Batman Vs Superman the scene where he bust in thru the floor and beats all the bad guys and saves Superman’s mom hahaha that movie was highly controversial but that fight scene was insane!
The longer I watch Film Riot, the more I marvel at how valuable a resource it is. There is a tonne of technical information in your average ten minute Film Riot episode, but I always come away feeling like I've just watched a motivational pep talk (as opposed to a short lecture or tutorial). This episode doesn't even have any comedy in it, but it's so easy to listen to, easy to follow and so exciting and inspiring. It's as if the information has been Trojan-Horse'd into my brain. I hope one day I can thank Ryan, Josh and the Film Riot team in person, but for now, a TH-cam comment will have to suffice: You all make even the most tedious parts of filmmaking feel precious (and fun). Thank you!
That trick with the "double punch" is honestly a great tip, I've never noticed it before because of the sound I guess. Will have to keep an eye out for that!
Ryan, I know you probably get this a million times but I am beyond grateful for what you do. As a fellow filmmaker, your advice and tips over the past year for me have been so useful and have really made filmmaking a practical reality, destroying the schema that you have to go to Hollywood to follow your dreams. You perform an invaluable service to countless dreamers out there and I don’t care how many times people say thank you, let me be the first to say it again. Thank you so much for what you do because without it, doing what I do would be a lot harder and a helluva lot more expensive. Cheers man
You can storyboard actions in Daz Studio, in which you have 3D characters do poses and stunts. Daz Studio is free to download. Some models are free and some affordable.
It's amazing how perfect @filmriot's timing is to release a specific video, right when I'm working on a project directly related to the topic in question. YOU READ ME!!
I am doing my final film for graduation and in my film there is 1 scene where main character get betrayed by his new team member. And this video actually really helped me to write that sequence. I will post my film’s link here after its done. Thank you so much Ryan
In terms of framing I love what the guys from John Wick do. Spielberg's always been marvelous at it as well. In terms of action though my favs of today are probably James Cameron, Sam Raimi, Wolfgang Peterson, Louis Leterrier, Michael Bay, Guillermo del Toro, Timur Bekmambetov, and the Russos. I have to imagine they all have a say/hand in the fight choreography as well because their movies have consistently had badass or otherwise unique moves/moments I've never seen in other films. Everything from Terminator 2, Spider-Man 2, Troy, Unleashed, Transformers, to Hellboy II, Wanted, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America the Winter Soldier, and Captain America Civil War. Truly badass
This is a mint Film Riot episode. Over 100,000 view video 100%. So much knowledge and perspective on a subject that not many spend enough time focusing on. There’s a lot from this video that I can take away and put toward my future projects.
The greatest part about this is that it works for every type of scene. Directing a dialogue scene between two (or more) people can be covered in the same principle way as the action scenes with the “hills and valleys” concept keeping things exciting without becoming a wall of text or exposition.
I really appreciate ryan and his channel you are the most underrated filmmaking channel ever like I think you deserve more audiences and as a young filmmaker I really really really enjoy watching your videos. Its very helpful and enjoying to watch. In all my sincerity. THANK YOU! KEEP DOING A GOOD JOB DIREC RYAN
I’ve been watching you guys for a while now, I graduate from art school later this week, and my thesis was a short horror film. Honestly you guys and this channel have helped so much. It even won two awards in my schools film festival so I guess I owe it to you at film riot! ❤️
What I really loved and appreciated about the scene was the lack of music! The sounds of the characters and the fight seemed to carry it without needing music to pump up or fill the fight.
My favourite fight scene is still the one take corridor fight from Oldboy. So good. Might be because of the one take. It felt so real, even though some of the actors were clearly missing. It still manages to get away with it and feel gritty and authentic. The hero gets hurt and struggles. Great film overall.
This is fantastic. Never really looked at action sequences in terms of beats and character in the scene until now. Thanx for making me understand that. Now I know better. Thanx, Ryan!
