MZed – Alex Buono’s Visual Storytelling 2

Alex Buono 以“视觉叙事艺术”课程为基础，解构了视觉风格的架构，并通过现场演示向您展示了如何在几乎任何预算下重现各种流派和外观。在课程的第二部分，Alex 提供了一个关于 Visual Subtext 的大师班，解释了“如何”背后的“为什么”。

凭借他在周六夜现场电影部门担任摄影总监 17 年的经验，Alex 能够立即解构和复制几乎任何类型或视觉风格。他作为摄影师和制片人的工作为他赢得了奥斯卡奖提名以及多个电影节奖项。

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案例研究：“SNL 标题序列”
Alex 在课程开始时概述了完整的教学大纲，然后直接进入使用 SNL 40 周年标题序列的视觉风格案例研究。

现场演示 I：自定义散景和像素棒
在课程的第一个现场演示中，亚历克斯带我们了解了他在 SNL 40 周年序列中使用的两种创造性的实际效果——自定义散景和像素棒——并展示了如何执行相同的效果。

现场演示 II：自由
镜头 Alex 继续展示有助于创建令人难忘的 SNL 介绍的相机内效果，在这个模块中，他指导我们通过“自由镜头”或“镜头重击”的例子，这给了我们梦幻般的美感射击。

视觉风格
的组成部分 在本单元中，亚历克斯分解了视觉风格的组成部分，并解释了他在《周六夜现场》中使用的策略，忠实地再现了好莱坞大片、纪录片、宣传片、音乐视频、真人秀节目的确切外观和感觉以及更多，所有这些都在最短的时间内完成。

现场演示 III：火光场景
Alex 继续他上一模块中的视觉风格解构示例，在火光场景现场演示中复制了“The Maze Runner”中的一个镜头。

现场演示 IV：混合色温
在本单元中，Alex 讨论了他在现场面临的最大挑战之一：混合色温。他给出了解决此问题的三种策略，并通过现场演示向您展示了为确保您的照片颜色均匀和可分级而采取的确切步骤。

解构 Doc 风格
继续讨论视觉风格，Alex 带我们了解流行的“Doc 风格”中的不同子类型，这种风格在叙事和事实电影制作中都很受欢迎。

现场演示 V：采访
继续解构纪录片风格，亚历克斯带我们通过一些现场演示，展示如何在采访环境中重新创建每一个。

现场演示 VI：缺少驾驶场景
在本单元中，Alex 以林肯 Matthew McConaughey TVC 和 SNL 的 Jim Carrey 戏仿作品为例，向我们介绍了四种不同的拍摄汽车现场的方法。然后，他向我们展示了一些技术，即使是好莱坞故事片也可以在不需要巨额预算的情况下使用这些技术来拍摄汽车场景。

白天外景
亚历克斯处理了预算中最难拍摄的镜头之一——白天外景。以 SNL 草图“新的一天”作为案例研究，他向我们详细介绍了他是如何在一个下午内点亮和拍摄这一切的。之后，我们以亚历克斯在 SNL 短片“Swiftamine”上的作品为例，看看如何在白天外景拍摄中创建对比度和控制照明。

现场演示 VII：音乐视频丢失
继续他对各种电影类型的检查亚历克斯处理最受欢迎的类型之一 – 音乐视频 – 并给出了拍摄它们的四个规则。在分解 SNL 短片“Wishing Boot”后，他带我们完成了现场演示拍摄，该拍摄为任何音乐视频提供了多种方法。我们通过查看高调照明示例以及将其与不同风格的过滤和扩散相结合的演示来完成该模块。

镜头选择
在本单元中，Alex 重点介绍镜头选择以及静态玻璃和电影玻璃之间的区别。他分解了他在“纪录片现在”中的工作以及他如何通过使用老式镜头获得真实的外观，然后将老式镜头与现代电影镜头进行现场比较。

色彩校正
由于色彩校正是电影制作中不可或缺的一个方面，Alex 在本模块中简要介绍了它，分享了他使用的精确正确的事件顺序，以确保他在单独项目或工作时校正镜头时获得最佳结果与调色师。

亚历克斯最大的错误
犯错是学习技能的重要组成部分。在这个模块中，亚历克斯公开了他最大的片场错误，从掉镜头到他获得奥斯卡奖提名的短片“约翰尼弗林顿”中曝光不足的镜头。他继续分享他对如何最好地获得工作聘用的见解。

理解视觉潜台词
现代世界中图像的膨胀导致了意义的衰退——我们已经过度曝光，以至于一张图片不再“价值 1,000 字”。这使得视觉潜台词变得更加重要，因为电影制作人和艺术家希望为他们的创作增添更多深度。在本单元中，亚历克斯给出了视觉潜台词的三个规则，解释了如何通过案例研究为您的电影添加潜台词，使其更具普遍性，包括《沉默的羔羊》、《银河护卫队》、《角斗士》等。

视觉潜台词入门在本课程的最后一个模块中，Alex 着眼于如何开始在您自己的作品中引入视觉潜台词。他回顾了潜台词的主要来源并给出了每个例子，最后解释了他如何试图将这些技术融入他的“绿街流氓”作品中。

Duration 6h 20m MP4

Title: MZed – Alex Buono’s Visual Storytelling 2

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Please note: Videos 9 and 11 are missing.

