How Kubrick, Spielberg, and Inarritu Stage their Scenes

Today’s video is a scene analysis and video essay on staging and blocking your scenes like Spielberg’s Minority Report, Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and Inarritu’s Birdman.

There are a few secrets to directing a cinematic scene. Above basic filmmaking theory is the actual craft of filmmaking, which includes staging and blocking your scenes in your films or television shows.
This is something you can learn without the need for film school because composition in film is something you can only learn through careful film analysis and on set experience as a director.

Blocking in film can seem simple enough until you actually step on set, and that’s when you learn that directing a movie is far from easy. Our video essay and film analysis explains some of the profound and subtextual decisions made during scenes in Spielberg’s Minority Report, Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and Inarritu’s Birdman.

Film directors have to juggle the script, the talent, the camera, staging, blocking, and they’re responsible for every creative decision on a movie or television show. This video essay and film analysis will go over blocking in film, composition in film, and teach you some of the most important lessons you can learn on how to direct actors and staging your scenes.

Our filmmaking tips will help you build better scenes that convey an idea to the viewer while also entertaining the viewer. Our video will show you how to shoot and direct a scene like Spielberg’s Minority Report, Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and Inarritu’s Birdman.

This lesson is like a free online film school that covers composition in art, directing movies, Filmmaking tips, blocking in film, composition in film, and how to direct actors. By the end you’ll have a better idea on how to direct a scene and movie like the masters.

Spielberg’s Minority Report, Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and Inarritu’s Birdman

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[NoahStephens]

I always felt Minority Report was brilliant but this scene dissection shows how intentionally brilliant it is. Wow.

[ryanschurton]

I’ll never be able to just watch a movie without over analyzing it ever again.

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[davidbramslev]

How much of this kind of planning lies in the hand of the director and not the cinematographer? And vise versa? Great video!

[hippiecheezburger]

i can not get over how mathematical all this stuff is like wtf mind blowing, the three directors are geniuses in the work that they do

[bluegiant]

This just popped up in my recommended feed and I can't tell you how happy I am that it did. That was fantastic. Copious amounts of scrumptious information to soak up and learn from. Bravo, thank you for making this.

[martinlopezruiz]

Kubrick was way ahead of his time and from another planet, what a legend

[nahzein]

Im in love with the voice of the narrator

[MrDjubinum]

Hi!
I'm a young french filmmaker and i'm about to make my very first professional short film. I needed that kind of video, so thank you a lot. I doesn't exist yet in France. So thank you so much for your work :)

[tmcafrosounds]

Another invaluable piece of cinema info! Thank you

[neel]

Always admire the use of leading lines in photography. Kubrick is genius. Brilliant composition by Inaritu

[romansoto]

Kubrick is a genius. There isn't much else to add.

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as a casual moviegoer, this is one of those aspects where you don't even bother thinking about until someone mentions and tells why it is what it is.

[rehmanfps]

Alexander Sokurov's "Russian Ark"(2002) seems a grand, gigantic and godly example of Film Blocking.
To name a few:Hitchcock, PT Anderson, Tarantino, Jonathan Nolan and Wong-kar-Wai intrigue me always with their blocking.
This is becoming the best film analysis, film making channel.

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11:52 inarritu recieving an academy award with that soundtrack was so cinematic and Powerfull kudos to studio binder and team

[R._Thornhill]

Wow. I studied film in college. Never did I see such intricacy as you present. It just goes to show that the more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Well done.

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That narrator... Would love him to narrate my life, almost like The Stanley Parable

[Lucreaux]

Children of Men is one of my favorite movies. The blocking and staging are brilliantly done.

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I can't believe nobody has followed your narrative production. Audio is really a lunch pin for good "suck you in" production. Also love the topics of lesson. So appreciate and admire your skills.