Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 40ish minute online 3 part video made by none other than Joss Wheedon (Buffy), and staring Felicia Day, Neil Patrick Harris (aka Doogie Houser), and Nathan Fillion. It's become somewhat of a cult classic, and includes quite a few funny and quoeable lines.
Ever since Design II, I've always been amazed by how movies work. The camera angles, the transitions between shots, it's all delicately planned so that it's not choppy. I mean, even just switching between faces when two people are talking to each other: how do we as a viewer understand this as a conversation, seeing only one person in the frame at a time, one talking facing one direction, and one the other. How should the camera follow a person? All of this is especially interesting to me because it applies to comics as well. Without showing the entire scene in every frame, you have to give the reader a sense of what is going on, as well as the environment itself.
In musicals like this, it's especially interesting to me to see how they transition into songs so that everything still all flows together.
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