Brilliant. Just brilliant. No one explains the art of movie making anywhere as well as this channel. Highly educational, whilst being highly entertaining.
CineFix feels in same vein but for ranking and Filmento is the one where it could help if you could remember most basic of things and is most Entertaining Video output by him
I always thought exposition through conflict is a good tip. Having characters argue, or meet some sort of obstacle in a scene is a great place to hide exposition.
@@dishevela I would say Jumanji 2 is a good example of explaining exposition through obstacles, the rules of the game are not explained all at once, but instead throughout the movie, with some expositions even delayed as turning points as mentioned in the video (we don't know what happened to the guy who played before and never came back home until the second half of the movie)
This would probably sound obvious to some but I wanted to add it. Probably the best way in my opinion to sugarcoat exposition is when the information given says something about the character first and the world second. For exemple if your story is about magicians show the character searching for his wand because he lost it. That will tell the audience "you are going to watch a film about an irresponsible teenager and oh by the way - there will be magic too." The exposition is hidden, the pill is sweetened and we have a character through whose eyes we will be exploring the world.
I'll never make a movie in my life but this channel has been an absolute goldmine of knowledge. It has helped me to critically view what I watch so that I can better understand and articulate what I did or did not like about it. It's the same with learning to read critically; you get so much more from it when you understand the mechanics of story telling.
Excuse me, where has this channel been all my life?! *subscribes* Three things that won me over instantly: 1. Concise explanation. To-the-point, easy to understand; 2. Incredible video editing with spot-on visual examples (bonus points for not discriminating against old movies!); 3. Narrator's voice was clearly chosen for its capacity to be heard for hours on end without getting the watcher tired and I'm living for it!
I heard a great way for breaking exposition to the audience is to have the main characters learn with the audience. Putting the audience in the shoes of the main characters helps both parties to understand what is happening and have the same reactions to new information. This also helps with making the characters more likable and relatable.
It is unfortunately one of the worst ways now, as it has become a bit overused, either by insertion of a 'rookie' character whose sole existence revolves around one of the veteran characters giving them a monologue or the amnesiac. That's not to say either case doesn't work if it is done right, but too often it isn't.
Just like with The Matrix. For about the first half hour of the movie, the Wachowskis have you asking "What is the Matrix?" and "What the hell is going on???" so often that, by the time Morpheus explains it to Neo, we the audience are all eager to learn with him. I took my little brother to see it a couple of months ago, as it was re-released in theaters before Resurrections, and when Morpheus asked "Do you want to know what it is?" I heard my brother actually reply "Yes, yes!"
@@StudioBinder I think that is typically how Nolan does it and he has to do it cause much of his work is hard scifi (even Memento is probably scifi). But what makes Nolan's use of it good is that he does not give all the information away. He explains only the fundamentals, then you as a viewer have to make inferences about the rules of the world he creates from those few tidbits of info.
In the weapons training scene with Paul and Gurney in Dune (2021), there's this scene where Paul subtly "tests" his shield for a few seconds by tapping his weapon quickly onto the shield and then tapping it slowly, thus penetrating the shield. I think it was a really cool and almost seamless way of showing how the shields work in Dune!
These videos are always such a treat. Perfectly narrated, with excellent editing and music. Not to mention how great the lesson is. I've shown these videos to my screenwriting class and they adore them
The opening montage of Watchmen is one of the most brilliant pieces of exposition I've ever seen. The entire prequel is communicated through a series of moving stills over a 5 minute song.
I love it when exposition is only shown when the audience is salivating for it! Like little things are sprinkled throughout that make complete sense once you finally get the whole picture, and then you HAVE to watch the movie/show again to see how everything added up. I can't think of any examples at the moment, but when it happens, it's beautiful!
The others and Parasite have great unique exposition in Mise en scene form, well basically most of thriller and mystery movies have interesting exposition to uncover the truth and to engage the audiences in the same time, thanks for opening my mind about this topic
I love combining some of these techniques. Heist movies always combine the visual spectacle with the fast-paced dialogue to make exposition just as fun as an action scene
My favorite piece of exposition is from The Curse of the Black Pearl. When Barbossa is telling his haunting ghost story and shows Elizabeth who he and the crew really are. Not only is the performance and dialogue terrific but the visuals do a great job emphasizing the curse, treasure, why they need Elizabeth, and how the crew became desperate zombie-ghost-pirates.