Building on the curriculum of “The Art of Visual Storytelling”, Alex Buono deconstructs the architecture of visual style, and through live demonstration shows you how to recreate various genres and looks on almost any budget. In the second part of the course Alex gives a masterclass on Visual Subtext, explaining the “why” behind the “how”.

Drawing on his experience as the Director of Photography for the Saturday Night Live film unit for 17 years, Alex is able to instantly deconstruct and replicate almost any genre or visual style. His work as a Cinematographer and Producer have earned him an Academy Award nomination as well as multiple film festival awards.

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Case Study: “SNL Title Sequence”
Alex opens the course with an overview of the complete syllabus, then dives straight into a case study on visual style using the SNL 40th anniversary title sequence.

Live Demo I: Custom Bokeh and Pixel Stick
In the first live demos of the course Alex takes us through two creative practical effects he used on the SNL 40th anniversary sequence – custom bokeh and the pixel stick – and shows how to execute the same effects.

Live Demo II: Free Lensing
Alex continues to showcase the in-camera effects that helped to create his memorable SNL intro, and in this module he guides us through an example of “free lensing” or “lens whacking” which gives a dreamy aesthetic to shots.

The Components of Visual Style
In this module Alex breaks down the components of visual style, and explains the strategy that he’s used on Saturday Night Live to faithfully recreate the exact look and feel of Hollywood blockbusters, Documentaries, Promos, Music Videos, Reality TV shows and many more, all within the shortest of timeframes.

Live Demo III: Firelight Scene
Alex continues his visual style deconstruction example from the previous module, in a firelight scene live demo that replicates a shot from “The Maze Runner”.

Live Demo IV: Mixed Color Temperatures
In this module Alex discusses one of his biggest challenges on-set: Mixed color temperatures. He gives his three strategies to combat this, along with live demonstrations to show you the exact steps to take to ensure your shots are evenly colored and gradeable.

Deconstructing Doc Style
Continuing the discussion on visual styles, Alex takes us through the different sub-genres within the popular ‘Doc style’, which has gained popularity in both narrative and factual filmmaking.

Live Demo V: Interviews
Continuing to deconstruct Documentary-style, Alex takes us through some live demos showing how to recreate each in an interview setting.

Live Demo VI: Driving Scene MISSING
In this module Alex walks us through four separate approaches to shooting a car spot, using the Lincoln Matthew McConaughey TVC and SNL’s Jim Carrey parody as an example. He then shows us some techniques that even Hollywood feature films use to shoot car scenes without requiring huge budgets.

Day Exteriors
Alex tackles one of the most difficult shots to shoot on a budget – the day exterior. Using the SNL sketch “New Day” as a case study he walks us through a complete breakdown of how he lit and shot it all in just one afternoon. Afterwards we look at how to create contrast and control lighting in day exterior shots, using Alex’s work on the SNL short “Swiftamine” as an example.

Live Demo VII: Music Videos MISSING
Continuing his examination of various film genres Alex tackles one of the most popular – the music video – and gives his four rules for shooting them. After breaking down the SNL short “Wishing Boot”, he takes us through a live demo shoot that provides a versatile approach for any music video. We finish the module by looking at high-key lighting examples, and a demonstration combining it with different flavors of filtration and diffusion.

Lens Selection
In this module Alex focuses on lens selection, and the differences between still and cinema glass. He breaks down his work on “Documentary Now” and how he achieved authentic looks by employing vintage lenses, and then gives a live comparison of a vintage lens next to a modern cinema lens.

Color Correction
With color correction being such an integral facet of filmmaking, Alex talks about it briefly in this module, sharing the precise correct order of events that he employs to ensure he gets the best results when correcting footage either on a solo project or when working with a colorist.

Alex’s Biggest Mistakes
Making mistakes is an essential part to learning one’s craft. In this module Alex opens up about his biggest on-set mistakes from dropping lenses, to under-exposing shots on his Academy-award nominated short film “Johnny Flynton”. He goes on to share his insights on how best to get hired for jobs.

Understanding Visual Subtext
The inflation of images in the modern world has caused a recession of meaning – we’ve been overexposed to the point where a picture is no longer “worth 1,000 words”. This has made visual subtext all the more important as filmmakers and artists look to add more depth to their creations. In this module Alex gives his three rules to visual subtext, explaining how to add subtext to your film to make it more universal through case studies including “The Silence of the Lambs”, “Guardians of the Galaxy”, “Gladiator” and more.

Getting started with Visual Subtext
In the final module of the course Alex looks at how to begin introducing visual subtext to your own works. He reviews the primary sources for subtext and gives examples of each, before concluding with an explanation of how he attempted to incorporate these techniques into his work on “Green Street Hooligans”.

请注意：视频 9 和 11 缺失。