Thomas, huge fan, hey what other sources for more reading about cinema, current or past, do you recommend? I've gotten rather tired of the same "reviewers" I follow regularly.. Quality content like yours and that other great video essayists (Sideways, Breadsword, etc...) takes time I know, so what can you recommend in between your releases?
Hi Vic! A lot of what I read is actually more focused on the "filmmaking" side of film, rather than criticism necessarily. I don't know if it's what you're looking for but I like Steve Hullfish's interview with editors: https://www.provideocoalition.com/tag/art-of-the-cut/ I also love any kind of interview with directors about films I've seen.
Thank you. Actually, I guess I go into those reviews looking for insight into the filmmaking or cinematography, which I seldom find and maybe that's why I've grown wary of them...
Anyway since I have you here :P let me tell you that there a ton of times where I want to watch your videos.. but since I hate being spoiled (although your video on spoilers gave great insight) I make it a thing to watch the movie just so I can watch your content!
Furthermore... I was watching a video today and I left a question... It's an old video you probably won't see my comment, so I'll append it here. It makes more sense for you to be able to pay attention to your own platform. Less noise... If I'm out of line I apologize no need to respond..!
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Mr. Flight, what about video essays that get audio from interviews? For example... and I've wondered this for a while... When doing the profile on a particular Director or cinematographer... I've often wondered where that audio or clips from interviews come from. I don't hate them because usually it's a video that aggregates several interviews and narrows them down to a particular theme or topic of said essay but... I guess Studio Binder might be one of the worst offenders in this.. I've seen people straight up accuse them of stealing all their content. What do you think about this..?
I for one would love links to all the original interviews I tend to see online..! But rarely... or never really, have I seen them. Sometimes it's because they are old pieces of media that can't really be found anymore... or on the contrary new pieces of media that can be found anywhere so it's alright to use them.... no?
What decides whether that practice is legal or not (at least in the US) is the guidelines for Fair Use. I'm not a lawyer, but in my opinion that's a very grey area in terms of whether it qualifies as Fair Use, for reasons that are to complicated to get into here, but if you read up on Fair Use guidelines you'll probably see what I mean.
But even aside from the legality question I think it's a bit of a shady practice- especially when the sources aren't cited or linked, similar to how "interview mining" is technically legal but still a bad journalistic practice in my opinion.
I've always tried to cite the origin of any interview or article I quote in one of my videos, and as far as I can remember I always have.
Thomas, huge fan, hey what other sources for more reading about cinema, current or past, do you recommend? I've gotten rather tired of the same "reviewers" I follow regularly.. Quality content like yours and that other great video essayists (Sideways, Breadsword, etc...) takes time I know, so what can you recommend in between your releases?
Hi Vic! A lot of what I read is actually more focused on the "filmmaking" side of film, rather than criticism necessarily. I don't know if it's what you're looking for but I like Steve Hullfish's interview with editors: https://www.provideocoalition.com/tag/art-of-the-cut/ I also love any kind of interview with directors about films I've seen.
On the theory/criticism side of things David Bordwell's blog is great although only seldom updated: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/
Thank you. Actually, I guess I go into those reviews looking for insight into the filmmaking or cinematography, which I seldom find and maybe that's why I've grown wary of them...
Anyway since I have you here :P let me tell you that there a ton of times where I want to watch your videos.. but since I hate being spoiled (although your video on spoilers gave great insight) I make it a thing to watch the movie just so I can watch your content!
Furthermore... I was watching a video today and I left a question... It's an old video you probably won't see my comment, so I'll append it here. It makes more sense for you to be able to pay attention to your own platform. Less noise... If I'm out of line I apologize no need to respond..!
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On "Stop Falling for This Kind of Bad Entertainment Journalism"
Mr. Flight, what about video essays that get audio from interviews? For example... and I've wondered this for a while... When doing the profile on a particular Director or cinematographer... I've often wondered where that audio or clips from interviews come from. I don't hate them because usually it's a video that aggregates several interviews and narrows them down to a particular theme or topic of said essay but... I guess Studio Binder might be one of the worst offenders in this.. I've seen people straight up accuse them of stealing all their content. What do you think about this..?
I for one would love links to all the original interviews I tend to see online..! But rarely... or never really, have I seen them. Sometimes it's because they are old pieces of media that can't really be found anymore... or on the contrary new pieces of media that can be found anywhere so it's alright to use them.... no?
What decides whether that practice is legal or not (at least in the US) is the guidelines for Fair Use. I'm not a lawyer, but in my opinion that's a very grey area in terms of whether it qualifies as Fair Use, for reasons that are to complicated to get into here, but if you read up on Fair Use guidelines you'll probably see what I mean.
But even aside from the legality question I think it's a bit of a shady practice- especially when the sources aren't cited or linked, similar to how "interview mining" is technically legal but still a bad journalistic practice in my opinion.
I've always tried to cite the origin of any interview or article I quote in one of my videos, and as far as I can remember I always have.