This is really informative and this channel pretty instructive. I note that you start the dialogue for exposition part with a couple of spoofs rather than the original dramatic options. Anyway, I do want to refer to the film Vantage Point, which tells its story from multiple perspectives, going over the same 20 minutes repeatedly, revealing gradually more information with each loop. It then leaves this mode behind once it has served its purpose and delivers the concluding scenes along the more familiar action movie paths.
Exposition radio will always be my favorite cinematic device. Out of nowhere, "we interrupt this broadcast to bring you the following information that is key to the film..."
Awesome!!! You guys make my Monday even more educational and I enjoy it a lot. Thank you guys!!! (Nice with Marvin Gaye’s What’s going on!!! An absolute classic!!!)
*Raiders of the Lost Ark* Travelling from place to place using a map, and a camera tracking a red line moving to indicate the path of the journey, with a 50% opacity of the journey in reportage snippet cinematography. Simple, effective, clean and, has the added benefit of John Williams score.
In my opinion, Interstellar has some of the best writing I have ever seen when it comes to exposition. It masterfully uses nearly every technique in this video and gives just enough information for you to understand in the moment. Piece by piece throughout the story you gather more and more knowledge, leaving you with a sense of mystery and intrigue about the world and a fascination with learning more.
The greatest beginning exposition dump I’ve ever seen in a film is the opening scene at the laundromat from Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. We as the viewers are thrown into the mess the characters have already created, and solely based on the characters talk about their situation can we fully grasp everything we need to know about them.
I love the use of Back To The Future here when talking about communicating critical information to an audience. But the best exposition to me is in BttF2. Marty wakes up back in 1985, in a house that is not his, with people who should know him but don't, in a town barely recognizable to him, and *everything* is wrong. Then Doc Brown literally busts out the blackboard and walks him (and us) through and engaging lesson on the dangers of time travel. Doc explains what happened, why it happened, and how to fix it. All of this in an engaging, high-energy presentation, complete with well-timed thunder.
There's a reason why you got 1M followers Studiobinder, u make an easy to understand yet rich & interesting educational videos about storytelling in cinema.
Up! The exposition is better than the movie and one of the best moments in Pixar. I do like the exposition at the beginning of Casino Royale where James Bond (Peter Sellers) meets Mathis in a Paris possior and Mathis asks for his credentials. A glance downwards tells you everything you need to know about the James Bond movies.
In the opening scene of Wes Anderson's "The Isle of Dogs", the exposition is delivered by the dog Jupiter telling the backstory of the Kobayashi dynasty with traditional Japanese paintings followed by the haiku: "I turn my back. ON MANKIND. Frost on window-pane."
Thanks for your intelligent and soul approach to cinematography / Igor/ your Ukrainain self/studying actor, scenarist and producer thanks your great help
My favorite exposition of all time is from the opening of Rear Window. You get a lot of informations about personality and relation between characters that will be explored in the entire film.
It's Always Enthusiastic to Learn from you StudioBinder. I understand that like the Opening Scene, the Exposition is a kind of Definition of the Theme of the Movie.
Delighted to see Basil Exposition here :) I would suggest Diagon Alley from the harry potter books and films. Changes the whole feeling. One location has a huge range of shops and services so its a great Show Don't Tell introduction to setting, a big slice of the world of wizadry for Harry and the Audience. Wands, his wealth, books, sweets. Much better than harry being told about things or slowly encountering a thing a chapter
A word of caution about exposition: Once it stands out like a sore thumb in your awareness you run the risk of upsetting family and friends with your eye rolling, groans, and "GTFOH!" type of exclamations at poorly executed dialog dumps of it in that movie they insist you MUST SEE! The only thing worse than a character blatantly feeding the audience information by telling another character things that they already know is when your girlfriend or boyfriend thinks nothing of it.
