
real a real Lamborghini murciélago and
crashed it which makes car fans cry a
little but it’s worth it for the movie
and another scene one of the most famous
in the whole movie is when our main
villain blows up a hospital building so
instead of using taking the easy route
and animating a building blowing up they
took the hard route and they blew up an
actual building you only get one shot to
do this I don’t know if you guys know
how hard it is to rebuild a building but
only takes a few seconds to blow it up
another film that relies heavily on
practical effects is Alexandra guns
always in your Ito’s the revenant
released in 2015 this movie took
audiences to amazing sights going to
extreme natural environment and the
wildernesses of Canada to film every
single member there reported that they
had frostbite many different times it
wasn’t an easy journey for them to film
this movie but at the end they said that
it was worth it and it was it won them
awards including Alexandra do you go in
your Ito the award for Best Director of
that year one of the prime examples of
this is a scene where our main character
Leonardo DiCaprio is floating down a
freezing River this scene could have
been done in a pool with green screen
green screens to simulate a similar
effect but instead Leonardo DiCaprio
insisted that he actually jump in the
freezing River and not only that his
cameraman followed to get the best
possible shot now that’s not to say that
CGI is
bad thing either both of these two last
films didn’t rely on it much but there
are good things that can come from it
even when using lots of it
take for example 2014’s dawn of the
Planet of the Apes half of the main
characters in this movie are CGI
animated apes and so you’re gonna have
to use good CGI if you want it to look
realistic and they did the studio behind
this won many awards including best CGI
animation in a film that year and were
nominated for many others revolving
around their CGI animation one scene in
particular that many food fans of the
series loved was this scene in which a
young boy stands next to an orangutan
lots of people questioned whether the
orangutan was real because it looked so
realistic compared to the young man next
to him but in reality he was CGI
animated so as these directors have had
to learn how to know when and how to use
CGI we’re gonna talk about how horror
movie directors have to try and keep the
audience on their toes guessing what’s
gonna happen next because horror movies
are one of the biggest genres in the
film industry there’s no feeling quite
like sitting in a dark room having fear
of rush down your spine with your
friends there it’s terrifying but it’s
so much fun if you haven’t seen a horror
movie go watch it it kind of sucks the
first time but it’s worth it and after
Alfred Hitchcock blazed the trail for
horror movies the film industry couldn’t
get enough in more recent years we saw
the clap we saw a film become a classic
in horror movie fans hearts Paranormal
Activity this film was made on a
minuscule budget of eleven thousand
dollars and grossed over a hundred
million dollars it was incredible it was
an incredible sight to see such a small
project be so successful but after the
success we saw predictability fall
through every single film and the same
method of fear a jump scare which is the
film is very quiet and is building
suspense up to a snap of a very loud
noise and an image flashing in front of
you quickly and in the first paranormal
activity
it was great and fans loved it but when
they made the second one with a much
bigger budget of
three million dollars they grossed less
money overall and got worse reviews and
then when they made the third one with a
bigger budget they got less money and
worse reviews and this proceeded I think
there’s like 80 paranormal activities
now or something but so we saw a trend
of predictability in almost all horror
films because after the success of
paranormal activity so many other movies
such as sinister the conjuring the
bye-bye man all of these movies tried to
follow with the same methods of fear the
jump scare and without changing it up in
almost sense there was almost the sense
of predictability in all horror films
but these next films I’m going to talked
about going to talk about try to change
it up and make it so audiences what we
didn’t know what was going to happen
next
the first film being insidious which was
actually made by the creators of
Paranormal Activity they learn from
their mistakes with the insidious
franchise and added a few new tricks to
try and scare the audiences one of their
biggest tricks which is very popular is
a famous jump scare scene the jump scare
is going where our characters are just
talking in a room nothing is really
happening that that’s exciting there’s
no suspense being built up and all of a
sudden one of our characters see
something and begins to scream as our
camera quickly cuts to a scary monster
in the background now it might just
sound like a normal jump scare to some
but what it is is just dropping you in
most jump scares have a small meet up of
suspense but just like it dropped down
our character in that scene it drops in
audiences to just this open nest of fear
you are now no longer safe in any
portion of the movie any time that it