Check out FREE open source softwares those that you can use for editing video clips and compiling them. They appeal to frugal filmmakers. There are Blender and Natron, both used to make "Tears of Steal." You can do green screen techniques in them. Blender is used for creating 2D & 3D models and animation including physics simulatons. If you are an artist, you can create realistic props and buildings. Also, you can create realistic fires, explosions, floods, thunder, lightning, etc. Look up Blender.org online. Natron is a free alternative to Nuke Studio. Optionally, you can watch Nuke tutorials and use Natron instead of Nuke, because both have similar tools. There is Olive Editor. That is a new open source. For graphics and digital painting, check out Inkscape, Gimp, Krita and MyPaint. These are free and you can use them to make credits for movies. 3D realist artists often use them for creating bump maps, normal maps, etc. Another softwares to check out - Hitfilm 4 Express. That is a lite version. Hitfilm Pro is a paid version. If you are frugal filmmaker, Hitfilm 4 Express will be enough for you. For composing music digitally, consider LMMS as a free open source. If you lack tablet for sketching and sculpting digitally, there is the Huion as the affordable alternative to Wacom.
You guys help me a lot in bringing variations and creativity in my skills We are so thankful that we are able to catch up so much knowledge from a very experienced person.... thank u very much☺️
Thanks Ryan I don't have any confidence to make action sequences then I saw your some short films like ballistic proximity making scenes I got confidence to do it last week I shooted my action short film thanks ryan
Two of the things I’ve noticed in great action scenes is cutting on the action and moving with the action. If a character is throwing a punch then cut on the impact or after the setup for that punch. If a character is tossed around then move the camera with the tossed person.
Unrelated to the vid, TH-cam just dropped a 4:25 unskippable ad on me at the start of this. Has a yellow progress bar instead of red. The ad was for a filmaker's making money scheme so it's contextual to FilmRiot. I think I saw a few other unskippable yellow ads today but this was the first long form one. And, as I type this it is followed by a second ad from Grammerly.... finally followed by the film riot episode with a red bar.
Yes. I like that they mention that it is important to make sure that when possible the action should advance the Narrative. If it stops completely it can make the scene fall flat and feel useless.
This kind of looks like a series on "How to direct ____" and I'm excited about it! I have an episode request, you are always talking about pacing. Can you do a current video that's all about pacing? I know pacing consists of a lot of different ingredients, but a "How to pace your film/pacing for dummies" would be really cool since it's one of your main points. Also, I will go ahead and like this episode even though I cannot finish it yet because Fallout is on my shelf waiting to be watched, lol! God bless! -Winter!
Oh man! Go watch Fallout right now!!! One of my favorite action films. Good idea on pacing. We’ve been trying to figure out how to cover that, it’s a tough thing to tackle.
It's an old Hong-Kong movie editing trick: show the punch twice to add energy and dynamics to the punch. Most Hollywood action movies do exactly opposite - they try to simulate the power by adding a speed, which in most cases, unfortunately, just looks flat.
Indeed, it's a pity they chose to showcase a scene from this movie which IMO doesn't even hold up against older Hong Kong movies like old Jackie Chan and John Woo.
Hello, I am a small youtuber, earlier made gaming videos but now me and my friends are making an action thriller web series, that will be released in a month or so we already have made 3 episodes and 1 is left. I just wanted to thank you guys I watched 20 to 30 of your tutorials for the series as I have no experience or guidance and neither of our friends does but I have a quite good experience in editing. Although the final product is looking quite professional all thanks to you guys really. Hope you give some time and see our work in coming days and give some advice. We will be really thankful.
Of course actions scenes come in different styles ("shaky" isn't a style, it's just a flaw...) so this advice won't fit all. But Ryan's action scenes have grown better and better to the point I like his style way more than a lot of stuff I see on the big screen! I'll even forgive some shakiness of his cam because what's going on is always clear, even though it's fast paced. the episodes he did for DJI (the "corridors" and the "chase") are my favorites and packed with good advice and info.
Thanks man. Though I definitely wouldn’t call shaky a flaw. You may personally dislike it, but that does not remove it as a style. I would agree that the style can be abused (which I’ve certainly been guilty of in the past), but it is also used often with fantastic results. I’d point to Saving Private Ryan as the best example here.
