Mastering Composition + Cinematography with Will Smith

Framing and Composition, rule of thirds, headroom, Leadroom etc.

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[HoodVlogs]

The amount of information you put in your videos is insane. Learning a lot from you. Thank you.

[leocelente]

One of (if not the best) tutorial I've ever seen on framing

[KarimaKadaoui]

It took me 10 mins into the video to realize that the Will Smith you met on the Toys R Us store is that figurine...

[TheGuitlicker]

I feel like I just completed my first semester in film school. Grateful that you shared this my dude.

[ghaith]

4:05 Rule of thirds
7:33 Central framing
8:30 look space/looking room
9:02 short sighting
10:37 head room
11:45 leading line
12:06 Repetition
12:33 Golden ratio
13:23 Balance
14:08 frame without frame
14:26 Anticipatory framing

14:58 short film ( examplify what he talked about)
18:46 Rule braking
19:01 last thoughts

[blearbenin]

I never watch 20min videos without skipping but...you know...quality content

[DDarious]

Thanks for your patience. These vids take awhile. Oh and I meant George Miller, not Romero. Name Flub. #Booya

[drummerdonniedotcom]

Awesome. 4 years of film school sangwiched (colloquialism) into 20 minutes. Thank. You!

[GusDaCosta]

My favorite video here, must’ve watched it 10 times already, make it 11, gonna watch it again.

[AerialLensVideo]

D4Darious, you are World Class in every way. You make YouTube worthwhile.

[-emiltube]

Must of taken ages to make this. Really appreciate it! Learned a lot!

[mrcupofcoffee]

Love the episode... As a photographer I appreciate how clean and simple your composition explanations were.
Kind of poetic to have the ad for Natalie Portman's masterclass before your clip then Ron Howard's masterclass after

[otterspoolstudios]

"Is this clickbait?" was the question I came into this with. 20 minutes later I had my answer. No - it's a huge amount of well-organised content delivered with enthusiasm, energy and most of all, fun. Outstanding job! ;-)

[JaysCashVault]

Man I am extremely hurt I didn’t find your channel a long time ago, I have been watching a good amount of your videos recently and all I have to say is THANK YOU honestly your videos has helped me get re inspired after almost giving up. Keep up the great work bro

[brokenstudiotv]

I'd rather watch your channel videos on a loop than go to a Film School.

[jonl]

The beauty of this video is that it applies to still photography as well. One of most entertaining videos I've watched on a technical subject. Believe it or not I was waiting to see if Will was going to make a guest appearance. Kept that suspense going all the way ... great work.

[thenerdherdforum]

Just found out about your channel, immediately subscribed!

[Bubblegummonsters]

Brilliant presentation and explanations, this must have taken a long time to put together! I think this is the best video I've seen in explaining the rule of thirds and composition in general. Keep up the great work

[jaeleefilms]

The “look space” rule of thumb really helped me man, I kept short sighting my subject in shots. This is really helping me improve my gimbal shots, thanks 🙏🏼

[jas_bataille]

The thing about the rule of thirds that beginners don't get, is that this "rule" is just the natural way of framing. It is so because of the golden proportion found in nature as you explained. This means you gradually end up framing *all* your shots naturally with the rule of third without even thinking about it after awhile. And when you put the subject in the center, or do something weird, that's really on purpose and it's often to make it awkward because awkwardness fit the story (like a bouncy hand-held POV shot when someone is chasing the main character in an horror movie). Excellent video and even with many years studying arts, photography and cinematography and applying these rules on a daily basis I loved this video. It is a great introduction for new students.