There is no tilt-shift filter for iMovie, but there’s an iPhone app.

Reminder of tools/skills you can/should/might use:

• interviews with cutaways to voiceover (required)
• ID banners for interviewees (required)
• voiceover(s) (required)
• consistent (or intentionally inconsistent) transition vocabulary (required)
• audio normalized (required)
• output to mp4, HD (required)
• titles (required)
• credits (required)
• interesting variety of shots (required)
• interesting length of clips (long takes: very rare) (required)
• slider shots
• dolly/tracking shots
• handheld shots
• multiple shots anticipating use during voiceovers
• rule of thirds for framing
• controlled depth-of-field
• montage
• time-lapse shots (beginning? ending?)
• establishing shot, then visual element enters frame
• sound effect added to unify mini-montage, perhaps behind voiceover (e.g., birds twittering)
• non-diegetic music added
• overlapping sound (esp, maybe from/to blackouts)
• color correction
• color desaturation
• slo-mo/”fast forward”
• non-diegetic sound
• conscious story arc
• transcription of off-screen interviewer questions
• still photos, Ken Burns-ed
• post-production pans/zooms/crops

Interesting interactive article in the New York Times comparing the editing of five trailers, Silver Linings Playbook, Lincoln, Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild. 

Many are pretty tacky, but some could be handy for stylizing clips or whole films. Upload, apply enhancer, download, slam back into iMovie.

I wonder how this teacher would do grades in Understanding Film? (Besides the smiley faces.)

Produced for $160,000. Worldwide gross: $20.7 million.

Class discussion of Paprika reminded me of

and

and Anita Sarkeesian’s great web site Feminist Frequency.

Assembled by Refocused Media. (Nice find, Nick F.)

More at Steadishots.

The opening clip, from Kill Bill, is astonishing — here’s how it was done.

Tell me here. And thank you.