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No show on TV right now comes close to being as good at episode-naming as #LegendsofTomorrow

Not.

Even.

Close.

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Wanna see a cool party trick?

Watch Belinda's pant leg and shoes as the focus racks from Abena to the Doctor and back again.

#DoctorWho rack focus 1/2

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PUUUUUUUUULL!

All week we're looking at rack focuses, and we kick off with some very pretty and practical uses of the rack from #InterviewwiththeVampire Season 1.

Check the substack for the many ways this scene pulls focus.

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This small camera drift and focus pull back and forward as Jade (Erin Kellyman) turns to look at Kit (Ruby Cruz) puts us in Jade’s point of view, without literally putting us in her point of view.

We’re ‘with’ Jade’s thoughts the whole way.

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The Way of Water - how #SHRINKING's pilot episode traces character journeys through H2O.

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What if your shots make it suuuuuuper obvious a character has POOF! disappeared mid-scene? How do you fix it?

We look at this scene from #Shrinking to find out!

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@capybaroness Do both Mammas Mia count . . .

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R-a-y-l-a-n . . . CRAAAAASH

How do two very different shows and scenes create surprise + chaos in similar ways?

Follow us into our look at Pride (2014) and Justified 3.01 "The Gunslinger" to find out.

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Revisiting our thread about #TheMummy's bookcase stunt, and re-digging up this BTS insight, is such a treat!

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How #OnlyMurdersintheBuilding tells the story of several years in two transitions, and one shot.

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what’s the best line read in television history?

we’ll start

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Elizabeth (Rebecca Ferguson) has just received bad news when she enters the great hall.

The shots give us her uneasy feeling: hand-held, distorted, focus moving erratically; faces bulging oddly, and a hazy blur effect which grows significantly stronger toward the frame edges.

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#BigMood season 2 is out today - if you have not watched, this is your sign to start!

We broke down another 'apparition' scene from Season 1 (see the Substack), but this shot is an excellent summation of the series in exactly ten seconds:

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What did we discover from examining all 37 scene transitions from an episode of #ThePitt?

From camera handoffs to smash cuts, comedy to sound mixing, here are our learnings!

Because this is a teaching hospital.

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Part 3 of our deep dive into every scene transition from #ThePitt 2.09 "3.00PM"

We've got smoke breaks and egg jokes and DING! bells galore in these scenes.

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From one walk-and-talk to another! This #ThePitt scene transition is such a smooth handoff, you may not even clock you've been fully transitioned.

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This is part of a longer #WynonnaEarp oner which involves multiple Texas switches . . . and yes it's a TRUE oner!

We break it all down on our Substack today.

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Today's deep dive: five of our favourite shots from #BlackMirror 3.06 #HatedintheNation

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Yesterday was #MyLifeisMurder Season 2's first title card, and it was BIG AND WIDE.

On the opposite end of the spectrum we’ve got a really small-scale title card which could be made practically *and* is done in fresh pasta.

What’s not to love!?

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#GravityFalls pulls a fun visual trick using the frame:

when Bill Cipher tips his hat to Dipper, the whole frame flips around them; at first it may feel like only the camera flips, but when Dipper skids down the roof, we realize Bill has actually flipped reality around himself!

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#MyLifeisMurder “Another Bloody Podcast” introduces Alexa playing video games, then brings it back for this final scene.

This wipe transition ellipses time, demonstrated by the change in lighting (from warm yellow to blue TV glow), and Alexa now in pyjamas and drinking wine.