@@filmriot It's a style that's misused waaaay more often than it's well done. To be fair, shaliness is often only a part of a more general "botching" conbination: scene too dark and/or camera to close... Fun fact: I had in mind a specially slaughtered scene in mind (Casino Royale, a fight in a tower in Venice) when watching your "Hallway" video --an even smaller space. Well, your work made me think "Now THAT'S how a fight scene is filmed!!!" Then and there, I wished you had been in charge for a long list of action scenes I believe should be improved. I still do. So if you say shaky is good, I'l bow ;-)
On my channel I do Action Sci-Fi short films type, I go out of my way to make sure the Action Quality is somewhat out of this world and also I do my own Stunts.
I have a suggestion for a video...make a one man only action film,,no camera men,no helpers..only you.. for those of us who are solo but want to make a short film,, you could use a cloning technique,fake camera movement,green screen etc
It’s a good scene but their clothing choice make them blend in with the background, which makes it hard for a viewer to follow. MI: Fallout used good contrast between their black suits and white environment so that we can see what’s happening.
What's one of your favorite action scenes to study?
Captain America The Winter Soldier bridge scene.
The battle with Aragorn vs 1 million uruk hai! And Achilles vs Trojans in Troy
@@maruko8324 legendary fight
God yes! Love how the Russo brothers shoot action.
Batman Vs Superman the scene where he bust in thru the floor and beats all the bad guys and saves Superman’s mom hahaha that movie was highly controversial but that fight scene was insane!
The longer I watch Film Riot, the more I marvel at how valuable a resource it is. There is a tonne of technical information in your average ten minute Film Riot episode, but I always come away feeling like I've just watched a motivational pep talk (as opposed to a short lecture or tutorial). This episode doesn't even have any comedy in it, but it's so easy to listen to, easy to follow and so exciting and inspiring. It's as if the information has been Trojan-Horse'd into my brain. I hope one day I can thank Ryan, Josh and the Film Riot team in person, but for now, a TH-cam comment will have to suffice: You all make even the most tedious parts of filmmaking feel precious (and fun). Thank you!
Thanks so much! You made all of our day with this amazingly kind comment. :)
_Mission: Impossible- Fallout_ is a true action masterpiece.
It's dam true
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What?
@@aduckwithayoutubechannel watch the raid 2 movie
Liang Yang is the man!!!
That trick with the "double punch" is honestly a great tip, I've never noticed it before because of the sound I guess. Will have to keep an eye out for that!
Yeah it’s a good one. Just use it sparingly.
Ive been making action shorts for the past few years trying to get good at directing it. Exactly what i need Ryan!
I am a producer looking for action director I am located in nyc USA
I always love seeing the word of good action spread! Great to see.
Ryan,
I know you probably get this a million times but I am beyond grateful for what you do. As a fellow filmmaker, your advice and tips over the past year for me have been so useful and have really made filmmaking a practical reality, destroying the schema that you have to go to Hollywood to follow your dreams. You perform an invaluable service to countless dreamers out there and I don’t care how many times people say thank you, let me be the first to say it again. Thank you so much for what you do because without it, doing what I do would be a lot harder and a helluva lot more expensive.
Cheers man
When youre about to shoot an action short film and was worried about directing it and film riot release an episode on it 2 days before! 😊
Xander Ross get some more directing advice on my channel, Xander. Good luck with the short. What’s it about?
@@PhilmBlog thanks I'll check it out. The short is about a hostage exchange
Good luck on your short!
You can storyboard actions in Daz Studio, in which you have 3D characters do poses and stunts. Daz Studio is free to download. Some models are free and some affordable.
Thanks for the advice, I'll check it out
I will be directing a feature film.
It's action, and this was meant for me. Thanks Ryan!
Elias Mulenga excellent! No easy task (I’ve done 5!). Have a look at some of my videos for advice... maybe I should make you one?
@@PhilmBlog No problem, I'm here to learn.
It's amazing how perfect @filmriot's timing is to release a specific video, right when I'm working on a project directly related to the topic in question. YOU READ ME!!
I am doing my final film for graduation and in my film there is 1 scene where main character get betrayed by his new team member. And this video actually really helped me to write that sequence. I will post my film’s link here after its done. Thank you so much Ryan
In terms of framing I love what the guys from John Wick do. Spielberg's always been marvelous at it as well.
