So I took your advice and watched the movie with my mother, and she pointed out something that I never noticed in my first two viewings of the film. Not once, at any point, does any single character mention the word "love". In a movie almost entirely about love, both between the mother and father, and the mother and her children, not once is the word "love" even mentioned. Not once does she say she loves her children. Instead, she spends the entire film showing how much she truly loves and cares for them. Which is a big reason why Wolf Children is just so beautiful and affecting.

Not sure how I got to this channel, but I am never leaving. Ever.

Your channel is a paradise for everyone who loves film and animation.

*Sees Wolf Children* ~Starts to sob immensely

God damn it, you got me crying at that scene from 'Up' again.

Wolf Children is a god damn masterpiece and not enough people know about it.

That song from the Wolf Children scene is fucking beautiful. Absolutely love it.

The way you can tangent from a small, obscure shot in a movie to a near-encyclopaedic list of similar examples is incredible. Wolf Children in particular is a great choice; I've seen it multiple times and every viewing brings with it a new detail to focus on. The one that gets me every time is when (mini spoiler) Ame finally embraces his instinct to hunt, but ends up falling into a river. The key thing is that he trips on the scarf i.e. the only piece of human apparel on him, which beautifully sums up the character's path throughout the rest of the film.

interesting to note that in the western animation time is implied to pass moving left to right wheras the japanese time passes right to left. following the prevalent direction in which we read. maybe in chinese or other cultures it may move vertically?

"the end will probably make you cry" the end? try every 10 minutes

Now I'm all emotional and stuff for remembering the progression of Wolf Children and that scene in Up. Both are tearjerkers. And A-mazing.

Wolf's Children really hit me in the gut pretty early in. I don't want to spoil it, but you could probably get a whole entire other video out of that particular scene.

I don't know it has already been mentioned: I think, the Scorsese Shot suggests so much intimacy because we accompany the character and give him some privacy by stepping aside. It is a very intimate phonecall and as a bystander you would automatically avert yourself to simulate some privacy. THis is exactly what happens here. the audience looks along the hallway and outside the door rather than impolitely staring at the character

Fuck man, just seeing that scene again almost made me cry. I cried like a little bitch for an hour straight after seeing this film, such a great movie! ^^

Wolf Children fucked me up fam. Last anime to just tear me apart like that was "5 Centimeters per Second", and that one kind of just felt like the whole point of it was just to break you down little by little lol.

Straight up I ugly cried my face off during this movie. Thanks for this analysis, it was really nice.

I'm so glad I found this channel

Thank you for shitting on the slider shots. Seriously.

Hosoda is a master at this shot. I had seen a lot of films use this shot, but it had never stuck out to me until I saw Summer Wars. It's nowhere near as good as Wolf Children, one of my three favorite anime films (even if I will defend it on its own merits as a great blockbuster-y film), but there is a horizontal tracking shot in it that is just perfect, moving from the rest of the family to our two leads and setting up a very intimate, heartfelt moment. It caught my eye and made me realize how evocative this shot can be when used properly.

My favourite moment in Wolf Children is the snow scene, the mix of sound and visual makes me tear up every time.

God you are right, that one shot from UP was tough as heck. The entire buildup before it made it much stronger but even seeing it here in an isolated manner is amazingly effective. That whole intro block of the movie was what made it work. And the shot in Wolf Children is similarly effective. Haven't seen it though, gotta go watch it.

This is the best film channel in all of KZfaq. And its a shame when you realize must ppl doing film analysis here does not know shit. You cant go back from this to watch a loser say a movie "feels to scripty" . Does anyone now more channels like this ? i know a few like but mostly are tutorial channels for film, like Film Riot. If anyone knows more channels like this can you please share.

As one of the most prominent and seminal essay youtube channels, I really miss Every Frame a Painting. The amount of references they added... I discovered so much! I watched Wolf Children when this video came out. It has been 6 years now and it still is one of my favorites!

That 3 second clip from Up literally had me in tears. Genuinely for me it's the saddest moment I've ever experienced in cinema. Pete Docter's genius of portraying the deepest emotion is incredible. That lateral tracking shot in Up for me is the most powerful.

I've seen all your videos now and yep, best film related channel on youtube

This video is the sole reason I know this movie, and I cannot be more grateful for it. It is now my favorite movie, and it makes me rethink life each and every time. So thank you.

Everyone in the comments is absolutely correct. Your videos are great, man. Judging by your film taste and the examples you use, we would be awesome friends if we ever met.

I love this channel, so informative and just amazing content throughout.