was happy or sad or scary you were open
to a jump scare of some kind and I left
audiences with a sense of dread this
jump scare is so popular that after the
rest of these talks if you google
insidious jump scare you’ll find it
immediately the next movie we’re gonna
talk about is an indie hit called it
follows this movie was made on a small
budget of ten million dollars and was
very successful financially and
critically one of the critics biggest
praises was that it doesn’t tell you
almost anything about the monsters and
so you have a relation to these
characters in the movie they don’t know
anything you
know anything there’s a sense of panic
when people don’t know anything you kind
of freak out for a moment you don’t know
what to do
and so it follows has this constant
sense of panic throughout the entire
film and it follows it beautifully
moving lights out
did very well amongst fans for its very
creative and terrifying monster effects
in just in detail the monster in the
movie looks like this I hope that didn’t
scare you too much I can tell you guys
are frightened it has two main things
about it because this is the way that
you see it throughout most of the film
it has its long crooked thin silhouette
and it’s too white beady eyes the
silhouette is made so that your mind
imagines the scariest thing possible for
yourself it’s kind of a show less get
more situation the eyes or a deep
contrast to the dark silhouette which
forces your own eyes to focus on those
and always be looking at the monster
making it harder to look away to ease
the fear all of these horror movies
tried to change the game in some way
whether it be with a more exciting
mobster or not explaining anything to
the audience or a different way to scare
people with a jump scare and they all
learned it from their past failures
paranormal activity so I don’t want you
to think that any of these films that
I’ve talked about are 100% failures or
100% successes they’ve all done things
right and they’ve all done things wrong
but where they’ve all exceeded 100% is
that people have learned from them
you’re thousands of mistakes away from
being good at something you have to try
something over and over and over again
until you get it right and that’s why
when a director is looking at his past
films and the past films of other people
when he looks at the van things he’s not
looking to soap on them and think that
was terrible of me I should have never
done that he’s looking to learn from
that and he thinks well that’s great now
we know what to do next time and just
like how we can do the same thing when
we look on our past selves and we
realize what we can change what we can
do next I want you to keep
shooting for your goals no matter what
they are whether it be to someday become
a director of a horror film or dawn of
the Planet of the Apes 17 or something
and I want you to keep trying for those
goals and even if you fail don’t think
of it as a failure think of it as a
great opportunity to learn and improve
thank you
[Music]
you
I love movies ever since I was a kid my
favorite form of entertainment has
always been movies having a long story
told to me that’s my first life by the
way having a long story told to me with
visuals accompanying it was always right
on my alley of enjoyment doesn’t grew
older and became more interested in
storytelling and writing I was able to
see what an incredible form of artwork
film was the time and effort needed to
create a film is immense it takes
hundreds of trained workers you need
actors writers cinematographers set
managers designers artists and many more
jobs all with one director leading them
on their way to a successful project it
takes about half a year to create a good
screenplay 30 to 60 days to do all the
filming and then six months to multiple
years to do the post-production editing
of a film so in total it can take many
many years to create a film but it’s
only a two-hour theatre experience of
what you get at the end of it with
movies being such a massive project to
make there’s thousands of things that
can go wrong and that’s what I’m here to
talk about today a director’s choices
every single one will either push
audiences away or pull them in and when
a director messes up he has the choice
to either learn from it or not learn
from it and sulk on it and so I’m gonna
be talking on when directors have
learned from their mistakes and past
mistakes of other directors and how we
just like directors can change our I
guess our movies of our lives in the
future
and learn from them so we’re gonna start
with CG talking about the use of CGI in
movies CGI stands for computer-generated
images and is used to enhance the screen
in post-production to create fantasy or
unrealistic elements in the movie CGI
was first introduced in the sequel to
West World future world in 1976 and was
revolutionized in 1982 with the movie
Tron after this after Tron was created
the whole new world was opened up to
directors to use CGI so let’s have an
honest man
who here likes Star Wars yep everyone
good
Star Wars is one of the if not the
biggest franchise in the entire planet
when the first when the first prequel of
Star Wars was released in 1999 to the
Phantom Menace it was financially very
successful grossing over a billion
