Pacing in Film - Writing, Establishing Shots, Dialogue, and Action 

I think it's a mix of both, how fast story beats come at the viewer and the edit, if you think about Baby Driver, the editing is quick, and action scenes come at you every 10 minutes, whereas something like Stalker would hold a shot for 8 minutes with no editing, holding on one thing. Also (just an opinion) but I think slow pacing is a great thing. Something like Jeanne Dielman, 3 hours and 30 minutes of the same few scenes 3 times. The film works, because it's soooo slow and long so SPOILERS, when she snapped and kills her customer, it has more impact. Good Slow Pacing: Mirror (1975) (about 90 minutes) Stalker (1979) (about 3 hours) Jeanne Dielman (about 3 hours and 20 minutes) 2001: A Space Odyssey (about 2 hours and 30 minutes) Eraserhead (about 90 minutes) Good Fast Pacing: Baby Driver Hot Fuzz Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie The Lego Movie Kill Bill vol. 1

i had a problem with the pacing of this video

Gosh i just thinking about marvel when he said about movies that paced too quickly, and then it suddenly shows that it did. Ahahaha

I'm having some trouble pacing my story right now (doesn;t help i'm a month past my deadline, still less than halfway done) the insights on building up character and world *around* violence, and keeping violence to a minimum to give it maximum impact, as well as the note that torture scenes, after showing it explicitly, need to be implied or exhaust the audience and therefore interest in your story. This was super helpful, thanks! Keep up the good work my dude!

I really love slow movies ,I feel i am experiencing the character moments and the situation

great content

Very good and accurate video. I would include in good pacing some of James Bond movies and some of Bourne movies. Btw.. a comparison Bond vs Bourne would be great. An example of slow-paced movies are Eyes Wide Shut and A space Odyssey from Kubrick. Tough, these movies are high quality since they reside in maybe the most philosophical concept of genesys and an original perspective of Illuminati. I think that it takes an exceptionall skil to create a great movie using a slow pace and the best example are Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson and maybe Lynch. A very good end twist could also rise the quality of a movie considering a slow course of events. Can't wait for more videos!

Joker had great pacing.

Well explained.

I liked this video's pacing, haha

I love these type of pist abkut our art

Thanks for this video. It's great

Thx bro, great video.

Can you name the background music?

Can you recommend me best fast pacing movies ?

I have toagree with you. The pacing trend has shifted. But I feel the solution ckuld be in the dialog. I aee more films with dialig with nothing to say.As Robert McKee says.

Thanks for this interesting analysis and food for thought! I just want to add my useless 2 cents - the music really also affects the pacing just as much as visual elements. I might recommend varying the musical choice here. It was a bit grating after a few minutes of the same track!

I'd say Back to the Future is the best paced film I've ever seen. Not a single scene was boring, repetitive or drawn out. And they all added something to the story going forward.

Really awesome video Derek. You did not mention Shawshank Redemption which is the best paced movie as well as the best movie ever made in the history of our planet.

Incredible video! Seriously underrated! I just wanted to bring up Django Unchained, since you mentioned it having good pacing. I have to disagree. I really love Quentin Tarantino, and I do always enjoy Django Unchained, but it is my least favorite film of his (haven’t seen Jackie Brown yet though). Mostly because of the pacing issues. I feel like it switches from slow paced to fast paced kind of often. It has always bothered me, and keeps me from getting really drawn in to the story (but like I said, I enjoy it and don’t dislike it by any means). What do you think of this?

Slow pacing does not mean its a bad film

Slow pacing for me actually makes a longer film feel shorter. Heat is 20 minutes longer than The Dark Knight, but it goes by way faster. TDK’s constant set pieces and fast pacing becomes exhausting

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Great video but the elevator music, though... that was bad choice.

In my opinion "Pacing means that audiences don't loose focus in the movie whether the movie is moving fast or slow". Eg: The Dark Knight, Red Eye, The Social Network

I disagree with your take on The Silence, the 'we get it' was kinda derogatory I felt. Everything else was great.

I came here after watching The Irishman also made by Martin Scorsese, because the pacing felt very off. I guess he's just getting old. :P

2001 space odyssey is so fuckin slow

Transformers 1 and 2 have arguable the best pacing of any movie ever in my opininion with 3 and up having bad pacing and the walburg movies having hands down the worst pacing of any movie ever

imo death proof is a evidence on the fact that even tarantino used bad pacing. the movie is so slow and filled with unnecessary scenes which dont benefit anything at all

I dont think you understand what pacing is and in fact I doubt you have ever shot a narrative. You are confusing repetition of information, the length of a scene , the rhythm of editing and actual pacing, which is the selection of scene length, mostly by the screenwriter, to emphasise the importance of certain moments in the story while cutting secondary stuff short, so that they appear to be such. For very important but naturally short events (such as a person being shot for example), pacing is faked by shooting extra coverage so that the editor can make a long visual introduction to the important moment. Being a cinefile and a filmmaker are two different tings mate.

You talk too slow.

I think sicario is a boring movie and badly paced