David Fincher: Into The Darkness
David Fincher's wonderful House of Cards is very dark. Dark in content, dark in tone and especially dark in visual aesthetics. Characters are shrouded in low light levels even in...
Author: Vashi Nedomansky, ACE
7 European Directors’ Average Shot Length
[caption id="attachment_1803" align="alignnone" width="893"] Bela Tarr's film The Turin Horse (2011) has an ASL of 229 seconds[/caption] The average shot length is calculated from all films by each of the...
Cinefex – The Movie Special Effects Magazine
Cinefex is an amazing quarterly magazine that came out in March 1980. Growing up...I remember trolling my local bookstore in Detroit and always hoping that the new edition of this...
#VashiVisuals Giveaway –
10 Free DSLR Cinema Books
To celebrate the 6th month of the Vashi Visuals Blog launch...I'm giving away 10 FREE copies of "DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Large Sensor Video Cameras" by Kurt...
Billy Wilder Likes Long Takes
(Average Shot Length)
[caption id="attachment_1724" align="alignnone" width="536"] Billy Wilder edited "The Apartment" in one week[/caption] Vashi Nedomansky vashivisuals.com @vashikoo
Video Remixes: Edit To
Creatively Reboot Your Brain
Sometimes an editor/creative person/human being needs to reboot his mental computer. Often when work crushes you down with its repetitiveness and sheer volume...one can get stuck in a place of...
Creative Inspiration Through Podcasts
Often when I'm doing paperwork, logging footage, color grading or locating the source of weird smells in my studio (cats leaving "presents")...I will listen to a podcast. There are so...
Raiders of the Lost Ark – Analysis Part 1
The Long Take
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) is for me, the quintessential action/adventure film. It contains 1459 individual shots and has an Average Shot Length of 4.6 seconds. There are several...
Stanley Kubrick at LACMA: The Final Day
After an amazing 6 month run...The Stanley Kubrick Exhibit at LACMA has closed. The most comprehensive collection of Kubrick's equipment, scripts, props, documents, photos and more has been situated 10...
Hitchcock versus Harlin: Shot by Shot
[caption id="attachment_1432" align="aligncenter" width="893"] Hitchcock liked it wide and voyeruistic compared to Harlin's tight and visceral style.[/caption] VERTIGO (1958) directed by Alfred Hitchcock DEEP BLUE SEA (1999) directed by Renny...