dollars in the box office but critically
did very poorly amongst the fans one of
the biggest issues that I saw when
reading most of the reviews was the
extreme use of poor quality CGI when you
have a real-life actor standing next to
a fake character if they look bad it’s
very easy to tell and it can suck you
out of the movies immersion because you
immediately know that’s not real what am
I looking at and a prime example of this
if you ask any Star Wars fan is the
infamous Jar Jar Binks right in the
middle that guy there he was infamous
for being one of the worst animated CGI
characters of all time very annoying
dialogue not a great character in my
opinion because of this it dragged the
film down every scene that you saw him
in you immediately knew you weren’t in
the movies world anymore you were now in
a theater watching something on a screen
and more recent example of poor CGI use
was the film Jupiter ascending this was
made by the Wachowskis the siblings who
were responsible for the famous matrix
franchise this film was a financial and
critical failure
it made 190 million dollars but was
estimated to take over 210 million
dollars to create critically it was
panned by many for its overuse of CGI
one of the biggest problems was that you
never felt like you were in a real
situation because there was so much CGI
one of our most climactic scenes in the
movie our main protagonist is falling
down a ledge into a city below with
explosions around her it’s very heart
pounding except it’s not because when
you’re looking at it you can tell
nothing is real the only thing real in
this shot of the movie is our hero you
can you look around the explosions
aren’t real the city is not real and it
sucks you out when there’s too much CGI
in a movie so let’s talk about where
directors have learned from this the
first example in 2008 we see Christopher
Nolan’s The Dark Knight this movie was a
financial and critical success grossing
over a billion dollars in the box office
and being praised by many for its
fantastic acting stunts and practical
effects Christopher Nolan decided to
avoid CGI as much as possible and make
everything as real as possible one scene
in which a car crashes instead of having
a CGI car crash and tumble they bought a
real a real Lamborghini murciélago and
crashed it which makes car fans cry a
little but it’s worth it for the movie
and another scene one of the most famous
in the whole movie is when our main
villain blows up a hospital building so
instead of using taking the easy route
and animating a building blowing up they
took the hard route and they blew up an
actual building you only get one shot to
do this I don’t know if you guys know
how hard it is to rebuild a building but
only takes a few seconds to blow it up
another film that relies heavily on
practical effects is Alexandra guns
always in your Ito’s the revenant
released in 2015 this movie took
audiences to amazing sights going to
extreme natural environment and the
wildernesses of Canada to film every
single member there reported that they
had frostbite many different times it
wasn’t an easy journey for them to film
this movie but at the end they said that
it was worth it and it was it won them
awards including Alexandra do you go in
your Ito the award for Best Director of
that year one of the prime examples of
this is a scene where our main character
Leonardo DiCaprio is floating down a
freezing River this scene could have
been done in a pool with green screen
green screens to simulate a similar
effect but instead Leonardo DiCaprio
insisted that he actually jump in the
freezing River and not only that his
cameraman followed to get the best
possible shot now that’s not to say that
CGI is
bad thing either both of these two last
films didn’t rely on it much but there
are good things that can come from it
even when using lots of it
take for example 2014’s dawn of the
Planet of the Apes half of the main
characters in this movie are CGI
animated apes and so you’re gonna have
to use good CGI if you want it to look
realistic and they did the studio behind
this won many awards including best CGI
animation in a film that year and were
nominated for many others revolving
around their CGI animation one scene in
particular that many food fans of the
series loved was this scene in which a
young boy stands next to an orangutan
lots of people questioned whether the
orangutan was real because it looked so
realistic compared to the young man next
to him but in reality he was CGI
animated so as these directors have had
to learn how to know when and how to use
CGI we’re gonna talk about how horror
movie directors have to try and keep the
audience on their toes guessing what’s
gonna happen next because horror movies
are one of the biggest genres in the
film industry there’s no feeling quite
like sitting in a dark room having fear
of rush down your spine with your
friends there it’s terrifying but it’s
so much fun if you haven’t seen a horror
movie go watch it it kind of sucks the
first time but it’s worth it and after
Alfred Hitchcock blazed the trail for
horror movies the film industry couldn’t
get enough in more recent years we saw
the clap we saw a film become a classic
in horror movie fans hearts Paranormal
Activity this film was made on a
minuscule budget of eleven thousand
