What's Wrong With This Picture? (Patreon)

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Welcome to Episode 1 of 'The Ultimate Guide to', where we dive into the art of Visual Storytelling. Today, we explore Composition: how framing shapes clarity in narrative, how breaking the rules can deepen the story, and how icons like Stanley Kubrick, Cartier-Bresson, and many others used composition across film, photography, and more. From Paintings to Cinema, discover how every frame tells a deeper tale. Support The House of Tabula (and join our Discord Film Club): https://www.patreon.com/c/thehouseoftabula Master Visual Storytelling with our Composition Workshop: https://www.patreon.com/collection/84461?view=expanded Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5kBJmBUVFLYBDiSiK1VDw/join ——————————— 🎬 Deep Dive Film Club 🎞️ All 30+ episodes: https://tinyurl.com/4kf9kjjd 🎥 The Film Club series: https://tinyurl.com/4hu3p89d ————————————————— 💊 Acid is Bad for Business Podcast All 70+ episodes: https://tinyurl.com/3r3kjw3w ———————————————————— ⚔️ Exclusive Uncensored Essays & Workshops Over 20+ Uncensored Essays: https://tinyurl.com/3esebpew ——————————————————————— For business inquiries: contact@thehouseoftabula.com ——————————————————————— CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 4:43 Henri Cartier-Bresson 8:08 Stanley Kubrick 10:11 Framing 10:33 Tsutomu Nihei 12:03 Paul Strand - Architecture and Framing 13:08 Geometry 13:47 Alexander Rodchenko 15:07 Painting / Compositional Grids 16:27 Caravaggio/ Diagonal Compositions / Baroque Line 17:36 Philip-Lorca diCorcia 18:07 Gregory Crewdson / Arthur Tress 19:12 Krzysztof Kieślowski 20:41 Design the frame 21:36 Invisible vs Visible Composition / Neutral vs Stylised Composition 22:39 Wes Anderson 23:29 Edward Yang 24:20 The Importance of Interdisciplinary Studies for Visual Storytelling 24:58 Video Games - Compositing for Interactivity 25:12 Resident Evil 25:29 Resident Evil 4 26:00 Composing for Pacing - Takehiko Inoue 26:44 Kentaro Miura 27:13 Notan 28:54 Vilhelm Hammershøi 29:40 Distance - Moving In or Out? 30:24 Ingmar Bergman 31:14 Withheld Composition 31:33 Michael Haneke 32:56 Robert Bresson / Carl Theodor Dreyer 33:35 Negative Space / Andrew Wyeth 35:07 Terrence Mallick / Spatial Tension 35:33 Andrei Tarkovsky 36:11 Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids 36:43 The Artifice of Composition 37:15 Manipulating Spatial Logic 38:09 F.W. Murnau 39:37 Sergei Parajanov 40:44 Depth vs Flatness / Graphic Clarity 41:18 Dynamic Symmetry 42:00 Yasujirō Ozu 43:15 Aesthetic Totality 43:47 Shinya Tsukamoto 45:00 Shūji Terayama 45:44 Fragmentation vs Structure 46:22 Daido Moriyama 47:00 Satoshi Kon 47:40 Why to Compose for Clarity 48:38 Visual Clarity 49:38 Disney Renaissance 50:20 Hayao Miyazaki 50:39 Mamoru Oshii 51:24 Outro