THE VIDEO SHELF · visual comedy in film
Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
An Every Frame a Painting video essay analysing how Edgar Wright creates visual comedy through framing, camera movement, editing, sound effects and music.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a short, eye-opening piece of film analysis whenever physical or visual comedy is discussed.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Every Frame a Painting
- Topic
- visual comedy in film
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Everything on screen matters. Modern Cinema is a HIGHLY evolved art form. If you have any interest in this at all, YouTube user Every Frame A Painting publishes, short, easily digestible, and well-produced YouTube videos about this stuff that are eye-opening. Here are a few …
wmeredith on Hacker News · 2015-02
In New Jurassic World Trailer Hides Improved CGI in Plain SightI love this video from "Every Frame a Painting" which also mourns the loss of physical comedy: [VIDEO]
vangale on Hacker News · 2019-10
In The Demise of Physical ComedyReminds me of some of the videos from Every Frame a Painting about visual comedy in film. Specifically "Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy" [1] and "Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag" [2]. They give and explain some great examples from …
mimimi31 on Hacker News · 2022-07
In Rowan Atkinson: Visual Comedy (1992) [video]
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