I have no idea how I got to this channel, but I am so glad I did. Amazing.

it feels kind of like lateral tracking shots could be used to make the viewer feel like they have no more "control" over what's happening in the scene or that all personal and emotional engagement with the character is broken and the viewer is just left to watch things play out in inevitability. kind of like watching something from behind a sound proof window. done right it can either invoke panic (kind of like the falling dream) or it can end an engagement with something or someone (like watching the world move on) Btw, your videos are awesome!

I've watched this video so many times. It is your most beautiful piece and one of the best videos on youtube. Thank you.

You've helped me find so much emotion within films. It's been three years and I still watch these videos. Thank you.

0:00 - 0:25 Introduction. There are no spoilers in this video! :D 0:26 - 0:49 A simple description of the shot. It's a 57-second lateral tracking shot that shows the characters Ame and Yuki go from first to fourth grade without any cuts. It depicts Ame being a loner, getting bullied, and eventually ditching class, and Yuki adjusting to school, protecting Ame from bullying, and finding her place in the classroom. TYPICAL USES FOR THE LATERAL TRACKING SHOT (and why it can be difficult to use) 0:50 - 1:23 The lateral tracking shot is a shot that can be difficult to find a use for, although many great directors have used it well. It is a very objective shot. That is, it doesn't suggest any character's POV and it displays the contents of the shot very literally. 1:24 - 1:48 The lateral tracking shot is usually used for quick establishment. Recently, this use for the lateral tracking shot has been overused by DSLRs and sliders. 1:49 - 2:03 The lateral tracking shot is also used in war movies. It's good for showing the vastness of an army or for establishing a camp setting. 2:04 - 2:14 The lateral tracking shot is also good for people running. 2:15 - 2:28 The lateral tracking shot has also been used a lot in supermarket scenes. MORE CREATIVE USES OF THE LATERAL TRACKING SHOT 2:29 - 2:53 The lateral tracking shot has been used for more specific purposes. Peter Greenaway used it in a scene from The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover to make the frame feel like a moving painting. Park Chan-wook used it for an iconic fight scene in Oldboy. Buster Keaton used it for physical comedy in Sherlock Jr. Martin Scorsese used it for a mass execution in Shutter Island. It was used for a quick joke in Toy Story, emphasizing Slinky's length. 2:54 - 3:13 Stanley Kubrick used it a lot, often to contrast what things really were from how we imagine them to be. It was used in Paths of Glory to show the extent of trenches. It is used a lot in The Shining to create a sense of dread. The shot can make the environment feel oppressive. 3:14 - 3:28 Wes Anderson used it a lot, often to convey a flat, storybook, "dollhouse" sense of space. It's also kinda funny with bright colors moving in straight lines. HOW THE LATERAL TRACKING SHOT IS USED FOR INTIMACY 3:29 - 3:49 The lateral tracking shot is rarely used for intimacy because it's not an intimate shot. There is always distance present in the shot. 3:50 - 4:19 Martin Scorsese managed to use the lateral tracking shot for intimacy in Taxi Driver. He tracked *away* from the character, giving the shot emptiness, sadness, and loneliness. It causes the viewer to feel pity for the character by making the viewer simulating the feeling that what was happening was hard to watch. 4:20 - 4:53 A shot by Andrei Tarkovsky from the movie Nostalghia, considered one of the greatest shots in cinema, was a lateral tracking shot that lasted nine minutes. It depicts a man taking a candle somewhere. Because the shot has only one visual focus and one dramatic goal, the moment can just unfold. We see the character fail and try again repeatedly. Because of the shot's simplicity, the shot can represent anything involving struggle. 4:54 - 5:32 The lateral tracking transition in Up is probably the most emotional use of the shot. It starts with the Carl and Ellie painting a room for the baby the plan to have. The shot then moves to a hospital room where Ellie is crying because the doctor said the baby wouldn't come. Unlike a simple cut, a dissolve, or a push in, the lateral tracking shot creates distance from the two characters as if to say that we can't help them. Moving left to right implies time has passed and we can never go back. WHY WOLF CHILDREN'S TRACKING SHOT IS SO GREAT 5:33 - 5:59 The lateral tracking shot in Wolf Children is very intimate, depicting kids growing up. However, unlike the others, it is a figurative shot. The lateral tracking shot, as we saw in the other examples, is very literal, yet it was used figuratively here. It moves back and forth through time and space. 6:00 - 6:10 It's good that someone out there understands how to use the lateral tracking shot and is "pushing forward the visual grammar in some small concrete way". 6:11 - Also, the movie's great. It might make you cry at the end. Also, call your mom.

About to watch this now. Ever since I discovered your channel and first chose to follow up on your suggestion to watch a movie (snowpiercer), I've grown outside my usual genre circle so much, and have enjoyed the experience thoroughly! Please never ever stop making these. I, no joke, get more excited for these video essays of yours than I do Christmas.

