Jacob T. Swinney
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Watch: Quentin Tarantino’s Visual References
Jacob T. Swinney scratches the surface of Quentin Tarantino’s copious visual allusions/steals (depending on how you feel about his work) in this neatly split-screened video. Scenes, characters, costumes and even title cards all have their precedents.
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 7, 2016 -
Watch: Dutch Angles, Measured by Degree
In his latest video essay, the prolific Jacob T. Swinney pulls off a nifty trick in assembling a variety of dutch angles from film history. Instead of just stringing them together, he measures the angle of the camera by degree, quantifying extremity of effect in numbers.
by Vadim Rizov on Sep 3, 2015 -
Watch (and Listen): Hearing A Nightmare on Elm Street
In our second Jacob T. Swinney video post of the day, here’s the critic and filmmaker’s tribute to the late Wes Craven, in the form of an analysis of the director’s use of sound in his horror classic. From the video’s notes: The first horror movie I ever watched was Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street”. Being a child, the film frightened me so badly that I didn’t view another horror film until my teen years. Despite the obvious tormentors of a man with a burned face, gravity defying whirlpools of blood, and a dying teen being dragged around […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 1, 2015 -
Watch: POV Shots in the Coen Brothers’ Films
Here’s another nifty video from Jacob T. Swinney, this time bookending an assembly of the Coen brothers’ numerous POV with montages of their many dashboard-driving shots.
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 1, 2015 -
Watch: 55 Films’ First and Final Shots Side by Side
This video by Jacob T. Swinney is exactly what it sounds like: the first and last shots from 55 films paired side by side in splitscreen. There are obviously deliberate parallels (Rosamund Pike, before and after the discovery of Amazing Amy’s true nature in Gone Girl), color scheme parallels indicative of overall palette obsessiveness (Her), and shots which have no real connection but which trigger a lot of memories of the films involved. The music, regrettably, is from Thomas Newman’s American Beauty score.
by Vadim Rizov on Mar 18, 2015
