Coffee & Content: How Tarantino, Fincher and Nolan Direct Power Dynamics & How to Shoot Commercials

Coffee & Content: How Tarantino, Fincher and Nolan Direct Power Dynamics & How to Shoot Commercials

Coffee & Content: How Tarantino, Fincher and Nolan Direct Power Dynamics & How to Shoot Commercials

Happy Sunday Creative Army!

I've got my coffee in hand and your weekly dose of content coming in hot - grab your coffee of choice and let's dive right in.

First up, our friends over at StudioBinder have a great video about how Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, and Christopher Nolan direct the power dynamics featured in interrogation scenes. This video breaks down three types of interrogation scenes: transferring power, balancing power, and subverting power. You will see this illustrated with examples from Reservoir Dogs, The Dark Knight, Inglorious Bastards, and, many more.

Next up, director of photography Griffin Conway shares an amazing video about how to shoot a commercial. Specifically, this video takes you behind the scenes of a real broadcast television commercial Griffin shot for Fightcamp. Griffin takes you through his full process as a commercial DP from concept, pre-production, to on-set production.

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Wishing you a very happy, healthy, & creative Sunday.

Cheers,

RB

Studio Binder - How Tarantino, Fincher and Nolan Direct Power Dynamic

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Griffin Conway - How to Shoot a Commercial

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Richard "RB" Botto

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4 Comments on Richard RB's Article

Peggy Papas
Screenwriter
Thanks RB, very insightful to learn about how Director's use their artistry in relation to power dynamics within interrogation scenes. I love Tarantino (and, I must admit, Inglorious Bastards is a film I've not yet seen but it is on my list). The 'dutch angle' - if I have referred to that correctly - was an interesting one as it is subtle but effective.  One of my favourite, albeit cheesy, interrogation scenes is from Now You See Me when the handcuffs switch from Atlas to the Detective. Reflecting back on it, it feels neutral and balanced to some extent as Atlas exudes confidence to match that of the Detective, but the use of camera angles - having just re-watched it further to this - reminded me of the Batman/Joker scene. I guess Atlas did claim the power in this scene. 
3 years ago
Ramus Labiapari
Screenwriter
Great video explaining interrogation scenes and power dynamics. It is all about a combination of camera angles, room light and psychological inference to create that power dynamics in favouring a character. 
3 years ago
Richard RB Botto
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter, Voice Artist
Glad you enjoyed!
3 years ago
Mighty Nice
Director, Content Creator, Producer, Screenwriter
this is amazing contents to study scene directing.
3 years ago
Tasha Lewis
Actor, Author, Choreographer, Dancer, Director, Editor, Filmmaker, Marketing/PR, Narrator, Producer, Researcher, Screenwriter, Student, Translator, Voice Actor
Thank you for sharing these great resources for Pre Production RB.  One of the islands, from the Free islands article, will be a good Proof of Concept shoot.
3 years ago
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