August 28, 2024: Food is Quiet Luxury Now

This week on The Deep Dive: How to film a conversation between two people, the “ugly” France (some) French people love but Emily in Paris won’t show, why we sometimes need to learn things wrong before we learn them right, grocery prices made fresh produce the newest flex, and content theft killed the parody video.

FILM

The Sustained Two-Shot by Every Frame a Painting (5:57)

How did a seemingly simple shot that focuses on a conversation between two characters go from being the standard to a relic of film’s past? In this quickie video, Every Frame a Painting explains how developments in the medium have made certain methods of shooting a scene obsolete. Once film went digital, there was no longer much use for the classic two-shot. But despite advancements in technology, there’s still a need for the two-shot – and today’s use for it might even be more exciting and artistic than it was initially meant to be.

CULTURE

emily in paris is fake, this is what france really is. by Alice Cappelle (17:55)

It probably comes as no surprise that Emily in Paris or this year’s Olympics didn’t show much outside of the wealthiest and most aesthetically pleasing parts of the City of Love. But what might be surprising is how many relatively privileged French people romanticize what’s known as “Ugly France.” In this video, Alice Cappelle makes the interesting case that, when it comes to France, suburban or peri-urban spaces aren’t good or bad – they just are. For all the love and hate it gets from both ends of the political and socioeconomic spectrum, Ugly France doesn’t have to be ugly or beautiful, or maybe the beauty of peri-urban spaces lies in how honest they are about the purpose they serve.

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