Christ, this video is amazing. There are plenty of great lateral tracking shots out there but I like that you focused on that particular scene in Wolf Children. I remember being sort of captivated by how clever Hosoda was as a filmmaker to execute that scene so well. Oh and a question, what's the song that starts at 3:30?

I watched Hosoda's latest "The Boy and the Beast" today and he has kind of adopted the lateral tracking shot as one of his signatures. I think what sets Hosoda's tracking shots apart from a lot of the examples in your video is that he doesn't just keep moving in one direction but pans back and forth. Among other things this allows him to set up characters outside the frame and then reveal their presence to the audience (and often the characters themselves). In particular the scene at the school gate is interesting in that regard. In that shots he doesn't convey directionality of character movement as these shots are often used for, but that sometimes being narrowly focused on one thing will make you miss it.

I've watched a few of your videos now and i have to say that this is best film analysis channel I've found on KZfaq because you understand the visual language of film.

For me, the shot in Up that you had mentioned really worked as a kind of a "trigger" to start weeping and crying like a baby. Thought about it for a really long time and you managed to finally explain it - that trigger works every goddamn time, and I can see that I am not the only one who finds it emotional. Also, great channel - I am so happy to have found your channel. Keep up the good work!

Thaaaanks man. It's always a pleasure to watch your videos! You are an unbelievable director in the way you tell us these stories intertwined with techniques and storytelling about cinema. Thanks!

from now on, everytime i want to see a really good movie i will come to this channel, awesome job man!

I'm so pleased to have discovered your videos. Thanks so much.

Thanks a lot Tony!! I took your advice, watched the movie, and sobbed endlessly toward the end! But it's such a beautiful film, everything about it. Thank you, for your amazing content and thank you (genuinely) for the wonderful film recommendation!

Oh, damn you for showing me that scene from Up. You are a monster who wants to make people cry. Okay, no seriously for a second, your work is terrific. I am not in any way a film-making person, and I am loving the hell out of this series. Anything that can help educate the audience in how movies are made, how they achieve or fail to achieve their impact... you are terrific and you should feel terrific about how terrific you are.

I'm so glad I found this channel, and this particular video. Watched the movie right now and boy is it wonderful! I'm so in love with it! Thank you for showing it to me!

These videos are so good and so well thought out. Amazing. The best movie related videos on youtube.

Really, really the only KZfaq Channel for me that I can't wait for the next video! Great stuff, keep going!

God damm, your youtube videos really show all the love you put into them, and all the deep care you have for cinema. It's amazing! All of them remind me of a japanese businessman who said "Do everything you do with love".

This has truly opened my eyes. Keep up the Great Work!

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This was my favourite shot in Wolf Children. Another great video

Excellent analysis!! Waiting for more of these...Keep up the good work, all the best man!!

Every frame a painting... thank you. Thank you for improving my life with your videos.

Just found your channel last night, love the work man. Hope you are doing great. That music from up automatically makes me cry.

Because of your recommendation, I watched the movie. I've now seen it about 30 times and I weep from about 15 minutes all the way to the end every time.

Thanks so much Tony please keep making these profoundly interesting analytical videos. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks!!!!!!

You are the best! Congrats on all the amazing videos man! Keep up the amazing work

I noticed an interesting little slider-type shot in Drive that I enjoyed, when the Driver decides to check in on Standard's homecoming party (the shot occurs at 0:35:38 if anyone cares to look it up). It's the same sort of set-up as the Taxi Driver shot (moving from the Driver at his desk to a perpendicular hallway), and the camera sort-of tracks Gosling getting up and leaving his apartment, but the thing I really like about it is that the camera starts moving before Gosling actually makes any lateral movement. I found it gives the scene a sense of impetus and communicates nicely a sense of both reluctance and longing, as if the camera is asserting its desires in a more straightforward way than the reticent Driver is capable of.

wow this is easily my fav vid on your channel. the emotions and how you explain them is beautiful somehow! thanks so much and great job :)

one of the best channels on cinema on youtube, wish there were more videos end up rewatching them

Loved this movie glad you highlighted one of my favorite scenes from the movie. Really well done and loved that it panned back and forth to get both kids and didn't just show them A to B in isolation.

This is my favorite of your videos. Wonderful.

Made me realize why the scene from Up and this scene from Wolf Children were literally my best two scenes from these two movies

Brilliant mate! Absolutely brilliant.

Another great use of this shot in anime comes from Tale of Princess Kaguya. The iconic scene of the main character's mad, desperate flight from civilization to the wilderness takes the lateral tracking shot and destabilizes its impersonal scrolling by moving the character and terrain around in the frame, inducing the same feeling of loss of control in the viewer as is being experienced by the character.

"And then there's this..." Me: No.. Don't you dare fuck with me like this man.

