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Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy


If you love visual comedy, you gotta love Edgar Wright, one of the few filmmakers who is consistently finding humor through framing, camera movement, editing, goofy sound effects and music. This is an analysis and appreciation of one of our finest comedic voices. For educational purposes only. You can donate to support the channel at Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/everyframeapainting And follow me here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonyszhou Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everyframeapainting For further reading/viewing, I highly recommend David Bordwell's essay on funny framings: http://davidbordwell.net/blog/2007/04/30/funny-framings/ And David Chen's video essay on Wright's use of close-ups: https://vimeo.com/85311313 And Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJtvuCAsp4 Music: Sex Bob-omb - We Are Sex Bob-omb Primal Scream - Loaded Tubthumper - Kick Out the Jams Rob Viktum- 4/17/75 Pete Woodhead & Daniel Mudford - You've Got Red on You / Shaun of the Dead Suite DJ Shadow - Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96 Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/FQRa/

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