PAssion of andalucia
Why those fades through are incredible. He matches the black sky with her black dress.
Hey, guys, I am absolutely stoked today because my favorite filmmaker, Brandon Li, came out
with a video yesterday called 'The Passion of Andaluciía'. I've yet to watch it. It
keeps showing up in my suggested videos feed. And I literally have been drooling. So I'm
excited to make this reaction and analysis for you guys today. And let's do this. Enough
being weird as hell. Here we go.
Wow. Wow.
Listen to that echo.
Little spooky.
Cut to a scene, small Spanish town.
Well, Metronome, he has a similar song in his shipyard video. Well, that was an amazing
transition, cuts with the beat as she's stepping.
Wow. Notice that he has all those towers in the same spot.
Let's go back right here. So look at this. It's in the same location. So your eyes stay
in that area. He's the master of Gimbel Shots and it's shown here.
Look at that. Why? Oh, look, let's do it. Let's go back. So he cuts across.
I'm assuming either he has his Gimbel and like Follo mode or he's shooting handheld
here. He's pull either digitally zooming in and scaling down or he's actually doing that
in camera. Probably actually in camera. And then like he does, he's the expert at masking.
He masks in that next shot and beautifully pulls the other shot with it. Oh, my gosh,
beautiful.
Wow.
You see that he matched the the ham with the Guitar Center, made it for an easy transition
while through the window.
He's done that. Quite a bit of videos. What?
The camera movement just seems so unnatural, not like it looks bad in any way. I just wonder
how he does it.
Wow. It's all the preparation, all the preparing. So you're preparing the guitar, preparing
the dress.
Practicing the dance and I assume will all come together. Little hyper laptop nuts, hyper
Lapps rotating hyper laps. Wow. And that was just the intro, guys.
Wow. That was a beautiful. He just like, fades it in. He rolls up and then fades it into
the next shot.
Oh, God.
He showed his maneuvering on this Gimbel's shot in his Instagram. He's a pro total pro.
He does the invisible cut with the whip pans, so he whips it, cuts it and then whips the
same direction into the next shot. He does that a lot where he comes out of a like a
window or an opening and then mask fades it out. I'm actually doing a tutorial on that
right now. Beautiful sound of the candles and the pages turning.
Actually, it was just the candles, I think.
This is an event he's familiar with. He filmed Semana Santa. This looks maybe this is Samana
Santa in Spain. I'm not quite sure where he filmed something very similar in another video.
Anticipation building.
He's able to capture the emotion on people's faces and with their bodies so well. Wow.
Wow. Covered the camera, uses that to transition to the next shot. Those fades through are
incredible. He matches the black sky with her black dress
in his soul way video.
He talks about how he wanted the camera to act is like a ghost and he's almost doing
it here. It doesn't seem like anyone is behind the camera. It's just the camera. Moving is
like a floating object.
Wow, that's beautiful. Look at those light rays. From the dust.
Wow, that's beautiful, you see, he matches that again.
Let me go back one more time real quick right here. He talks about in one of his videos
about how you should match each shot based on color, light, motion and the subject of
it. And he does this transition based on color. So look at here. He has this horse coming
through. All he's doing in post is changing the color of the shot to a blue. He's rotating
it, keeping it the same direction, the same rotating direction. And it transitions to
the blue sky. And you barely even notice that he does it. Wow.
This is incredible.
The
time it took to think of how to put these shots together, I think I saw his Instagram
post, said it took two months to film, about two months to edit. I assume only that much
more planning.
While the final conclusion. You notice he has all these shots of everything, including
people hugging, people cheering, people crying, a lot of great slow motion.
He concluded with that final foot stomp.
It was all to the wow BRANDON Oh my God. I'm definitely gonna rewatch that multiple times.
That was incredible. Oh, he has some after credits. That's incredible.
So was all the build, the practicing of the. The dancing, the guitar making. Everything
was a it was a giant crescendo. Watching no ones was definitely not enough for me. I'm
going to watch that again and again, probably and maybe do some tutorials on it. If you
guys do not follow Brandon Li, subscribe to his channel. I'll leave a link in the description
below. Brandon also has an online film school called UNSCRIPTED Studios. I think it's unscripted.com.
So if you guys are wanting to learn from the master the best in my opinion, then head to
his Web site and sign up. If you guys enjoyed this video, press the thumbs up button and
leave me a comment below on what was your favorite part of this video. I'm looking forward
to creating some tutorials for you guys and kind of explaining how he did some of this.
So stay tuned and I will see you next time.