Uploaded January 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Clickbait title: This One Weird Trick Is The Reason Movies Even Work

There's something cathartic about drilling all the way down to the fundamentals. Not just the basic techniques, but the actual fundamentals, the bedrock of how something even functions in the first place, the reason why a series of edits can be used to tell a story rather than simply turning into abstract mush. It's also surprisingly challenging, like explaining what hands are.

Written and performed by Dan Olson

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