Rules: the 180° rule

Rules: the 180° rule

No one likes rules, we all want to be “free” and follow just our “feelings”. So if our gut tells us how what is best for the particular scene, why bother about rules?Well, what are in the end rules? Simply common patterns in the works of the...
How to create depth

How to create depth

Of course films are two dimensional projections and the third dimension we see it’s fake, just an illusion created by our minds.Yet it’s a fundamental illusion that is necessary to believe to the story we are being told is true. It’s a concept deeply...
Film genres

Film genres

There are only two genres of films: well done, not well done.The well done, even when they seems to be talking of some other thing, actually they talk about us. Of course the well done films are not those which merely respect the rules: on the contrary, this concept...
The birth of Cinema

The birth of Cinema

This art could be born only after enough technical and scientific knowledge was reached by humanity.Yet we could also say that it was present from the beginning, even in the oldest cave and in the very first image panted on a rock.Let’s delve deep into the...