Creative Resources
A compellation of different YouTube channels to help get the creative juices flowing!
Nerdwriter1
Provides both film/art history, as well as critical understanding of different film, philosophy and art techniques
The Cinema Cartography
Provides information on film history and the creative techniques of filmmaking
Maggie Mae Fish
(Some NSFW) Analysis of thematic motifs and symbols in film and TV. (Especially see the ongoing Zack Snyder series).
The Discarded Image
Thematic motifs, Implementation of technical ideas into creative meaning, Modern Art Analysis.
MelinaPendulum
Thematic motifs, Implementation of technical ideas into creative meaning, Modern Art Analysis.
Frames of Empathy
Thematic motifs, Implementation of technical ideas into creative meaning, Modern Art Analysis.
Screenplayed
(Formerly Script to Screen)
Shows the comparison of a final shot/edited scene of the film.
Now You See It
Film history, Film analysis, Modern Art Analysis
BAFTA Guru
British lecture series by actors, writers, and directors. Film history/analysis.
Be Kind Rewind
Analysis of the history of the Academy Awards.
Every Frame A Painting
Provides film history and understanding of technique
Sideways
Such a brilliant channel that will teach you not only about thematic motifs in music and how those benefit your work but also about thematic motifs in your own storytelling.
Lessons From The Screenplay
Provides information on the fundamentals of screenwriting and storytelling
Lindsay Ellis
Thematic motifs, Implementation of technical ideas into creative meaning, Modern Art Analysis.
The Royal Ocean Film Society
Thematic motifs, Implementation of technical ideas into creative meaning, Modern Art Analysis.
Patrick (H) Willems
Film history, Film analysis
ponysmasher
The director of Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation, and Shazam...What more do you need to know?
Film At Lincoln Center
Official YouTube of the Lincoln Center in New York City
Rossatron
Analysis of action in film.
Film Criticism and Editorials:
Roger Ebert https://www.rogerebert.com/
Consequence of Sound https://consequenceofsound.net/
The Spool https://thespool.net/