Werner Herzog's Masterclass 

Props to the sound guys, quickly getting him the much higher quality mic.

"If I cut the silence out, I've lived in vain."

I find it so bizarre that there are not more views on this. Great stuff.

God bless Werner for understanding these nervous students’ bumbling and turning it into valuable wisdom

Thank you for the better sound 🙏🙏🙏

This was really inspirational, even if you're not a film maker.

This is the best conversation on film I have ever seen

A wise and articulate man.

Wow, a microphone comedy within the first 5 minutes.

Yes on the note of coverage. If you shoot a scene from multiple angles just for "safety" then it is proof that you are uncertain of the purpose of your shot. You are just shooting for the sake of shooting something displaying your uncertainty in your decisions. Your lack of artistry is prevalent through the screen into the audiences subconscious. If you're going to point the camera then know WHY you're pointing it there. Know WHY you're emphasizing an emotion. Don't just shoot like you're firing blanks. I've done so before and my lack of knowledge in my coverage or b roll was an embarrassment upon my own work. Don't make that same mistake.

this is really fantastic. thank you for sharing this genius mind.

the ad I got was the trailer for the masterclass

Very good. He is so right about documentary. It has to be subjective not objective.

thank you for the upload. Werner Herzog rules.

No excuses. Save up $10,000 and make a movie. You don't even need that much. Look up the film "Who Killed Captain Alex?" It is made by a guy in Uganda with one digital video camera and a desktop computer. He has made a dozen or so movies. I don't think the village has electricity, I think he uses a generator. He makes movie after movie. His hard drive is so small, once the movie is finished and he has made a bunch of DVDs to sell, he has to delete the movie from his hard drive before he can make the next movie. Also he has to burn 1 DVD at a time. He enjoys it and makes a living doing it. Most of his village volunteers to be in his films. They can't afford any props. If they need AK-47s, they carve them out of wood and paint them black. They do a good job and the guns look real enough. He digitally makes muzzle flashes later. In Who Killed Captain Alex, they built a helicopter out of bamboo, boards, paper mache and things. He then filmed all the helicopter scenes. Then digitally put the helicopter in the sky. It is one of the funniest parts of the movie, but for a guy with no training to edit video of people in a homemade helicopter and make it like they are in the sky blowing up buildings he does a pretty good job. Other than the helicopter moving unnaturally, making turns, changing directions and such in ways a helicopter can't was really the bad part, but the guy has probably never seen a helicopter maneuvering turning and attacking. So that is his lack of helicopter flying knowledge, not anything he did wrong editing. I think they have clips on RU-vid. They probably have the entire movie, but f**k that, buy a copy from the guy in Uganda. The average rural (where he lives) Ugandan is the equivalent of $81 US dollars. In urban cities the average Ugandan income is the equivalent to about $163. So buy the DVD for $20. If he sells 5 DVDs a month, he will have above average annual rural income in his area.

I traveled on foot for 4 months and he is right it changed me forever, but it is dwarfed by raising children.

w herzog one of first antecedents I have with german films... congrats from instituto ruso-mexicano de cinematografia

Uploaded on my 21st birthday!

The main message I'm getting from Mr Herzog so far is "Do not f' about with b.s."

What a great treat, thank you.

It is interesting to watch the woman next to Herzog

Brilliant!! Thank you!

Thank you Sir.

I love his glasses!

This is the earth I showed up for.

58:03 Squidward takes one hesitant step out on the ice as the wind blows chilly

I like those magnetic glasses

Great Man thank you for sharing i appreciate you

Thanks for uploading

Damn that's a long first question!

my god- werner herzog and they can't give him a decent mic. shame on u guys. thats embarrassing...

They shouldn't have used an Apple and its dodgy media player which makes noises when they adjust the volume and whatnot!

48:38 *Werner Herzog Masterglass (Brille)* (danke Florentin)

The second finger is actually the one to lose if you have to lose one. Middle finger can do whatever the second finger foes.

Thank you Mr Herzog

The audio sent from the PA mixer-board to the camera during the recordings is compromised. Now it's too late

You are such a wonderful person Mr. Werner! Thank you for sharing your experience, I learned a lot from your short Masterclass, hopefully I will find my ,,Voice,, like you did and as a person who loves photography and motion pictures I'd be more creative to tell my stories.

I just want to move my mouse off of the menu during the first clip...

Thank you so much for sharing. I would have loved to have asked about trust----between the director and the subject he is filming. Do you compromise the prospect of a good story by sharing information with your subject/actor.

Why didn't anybody ask to Carmela Soprano?

A great man.

Grazie per aver condiviso Werner Herzog. Ps: hai creato un canale RU-vid ricco di contenuti :-)

The sound.

literally so frustrating how they can't seem to make a mic work and play a video on the computer correctly, yet are running a "masterclass"??

1:13:40 - Imbed dreams and visions that have plagued you for long into your stories and make them stranger. Make the audience stop and invite them to slow their own internal narrative to match the present moment of that which you present to them in your film. Moments for the viewer to linger on.

Wow. this was great

1:26:27 - The importance of silence.

what a trip

Werner Herzog or Little Bill Daggett? (Gene Hackman's character in 'Unforgiven')

Genious.

Fire the sound guy.

"the mic was close to my face" Diddums!

understand? the word it'self says it all

59:00 people in Russia are friggin' nuts 01:08:10 - some people in the US are obviously nuts too

Grizzly Man is a true masterpiece

No Lavelier Mics?

Für alle RBTV Zuschauer: 10:39 Epic glasses moment

Get to the chopper!

So he's German and likes German accuracy and precision. Does he drive a Mercedes or a BMW?

32:05 iconic

Herzog makes the claim that a ship has never been dragged across a mountain. Actually this is not true. The Turks when they conquered Constantinople in 1454 had to tow several ships over a hill opposite Constantinople to get around a chain the Byzantines had strung across the mouth of the Golden Horn.

1:00:52

Do you make DVDs or film on film

1:04:27 - The wisdom of the snake.

Werner's Gymnasium.....

she said "eh" at least 100 times....

Is this the same content as in this Masterclass: www.masterclass.com/classes/werner-herzog-teaches-filmmaking. Does anybody know? Thanks:)

Get me the smallest midget in the world 💀

"why does God allow capital punishment?" How do you not have an answer for that question? I feel like there are things you can do in life which can forfeit your right to live among us. Mass murder is one of them.

is this the content of the $90 masterclass online??

The Emperor has no clothes!

is it the content of masterclass.com ?

A golf cart and a gurney.

Wow, too bad about this sound.

Awesome information!.. TERRIBLE TERRIBLE PRODUCTION! Bad camera moves (operators) Flash Photography constantly going off etc...

Give him a proper *&^%$# mic !!!!

Brando's eyes in Zapata look ridiculous. even embarrassing.

sound so horrible

This sound is awful

How cares whet this german fire truck say? ;-)

Masterclass?.... Shame on them

He's got nothing on Clint Eastwood.

Personally i'm a little disappointed about Werner Herzog. He is not that great. Henrik, Denmark

I had no idea Herzog was such a... pratt. And no humility. So disappointing.

The main message I'm getting from Mr Herzog so far is "Do not f' about with b.s."