In terms of action though my favs of today are probably James Cameron, Sam Raimi, Wolfgang Peterson, Louis Leterrier, Michael Bay, Guillermo del Toro, Timur Bekmambetov, and the Russos. I have to imagine they all have a say/hand in the fight choreography as well because their movies have consistently had badass or otherwise unique moves/moments I've never seen in other films. Everything from Terminator 2, Spider-Man 2, Troy, Unleashed, Transformers, to Hellboy II, Wanted, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America the Winter Soldier, and Captain America Civil War.
Truly badass
God this filmography is terrible. Get outside the Marvel bullshit and watch some actual good movies.
This is a mint Film Riot episode. Over 100,000 view video 100%. So much knowledge and perspective on a subject that not many spend enough time focusing on. There’s a lot from this video that I can take away and put toward my future projects.
So glad you liked it!
The greatest part about this is that it works for every type of scene. Directing a dialogue scene between two (or more) people can be covered in the same principle way as the action scenes with the “hills and valleys” concept keeping things exciting without becoming a wall of text or exposition.
I really appreciate ryan and his channel you are the most underrated filmmaking channel ever like I think you deserve more audiences and as a young filmmaker I really really really enjoy watching your videos. Its very helpful and enjoying to watch. In all my sincerity. THANK YOU! KEEP DOING A GOOD JOB DIREC RYAN
Thanks! ❤️
Nostalgia. #Proximity
Back in the day when I was 15 and binge watching your videos😊
Same. But I was 20
I agree.. I was 19 back then. Because of Film Riot.. I learned so much! 🥰
I’ve been watching you guys for a while now, I graduate from art school later this week, and my thesis was a short horror film. Honestly you guys and this channel have helped so much. It even won two awards in my schools film festival so I guess I owe it to you at film riot! ❤️
What a great breakdown of an action scene! Motivation and blocking are so important but also choosing a location that allows you room to shoot
I've no idea why I keep watching this channel as the filming industry totally unrelated to me, thank you
Thanks guys! To me , this was one of the most usefully presented videos yall have done in recent memory.
What I really loved and appreciated about the scene was the lack of music! The sounds of the characters and the fight seemed to carry it without needing music to pump up or fill the fight.
The choice to use no music is what gives this scene so much impact imo. Great sequence.
My favourite fight scene is still the one take corridor fight from Oldboy. So good. Might be because of the one take. It felt so real, even though some of the actors were clearly missing. It still manages to get away with it and feel gritty and authentic. The hero gets hurt and struggles. Great film overall.
This is fantastic. Never really looked at action sequences in terms of beats and character in the scene until now. Thanx for making me understand that. Now I know better. Thanx, Ryan!
I've slowly been getting more into filmmaking and I can say thx to you for all the solid advice : )
Check out FREE open source softwares those that you can use for editing video clips and compiling them. They appeal to frugal filmmakers.
There are Blender and Natron, both used to make "Tears of Steal." You can do green screen techniques in them.
Blender is used for creating 2D & 3D models and animation including physics simulatons. If you are an artist, you can create realistic props and buildings. Also, you can create realistic fires, explosions, floods, thunder, lightning, etc. Look up Blender.org online.
Natron is a free alternative to Nuke Studio. Optionally, you can watch Nuke tutorials and use Natron instead of Nuke, because both have similar tools.
There is Olive Editor. That is a new open source.
For graphics and digital painting, check out Inkscape, Gimp, Krita and MyPaint. These are free and you can use them to make credits for movies. 3D realist artists often use them for creating bump maps, normal maps, etc.
Another softwares to check out - Hitfilm 4 Express. That is a lite version. Hitfilm Pro is a paid version. If you are frugal filmmaker, Hitfilm 4 Express will be enough for you.
For composing music digitally, consider LMMS as a free open source. If you lack tablet for sketching and sculpting digitally, there is the Huion as the affordable alternative to Wacom.
This is the real thing boss...each time I get a notification I know there is an amazing stuff.
I don’t comment much BUT watch frequently. This one was SO insightful. Thanks man. 👊🏻
Extremely helpful!!! Man this gave me so much insight. Really focusing on “when” to pause and give the viewer a break. Thanks Ryan!
