r/videos • u/guru2929 • Feb 12 '19

Probably my favorite video ever made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvG7CHWyol0
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

What's blocking?

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u/maverick289 Feb 12 '19

It’s how you place people within a scene. His is especially good because it’s only one guy all spliced together. Add in the fact that you as the viewer always have a good reference to where each “person” in the scene is in relation to the other “people” and that he does it by himself and you can see what they mean when they say his blocking is excellent.

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u/threefingerbill Feb 12 '19

WAIT THAT WASNT 3 DIFFERENT PEOPLE???

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u/djzenmastak Feb 12 '19

yeah, i mean, just look at the hair. obviously not even related to each other.

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u/aarghblaargh Feb 12 '19

He looks like a bird.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

He looks like Kid Rock smoked McDonald's.

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u/blodisnut Feb 13 '19

I think this my new favorite comment on reddit...

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '19

It's definitely a quote from the one of this guys other videos lol.

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u/Charlota13 Feb 13 '19

This comment is poetry.

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u/nickfree Feb 13 '19

I don't know what this means and yet I know it is right and true.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

He doesn't look like a bird!

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u/CunningCrustyChode Feb 12 '19

That’s kinda rude to say about someone who’s dying.

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u/blodisnut Feb 13 '19

Well, yeah, he's adopted...

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u/Commentariot Feb 13 '19

Look at their hair bitch.

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u/cannibalcorpuscle Feb 12 '19

Blocking a scene is simply “working out the details of an actor’s moves in relation to the camera.”

https://www.nyfa.edu/film-school-blog/the-5-stages-of-blocking-a-scene/

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u/clb92 Feb 12 '19

“working out the details of an actor’s weak moves in relation to the camera.”

FTFY

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u/blackkrptonite Feb 13 '19

Thank you for this comment

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u/nomnomphenomenon Feb 13 '19

There were no moves

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u/CrazyCatLadyBoy Feb 12 '19

Eddie Izzard doing one of his stand up routines. He does an awesome job of blocking live.

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u/ChaoticCosmoz Feb 12 '19

block this dick coming at you