The whole...."hey sister who I haven't seen in 5 years, you actually came all the way from Sweden for mom and dad's anniversary?" Honestly, any time a sibling refers to another sibling by "her sister or hey brother...." siblings don't do that in real life!!
@@OlgaKuznetsova lol exactly! You can feel the cringe coming off the word (Sister/Brother) like steam when they do it. I die inside a little when Character A actually prefaces things with "You know..." especially when it refers to emotions or a mental state of Character B and/or refers to a place and time in backstory history that Character A wasn't present in, like: "John, you know what that day back in Saigon did to you!" lol
We know many times heavy exposition is bad for a movie but still many of my favorite scenes in movies are scenes where a lot on info is dropped. Like Morpheus explaining what is the Matrix, or Luthor explaining his views about god and his plan to taint Superman in BvS, or those movies with clever ways to resume backstory as a narrated tale (as with the Deadly hallows)
I think an interesting way to deliver exposition is using a sort of past-present narrative. Like, first we show something that has happened in the past, then we cut right to what is happening in the present. We keep slowly revealing some past events and gradually merge the two into just the present. This way the audience initially may feel confused due to the past-present thing, but pretty soon kind of starts thinking about the two narratives separately, and thus when it merges, it becomes much more interesting and they start feeling that they have been dropped right into, rather than told what's happening.
Great video as always. You say that mise en scene is the most subtle method of exposition, and as I have written most of my screenplay, I keep wondering: is it more effective to be subtle? When is it better to be subtle vs. unsubtle? Thanks so much!
I always remember the scene on Inception where Cobb is explaining to Ariadne how he implanted the idea in her wife's mind. In that scene we get to see that he did it by showing Mallory her totem! We only listen to Dom voice and see the top ever spinning and only with that simple gesture if we've been paying attention we understand it. Just perfect!!!
It's great when a film can find natural ways to work in information through character interactions such as: Military Briefings Interrogations Or even just conversations as long as they feel natural. Example: Star Trek: First Contact Riker - Captain why are we out here chasing comets? Picard - Starfleet feels that a man who was once assimilated by the Borg should not be put in a postion where he would face them again. Riker - That's crazy, your experience with the Borg makes you the perfect person to lead this fight. Tells you the basic background of the character and how it relates to the story, provides foreshadowing for Picard's "Ahab" moment later on and does it all in what feels like a natural conversation between a Captain and his second in command.
Excellent video! I like the accurate if comical term "newsposition" for when the nearby TV or radio immediately "happens" to broadcast the needed information. The best (and worst) exposition was Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi explaining Luke's father death and the background of Darth Vader, only for it to be retconned in _Empire Strikes Back,_ turning Obi-Wan into a bald faced liar, and creating a storyline domino effect that took a brilliant cinematic villain, and turning him surprisingly lame. We never know (or ever _need_ to know), the origins of Ming the Merciless from _Flash Gordon:_ we just know he's Evil. Except for the tail end of _Rogue One,_ Vader went from awesome to "Yeah fine whatever," pretty much. 😕
I really want to see the man behind the narrator's voice! I scrolled through the older videos from the beginning of this channel but couldn't find him in any. StudioBinder pls release a video where he visually explains a topic. Just for once maybe 🙂
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction to Exposition
00:35 - Definition & History
01:53 - Writing Tips for Exposition
05:47 - Titles & Narration
07:03 - Dialogue
09:00 - Media
10:20 - Mise en Scène
11:18 - Wrap Up
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I can’t believe this channel is free. This channel is a gold mine for filmmaker’s. So many things to learn yet taught so simply and subtly.
That's the goal :)
I agree this is unique
My thoughts exactly
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I def feel like most "film accounts" are just complaining about the newest star wars now u know
Brilliant. Just brilliant. No one explains the art of movie making anywhere as well as this channel. Highly educational, whilst being highly entertaining.
That's the goal!
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CineFix feels in same vein but for ranking
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Filmento is the one where it could help if you could remember most basic of things and is most Entertaining Video output by him
I always thought exposition through conflict is a good tip. Having characters argue, or meet some sort of obstacle in a scene is a great place to hide exposition.
ok
Yeah that's a good idea.
@@dishevela I think in The Babadook, we only learn that the husband died when Amelia starts arguing with her sister
@@dishevela I would say Jumanji 2 is a good example of explaining exposition through obstacles, the rules of the game are not explained all at once, but instead throughout the movie, with some expositions even delayed as turning points as mentioned in the video (we don't know what happened to the guy who played before and never came back home until the second half of the movie)
@@dishevela in Pulp Fiction when Jules and Vincent argue about the foot massage, it raises the stakes for Vincent's outing with Mia
This would probably sound obvious to some but I wanted to add it. Probably the best way in my opinion to sugarcoat exposition is when the information given says something about the character first and the world second. For exemple if your story is about magicians show the character searching for his wand because he lost it. That will tell the audience "you are going to watch a film about an irresponsible teenager and oh by the way - there will be magic too." The exposition is hidden, the pill is sweetened and we have a character through whose eyes we will be exploring the world.
Great advice thank you!
@@miguelfmyers Happy to help!
Nice!
great tip! thx
That also helps flesh out the character(s). Two birds with one stone, and makes for more interesting storytelling. Very good advice.
Who needs film schools when you have this. This channel is so good.
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I'll never make a movie in my life but this channel has been an absolute goldmine of knowledge. It has helped me to critically view what I watch so that I can better understand and articulate what I did or did not like about it. It's the same with learning to read critically; you get so much more from it when you understand the mechanics of story telling.
I have similar thoughts
Excuse me, where has this channel been all my life?! *subscribes* Three things that won me over instantly:
1. Concise explanation. To-the-point, easy to understand;
2. Incredible video editing with spot-on visual examples (bonus points for not discriminating against old movies!);
3. Narrator's voice was clearly chosen for its capacity to be heard for hours on end without getting the watcher tired and I'm living for it!
I heard a great way for breaking exposition to the audience is to have the main characters learn with the audience. Putting the audience in the shoes of the main characters helps both parties to understand what is happening and have the same reactions to new information. This also helps with making the characters more likable and relatable.
Yup, Inception is a great example of that
It is unfortunately one of the worst ways now, as it has become a bit overused, either by insertion of a 'rookie' character whose sole existence revolves around one of the veteran characters giving them a monologue or the amnesiac. That's not to say either case doesn't work if it is done right, but too often it isn't.
Just like with The Matrix. For about the first half hour of the movie, the Wachowskis have you asking "What is the Matrix?" and "What the hell is going on???" so often that, by the time Morpheus explains it to Neo, we the audience are all eager to learn with him. I took my little brother to see it a couple of months ago, as it was re-released in theaters before Resurrections, and when Morpheus asked "Do you want to know what it is?" I heard my brother actually reply "Yes, yes!"
@@StudioBinder I think that is typically how Nolan does it and he has to do it cause much of his work is hard scifi (even Memento is probably scifi). But what makes Nolan's use of it good is that he does not give all the information away. He explains only the fundamentals, then you as a viewer have to make inferences about the rules of the world he creates from those few tidbits of info.
In the weapons training scene with Paul and Gurney in Dune (2021), there's this scene where Paul subtly "tests" his shield for a few seconds by tapping his weapon quickly onto the shield and then tapping it slowly, thus penetrating the shield. I think it was a really cool and almost seamless way of showing how the shields work in Dune!
Along with the color coding when a weapon gets through or is blocked 💯
nice
Also an incredibly cool concept for sci-fi tech that I never even thought of
That one is a really good idea, but went completely over my head at first because it was so brief
These videos are always such a treat. Perfectly narrated, with excellent editing and music. Not to mention how great the lesson is. I've shown these videos to my screenwriting class and they adore them
Glad your class is enjoying them!
As a person getting into filmmaking, this channel is the best resource to learn about it... ❤️
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You never fail to deliver. I'll never get tired of thanking you, your work is brilliant.
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The opening montage of Watchmen is one of the most brilliant pieces of exposition I've ever seen. The entire prequel is communicated through a series of moving stills over a 5 minute song.
Matrix exposition was awesome!!! When Morpheus tells Neo, he can't explain what the Matrix is but would rather show him what it is actually.
That was a great example of exposition!
Lunchtime in Germany and a new "What Is"-Video from StudioBinder? Is today my birthday? 😆😍
Perfect pair :)
I love it when exposition is only shown when the audience is salivating for it! Like little things are sprinkled throughout that make complete sense once you finally get the whole picture, and then you HAVE to watch the movie/show again to see how everything added up. I can't think of any examples at the moment, but when it happens, it's beautiful!
That's basically chekhov's Gun ;)
@@StudioBinder hahaha, yes, totally!!
"And that concludes our exposition to exposition .. haha" What ending. As always guys, you killed it.
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I can never get enough of your voice haha it's so charming
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Great video. You should make 2-4 more videos solely about Exposition.
There will definitely be more videos on writing techniques!
The others and Parasite have great unique exposition in Mise en scene form, well basically most of thriller and mystery movies have interesting exposition to uncover the truth and to engage the audiences in the same time, thanks for opening my mind about this topic
Definitely increases the audience's attention
I love combining some of these techniques. Heist movies always combine the visual spectacle with the fast-paced dialogue to make exposition just as fun as an action scene
Great point!
I'm so glad they included "This is Katana". It's such an iconic piece of dialogue
Stuff of legend
My favorite piece of exposition is from The Curse of the Black Pearl. When Barbossa is telling his haunting ghost story and shows Elizabeth who he and the crew really are. Not only is the performance and dialogue terrific but the visuals do a great job emphasizing the curse, treasure, why they need Elizabeth, and how the crew became desperate zombie-ghost-pirates.
Always love your videos
Cheers!
You know what! That’s perfect timing 😊 because I’m gonna work on 3rd draft of my screenplay 😎👍 thanks guys, I will watch today…
Best of luck for your screenplay
Hoping we can see it in film soon
@@batmangotham6186 thank you so much 😊
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What is?
Perfect Timing!
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Enter the Void has had a very creative exposition delivery
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This is really informative and this channel pretty instructive. I note that you start the dialogue for exposition part with a couple of spoofs rather than the original dramatic options. Anyway, I do want to refer to the film Vantage Point, which tells its story from multiple perspectives, going over the same 20 minutes repeatedly, revealing gradually more information with each loop. It then leaves this mode behind once it has served its purpose and delivers the concluding scenes along the more familiar action movie paths.
You got the dopest narrator!
We definitely do
Beautiful video as always Studiobinder.
Thanks for watching!
Exposition radio will always be my favorite cinematic device. Out of nowhere, "we interrupt this broadcast to bring you the following information that is key to the film..."
😂 classic technique
The Camera Lenses Guide was helpful thanks guys ❤
Great to hear!
As an aspiring screenwriter and filmmaker, every video is worth the follow.
Awesome!!! You guys make my Monday even more educational and I enjoy it a lot.
Thank you guys!!!
(Nice with Marvin Gaye’s What’s going on!!! An absolute classic!!!)
Making your Monday mornings better :)
*Raiders of the Lost Ark*
Travelling from place to place using a map, and a camera tracking a red line moving to indicate the path of the journey, with a 50% opacity of the journey in reportage snippet cinematography.
Simple, effective, clean and, has the added benefit of John Williams score.
.💯👍
Nice, nice, nice studiobinder!! I kind of needed this right now.
Happy writing!
Extremely timely video. Literally working on my screenplay
Good luck!
In my opinion, Interstellar has some of the best writing I have ever seen when it comes to exposition. It masterfully uses nearly every technique in this video and gives just enough information for you to understand in the moment. Piece by piece throughout the story you gather more and more knowledge, leaving you with a sense of mystery and intrigue about the world and a fascination with learning more.
The greatest beginning exposition dump I’ve ever seen in a film is the opening scene at the laundromat from Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. We as the viewers are thrown into the mess the characters have already created, and solely based on the characters talk about their situation can we fully grasp everything we need to know about them.
Finally, an excellent quide. The section of do and don't is so helpful 😃
Glad you liked it!
"This is Katana... " exposition dump made me LOL in the theater when I saw the dumpster fire of a movie the first time!
That was rough 😅
I kinda love the opening shot form Sahara, the long single cut over the boat showing the exploits of the characters before the story starts.
I love the use of Back To The Future here when talking about communicating critical information to an audience. But the best exposition to me is in BttF2. Marty wakes up back in 1985, in a house that is not his, with people who should know him but don't, in a town barely recognizable to him, and *everything* is wrong.
Then Doc Brown literally busts out the blackboard and walks him (and us) through and engaging lesson on the dangers of time travel. Doc explains what happened, why it happened, and how to fix it. All of this in an engaging, high-energy presentation, complete with well-timed thunder.
There's a reason why you got 1M followers Studiobinder, u make an easy to understand yet rich & interesting educational videos about storytelling in cinema.
That's always the goal :)
Up! The exposition is better than the movie and one of the best moments in Pixar. I do like the exposition at the beginning of Casino Royale where James Bond (Peter Sellers) meets Mathis in a Paris possior and Mathis asks for his credentials. A glance downwards tells you everything you need to know about the James Bond movies.
Clever choice for the ending song
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In the opening scene of Wes Anderson's "The Isle of Dogs", the exposition is delivered by the dog Jupiter telling the backstory of the Kobayashi dynasty with traditional Japanese paintings followed by the haiku: "I turn my back. ON MANKIND. Frost on window-pane."
I love that film. The sound design instantly hooked me.
That was a fun one
"What's going on" by Marvin Gaye was nice touch to end this video about exposition.
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wonderful perfect movie examples, that's what I like from these videos! basil exposition, everybody got that lol hahahaha
Glad you liked it!
You somehow even make exposition interesting/entertaining. 👏
That's how it always should be ;)
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i didnt know that all that stuff was exposition. always thought it was mainly only certain things in act one and two. this was great thanks
Another banger! As usual…
Well explained! As always, this channel helps me a lot. Salute! 💗
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This vid literally popped up as I watched another studio binder analysis lol. Nice
Right on time!
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Riders of the lost Ark in school scene is Great example of exposition...And not feeling Bored.
💯 good example
That's teaching the rookie.
Incredibly informative. Loved this one!
AMELIE has great exposition, sugar coated French pastry overload!
haha good point!
This is a great video. I have watched it 3 times and took notes. Thank you soooo much for this.
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My favorite exposition of all time is from the opening of Rear Window.
You get a lot of informations about personality and relation between characters that will be explored in the entire film.
all in one shot!
@@StudioBinder YES!
Not truly exposition because the audience has to think a bit with each neighbor.
Expositions of Exposition! Awesome work :)
It's meta haha
It's Always Enthusiastic to Learn from you StudioBinder. I understand that like the Opening Scene, the Exposition is a kind of Definition of the Theme of the Movie.
Thanks for watching!
Delighted to see Basil Exposition here :)
I would suggest Diagon Alley from the harry potter books and films. Changes the whole feeling. One location has a huge range of shops and services so its a great Show Don't Tell introduction to setting, a big slice of the world of wizadry for Harry and the Audience. Wands, his wealth, books, sweets. Much better than harry being told about things or slowly encountering a thing a chapter
One key note to exposition Ive learned through writing. Subtext is a good source for exposition
Incredible visualization of the concept :) Great narrative & Great edits :) Awesome & Thanks :)
Thanks for watching!
Gaspar Noé films has the best exposition delivery. Specially in the irreversible
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A word of caution about exposition: Once it stands out like a sore thumb in your awareness you run the risk of upsetting family and friends with your eye rolling, groans, and "GTFOH!" type of exclamations at poorly executed dialog dumps of it in that movie they insist you MUST SEE! The only thing worse than a character blatantly feeding the audience information by telling another character things that they already know is when your girlfriend or boyfriend thinks nothing of it.
haha the worst reaction
The whole...."hey sister who I haven't seen in 5 years, you actually came all the way from Sweden for mom and dad's anniversary?" Honestly, any time a sibling refers to another sibling by "her sister or hey brother...." siblings don't do that in real life!!
@@OlgaKuznetsova lol exactly! You can feel the cringe coming off the word (Sister/Brother) like steam when they do it. I die inside a little when Character A actually prefaces things with "You know..." especially when it refers to emotions or a mental state of Character B and/or refers to a place and time in backstory history that Character A wasn't present in, like: "John, you know what that day back in Saigon did to you!" lol
@@johnstrange6799 Yes! It's such fake talk!
One of the coolest exposition in Midsommar. How the spell was made was embroidered on a fabric with images.
That was helpful. 4th wall Idea especially
Hope you put it to good use!
Well explained, as usual, thanks for another amazing video.
Cheers!
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Wonderfully explained. Thanks 🙏🙏🙏🙏
We know many times heavy exposition is bad for a movie but still many of my favorite scenes in movies are scenes where a lot on info is dropped. Like Morpheus explaining what is the Matrix, or Luthor explaining his views about god and his plan to taint Superman in BvS, or those movies with clever ways to resume backstory as a narrated tale (as with the Deadly hallows)
It all comes down to execution
That's teaching the rookie, and is sometimes allowed by audiences because it happens in real life.
I love the scene of the indio explaining where the safe is concealed from for a few dollars more
Solid example!
i hope you guys do a video on writing subtext
We might!
I was hooked from the moment it started to the end and I stumble upon this video by simply googling the word "Exposition". 🤯
Very great video today!
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for a well-detailed video presentation about exposition. It motivates me to study more visual art.
I think an interesting way to deliver exposition is using a sort of past-present narrative. Like, first we show something that has happened in the past, then we cut right to what is happening in the present. We keep slowly revealing some past events and gradually merge the two into just the present. This way the audience initially may feel confused due to the past-present thing, but pretty soon kind of starts thinking about the two narratives separately, and thus when it merges, it becomes much more interesting and they start feeling that they have been dropped right into, rather than told what's happening.
Great video as always. You say that mise en scene is the most subtle method of exposition, and as I have written most of my screenplay, I keep wondering: is it more effective to be subtle? When is it better to be subtle vs. unsubtle? Thanks so much!
When it comes to exposition, subtle is better
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Amazing exposition on exposition
Have to be thorough
I always remember the scene on Inception where Cobb is explaining to Ariadne how he implanted the idea in her wife's mind. In that scene we get to see that he did it by showing Mallory her totem! We only listen to Dom voice and see the top ever spinning and only with that simple gesture if we've been paying attention we understand it. Just perfect!!!
Very helpful. Thank you for continuous great content.
More on the way!
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Entertained and educated truly nothing better in life.
It's great when a film can find natural ways to work in information through character interactions such as:
Military Briefings
Interrogations
Or even just conversations as long as they feel natural.
Example: Star Trek: First Contact
Riker - Captain why are we out here chasing comets?
Picard - Starfleet feels that a man who was once assimilated by the Borg should not be put in a postion where he would face them again.
Riker - That's crazy, your experience with the Borg makes you the perfect person to lead this fight.
Tells you the basic background of the character and how it relates to the story, provides foreshadowing for Picard's "Ahab" moment later on and does it all in what feels like a natural conversation between a Captain and his second in command.
Just solid writing!
Lovely. This was very helpful
Great to hear!
Visual exposition is gold - always show, don’t tell.
Excellent video!
I like the accurate if comical term "newsposition" for when the nearby TV or radio immediately "happens" to broadcast the needed information.
The best (and worst) exposition was Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi explaining Luke's father death and the background of Darth Vader, only for it to be retconned in _Empire Strikes Back,_ turning Obi-Wan into a bald faced liar, and creating a storyline domino effect that took a brilliant cinematic villain, and turning him surprisingly lame.
We never know (or ever _need_ to know), the origins of Ming the Merciless from _Flash Gordon:_ we just know he's Evil. Except for the tail end of _Rogue One,_ Vader went from awesome to "Yeah fine whatever," pretty much. 😕
I think it was " Somehow Palpatine came back"
@@aadisharma4744 That was the worst
I really want to see the man behind the narrator's voice! I scrolled through the older videos from the beginning of this channel but couldn't find him in any.
StudioBinder pls release a video where he visually explains a topic. Just for once maybe 🙂
No guarantees, but glad you're enjoying the vids!