You guys help me a lot in bringing variations and creativity in my skills
We are so thankful that we are able to catch up so much knowledge from a very experienced person.... thank u very much☺️
Thanks Ryan I don't have any confidence to make action sequences then I saw your some short films like ballistic proximity making scenes I got confidence to do it last week I shooted my action short film thanks ryan
Amazing! Congrats on the film.
@@filmriot thanks Ryan to reply my comment your are always motivate and inspired us once again thanks ryan
That editing part of having a few frames before contact. The first time I heard it is from Jackie Chan's video
Two of the things I’ve noticed in great action scenes is cutting on the action and moving with the action. If a character is throwing a punch then cut on the impact or after the setup for that punch. If a character is tossed around then move the camera with the tossed person.
Wow this is going to be really helpful Ryan! Especially considering that the majority of our films are packed with action scenes.
I love your fight scenes! I would recommend you use more camera angles and add some more camera shake tho!
Once again you dispense sound advice. I love how you are entertaining and exact in your delivery. Really great job... LOGO.....
action is my favourite genre and this video was shot on my 23rd birthday
The dialogue episode is blocked by Fox in the UK due to copyright.
Same in Ireland
Yeah we saw. Trying to dispute on fair use. We’ll see.
It's fixed now.
I’m shooting a chess game right now.
I’m going to do it like an action scene. This was all super useful info.
Skeptisk The game is internal. One character struggling with a decision. Debating himself while playing the game.
SoI can play with atmosphere a bit
More than I could in other situations.
I really appreciate the lemon tip.
Don't forget the shakey-cam ;)
Another fantastically educational video! Thanks guys!
Great EPISODE!!!! Keep this stuff coming
I LIKE HOW YOUR SCENE ANALYZING . YOU MAKE ME LOOK AT WHAT I LOOK AT. ANALYTICAL MIND. THANKS
Unrelated to the vid, TH-cam just dropped a 4:25 unskippable ad on me at the start of this. Has a yellow progress bar instead of red. The ad was for a filmaker's making money scheme so it's contextual to FilmRiot. I think I saw a few other unskippable yellow ads today but this was the first long form one. And, as I type this it is followed by a second ad from Grammerly.... finally followed by the film riot episode with a red bar.
Weird. Thanks for the heads up. We are going to look into that.
10:36 please show us how to do that effect, it looks awesome!
That is very useful, something for 2D/3D animators and body actors to learn.
Yes. I like that they mention that it is important to make sure that when possible the action should advance the Narrative. If it stops completely it can make the scene fall flat and feel useless.
This was awesome! Very well explained. I really enjoyed this video.
Can’t wait for M:I Dead reckoning!!
Film Riot keeps me going and wanna do more.
Good video Like Always.
I set up an action filmmaking channel a few months ago. Do you have any tips on growing it?
What a great video. Thanks so much for this commentary and breakdown. Truly invaluable information.
LOve the vid
STill the best filmmaking channel
Hard to pick ( I don't have a favorite) very impressive🎬🎬🎬🎬
Thank you so much,Before I didn't know like that.
Awesome Video! would love to see more like this!
This kind of looks like a series on "How to direct ____" and I'm excited about it! I have an episode request, you are always talking about pacing. Can you do a current video that's all about pacing? I know pacing consists of a lot of different ingredients, but a "How to pace your film/pacing for dummies" would be really cool since it's one of your main points.
Also, I will go ahead and like this episode even though I cannot finish it yet because Fallout is on my shelf waiting to be watched, lol! God bless!
-Winter!
Oh man! Go watch Fallout right now!!! One of my favorite action films. Good idea on pacing. We’ve been trying to figure out how to cover that, it’s a tough thing to tackle.
Boy I need to see this video like 20 times to ingest all this information!!! 😂😂😂
It's an old Hong-Kong movie editing trick: show the punch twice to add energy and dynamics to the punch. Most Hollywood action movies do exactly opposite - they try to simulate the power by adding a speed, which in most cases, unfortunately, just looks flat.
Indeed, it's a pity they chose to showcase a scene from this movie which IMO doesn't even hold up against older Hong Kong movies like old Jackie Chan and John Woo.
Really appreciate your videos!