dollars and grossed over a hundred
million dollars it was incredible it was
an incredible sight to see such a small
project be so successful but after the
success we saw predictability fall
through every single film and the same
method of fear a jump scare which is the
film is very quiet and is building
suspense up to a snap of a very loud
noise and an image flashing in front of
you quickly and in the first paranormal
activity
it was great and fans loved it but when
they made the second one with a much
bigger budget of
three million dollars they grossed less
money overall and got worse reviews and
then when they made the third one with a
bigger budget they got less money and
worse reviews and this proceeded I think
there’s like 80 paranormal activities
now or something but so we saw a trend
of predictability in almost all horror
films because after the success of
paranormal activity so many other movies
such as sinister the conjuring the
bye-bye man all of these movies tried to
follow with the same methods of fear the
jump scare and without changing it up in
almost sense there was almost the sense
of predictability in all horror films
but these next films I’m going to talked
about going to talk about try to change
it up and make it so audiences what we
didn’t know what was going to happen
next
the first film being insidious which was
actually made by the creators of
Paranormal Activity they learn from
their mistakes with the insidious
franchise and added a few new tricks to
try and scare the audiences one of their
biggest tricks which is very popular is
a famous jump scare scene the jump scare
is going where our characters are just
talking in a room nothing is really
happening that that’s exciting there’s
no suspense being built up and all of a
sudden one of our characters see
something and begins to scream as our
camera quickly cuts to a scary monster
in the background now it might just
sound like a normal jump scare to some
but what it is is just dropping you in
most jump scares have a small meet up of
suspense but just like it dropped down
our character in that scene it drops in
audiences to just this open nest of fear
you are now no longer safe in any
portion of the movie any time that it
was happy or sad or scary you were open
to a jump scare of some kind and I left
audiences with a sense of dread this
jump scare is so popular that after the
rest of these talks if you google
insidious jump scare you’ll find it
immediately the next movie we’re gonna
talk about is an indie hit called it
follows this movie was made on a small
budget of ten million dollars and was
very successful financially and
critically one of the critics biggest
praises was that it doesn’t tell you
almost anything about the monsters and
so you have a relation to these
characters in the movie they don’t know
anything you
know anything there’s a sense of panic
when people don’t know anything you kind
of freak out for a moment you don’t know
what to do
and so it follows has this constant
sense of panic throughout the entire
film and it follows it beautifully
moving lights out
did very well amongst fans for its very
creative and terrifying monster effects
in just in detail the monster in the
movie looks like this I hope that didn’t
scare you too much I can tell you guys
are frightened it has two main things
about it because this is the way that
you see it throughout most of the film
it has its long crooked thin silhouette
and it’s too white beady eyes the
silhouette is made so that your mind
imagines the scariest thing possible for
yourself it’s kind of a show less get
more situation the eyes or a deep
contrast to the dark silhouette which
forces your own eyes to focus on those
and always be looking at the monster
making it harder to look away to ease
the fear all of these horror movies
tried to change the game in some way
whether it be with a more exciting
mobster or not explaining anything to
the audience or a different way to scare
people with a jump scare and they all
learned it from their past failures
paranormal activity so I don’t want you
to think that any of these films that
I’ve talked about are 100% failures or
100% successes they’ve all done things
right and they’ve all done things wrong
but where they’ve all exceeded 100% is
that people have learned from them
you’re thousands of mistakes away from
being good at something you have to try
something over and over and over again
until you get it right and that’s why
when a director is looking at his past
films and the past films of other people
when he looks at the van things he’s not
looking to soap on them and think that
was terrible of me I should have never
done that he’s looking to learn from
that and he thinks well that’s great now
we know what to do next time and just
like how we can do the same thing when
we look on our past selves and we
realize what we can change what we can
do next I want you to keep
shooting for your goals no matter what
they are whether it be to someday become
a director of a horror film or dawn of
the Planet of the Apes 17 or something
and I want you to keep trying for those
goals and even if you fail don’t think
of it as a failure think of it as a
great opportunity to learn and improve
thank you
[Music]
you
Please follow and like us: