Spielberg's 3 Editing Tricks That Rewire Your Brain
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I think Directors can hack your brain and I dove deep to see if I could prove it. In this video I dive into books, movies and neuroscience research to find out what tricks Directors and Editors might be using to change people's thoughts and emotions.
If you like movies like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with Harrison Ford, Jurassic Park with Sam Neil and Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks you will get a kick out of seeing how these edit points have been working on your emotions.
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Books:
Murch, W. In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (2nd ed., Silman-James Press, 2001)
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Truffaut, F. Hitchcock/Truffaut (Simon & Schuster)
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McKee, R. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 1997)
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Truby, J. The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Faber & Faber, 2007)
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Film Gear:
Camera - Panasonic s1ii
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Lens - Sigma 24-70
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Key Light - Aputure Storm 400x
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Memory - Samsung t5 SSD
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RESEARCH
Hasson, U., Nir, Y., Levy, I., Fuhrmann, G., & Malach, R. (2004). Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision. Science, 303(5664), 1634-1640.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
Nummenmaa, L., Glerean, E., Viinikainen, M., Jääskeläinen, I. P., Hari, R., & Sams, M. (2012). Emotions promote social interaction by synchronizing brain activity across individuals. PNAS, 109(24), 9599-9604.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
Baldassano, C., Chen, J., Zadbood, A., Pillow, J. W., Hasson, U., & Norman, K. A. (2017). Discovering Event Structure in Continuous Narrative Perception and Memory. Neuron, 95(3), 709-721.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017...
Song, H., Finn, E. S., & Rosenberg, M. D. (2021). Neural signatures of attentional engagement during narratives and its consequences for event memory. PNAS, 118(33).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...