Hello, I am a small youtuber, earlier made gaming videos but now me and my friends are making an action thriller web series, that will be released in a month or so we already have made 3 episodes and 1 is left. I just wanted to thank you guys I watched 20 to 30 of your tutorials for the series as I have no experience or guidance and neither of our friends does but I have a quite good experience in editing. Although the final product is looking quite professional all thanks to you guys really. Hope you give some time and see our work in coming days and give some advice. We will be really thankful.
2:30 had me dying his reaction is priceless
wow it's awesome the real tuitor of film action knowledge
Excellent breakdown, nice job guys!
"Analyzing other people's work is great but it means absolutely NOTHING if you don't go out and make your hands dirty"
Thank you Bro.
Best Regards,
SAMA Film Production
just what I was looking for thank you!
Best channel ever
Learned too many things from You guys ♥️♥️♥️
been enjoying this new format and yes for some reason I watch them more on Sunday. Great episodes and enjoy being away from that "podcast" format.
I always wait for new Video by your channel .
Wonderful video as usual! :)
Yes I love directing episodes!
The best fight scenes I’ve seen have gotta be in Buffy / Angel
As always, informative. 😊😎 Thank you.
Could you a do a competition or something where you review and/or give feedback on our short films
well explained and i like it how patiently you discuss everything.. i will make an action film thou my content is about bands.. 🤔
hie thanks for the video speaking of action was looking for a least of best cameras for film making for a budget of up to 15k
What fps nd shutter speeds are recommended for shooting action or car chase scenes?
No gradient banding on your backdrop, how did you do that? Nice.
This was really helpful!
Great info like always
this is really cool fr
whats the name of the track @1:17
Cutting on one action twice reminds me of Beach Justice editing form Rocket Jump
Hi Ryan, What do you mean by BEATS... is that as PARTS/PIECES? Like small scenes? Great episode man! Thanks!
nice one ryan
I been wanting to be able to shoot an action scene for my fantasy series
thanks, this will really help
Of course actions scenes come in different styles ("shaky" isn't a style, it's just a flaw...) so this advice won't fit all. But Ryan's action scenes have grown better and better to the point I like his style way more than a lot of stuff I see on the big screen! I'll even forgive some shakiness of his cam because what's going on is always clear, even though it's fast paced. the episodes he did for DJI (the "corridors" and the "chase") are my favorites and packed with good advice and info.
Thanks man. Though I definitely wouldn’t call shaky a flaw. You may personally dislike it, but that does not remove it as a style. I would agree that the style can be abused (which I’ve certainly been guilty of in the past), but it is also used often with fantastic results. I’d point to Saving Private Ryan as the best example here.
@@filmriot It's a style that's misused waaaay more often than it's well done. To be fair, shaliness is often only a part of a more general "botching" conbination: scene too dark and/or camera to close... Fun fact: I had in mind a specially slaughtered scene in mind (Casino Royale, a fight in a tower in Venice) when watching your "Hallway" video --an even smaller space. Well, your work made me think "Now THAT'S how a fight scene is filmed!!!" Then and there, I wished you had been in charge for a long list of action scenes I believe should be improved. I still do. So if you say shaky is good, I'l bow ;-)
Wow I filmed a fight scene yesterday. This comes out the very next day...
thank you Ryan
At last! An episode with baaad echoing voice... it was boring guys to be too perfect :)
Plz
suggestions best film making school ?
On my channel I do Action Sci-Fi short films type, I go out of my way to make sure the Action Quality is somewhat out of this world and also I do my own Stunts.
you got any Guy riche break down tips?
1:18 soundtrack name pls????
More videos on directing plz
I think Cavill did all his own stunts besides the sky dive, so I think they didnt have to hide faces for stunt doubles in this fight
I have a suggestion for a video...make a one man only action film,,no camera men,no helpers..only you.. for those of us who are solo but want to make a short film,, you could use a cloning technique,fake camera movement,green screen etc
link to that exact music?? or name of it?
_The Incredible Mission Impossible Fallout_
It’s a good scene but their clothing choice make them blend in with the background, which makes it hard for a viewer to follow. MI: Fallout used good contrast between their black suits and white environment so that we can see what’s happening.