This tracking shot left a strong impression on me when I saw it a couple of years ago. I'm really grateful you broke it and other tracking shot uses down so I can now verbalise what I love about its use in this animation.

For me, this is the one channel that completely captures my attention and curiosity. I literally feel like I am taken into each one of these films. Your work is amazing, thank you! also the moment you won me was using nujabes vibes in your videos

-Very great series of videos. Probably the best out there explaining the language of camera. Keep on going Tony. The Filmmakers Channel.

tony you got my sense of taste for movies and music. Love your videos man, thank you.

This channel inspires me to make film more than anything else has. I love this. Thank you.

I feel like the reason these shots work so well is that, yes, they remove the viewer from the characters, but it connects us more to the actual progression of the events. With the comparison of the shots in Up, there is definitely more emotion in the lateral shot; because, instead of being two distinct shots one after another, it is one shot that encapsulates the movement through time. The lateral shot feels more like normal shot in a movie, where one thing happens followed by another. The main difference between it and a transition like a push in or dissolve is the fact that it emphasises the connection between the two shots - that's why it's especially good for time gaps, because it causes the audience to think about the transition between these two points in the characters' lives, instead of just showing us that things have changed. It also gives the audience time to recognise that a transition is happening, and so predict what the next scene will show. That is why the scene in Up worked so well; the slow lateral tracking shot sets up the audience to see the future, expecting kids. When this is averted, it shocks and affects the audience in way a near instantaneous transition never could, because we expect to see progress, the future connected to and following logically from the nursery scene, and obviously that is not the case.

Tony...this video brought me to Wolf Children. I watched it on mother's day this year...cried as I at the end and now my mom is a fan anime fan. All this to say...thank you!

You are amazing! Love all of your videos! Keep making them!! Appreciate it!

Congratulations on a great video, Tony! And I didn't cry just at the end, by the way. I also cried like a baby at that wonderful Up opening montage. For me, it's like a married life made in haven that includes the painful personal tragedies and mishaps of reality.

I always loved watching films but never understood why. I somehow find myself here and I have learned so much. This channel and the nerdwriter are by far my favorites. Thank you Tony and keep doing this awesome work.

I really love all your videos and I'd love to see more. I really enjoy your insight. Thanks for putting so much time into this.

This channel is AMAZING!!!

You have a great style of analysing film, absolutely enthralling. Please do more.

I just watched Wolf Children. Which I wouldn't have done had you not drawn my attention to it. What an extraordinarily beautiful film. Thank you.

Multiple things to mention with this video! The first being that I immediately subscribed after watching both this and your Satoshi Kon video. The second being that this video is just beautiful in it's tones and general descriptive terms. And the third is that I couldn't be happier that you mentioned UP! It not only gives you a feeling of time passing but even with the elongated pans and the events that pass, the two remain together, it's a beautiful symbol that represents that the bond between these two will never age.

One of the most beautiful films I've ever seen, and this wonderful video just made me appreciate it (and a bunch of other films I haven't given as much thought to anymore) much more.

Hi I just discovered your channel and omg your videos are incredibly insightful and educative and fun just the same. I'm on my last college year working on my final research paper about analyzing a Japanese film and came across this channel accidentally. And I feel so blessed. Bless you!!!!!

I watched it for the second time but this time with my parents and sister. We all ended up hugging each other. :3 Thanks Tony! ;) 'Wolf children' is simply wonderful and your channel as well.

I love all your videos. Keep up the great work.

Props for using Oldboy's original soundtrack.

Just so you know, this episode is why this my favorite channel on KZfaq.

I love Wolf Children and this is my favorite shot in the film. Thank you for this video.

Recently discovered your channel. Amazing. I'll never watch movies the same way again. Thank you.

Even years after watching wolf children, i still have some tears needed to wipe off after watching this analysis.

you´re videos are great man, nice references and clear examples

I really wish I go back to the day when I discovered this channel for the first time and watched the entire set of videos in one stretch. Please post new stuff often!

Love your channel Tony... Every video you've made has so much good content! Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

Damn that sequence in up.................never seen wolf children yet but I will now. great channel, great work, well put together.

Have a great weekend. Awesome video.

Your explanations on cinematography (and the movie Wolf Children) is awesome!

You made me cry. Thanks

Thank you soo much for giving this knowledge and inspiration to upcoming storytellers.I Thank You on behalf of whole community of filmmakers. I am in love with your Videos and it grows with every upload YOU do. May God bless you. Keep on going :)

When you showed the different edits of the Up seen, I could feel the emotion hit me hard at the lateral shot, then significantly less emotion during your edits, then was drowned in emotion again went you went back to the lateral shot. Incredible.

Every frame a painting remains one of the best series on youtube. Its a cultral landmark for the mid 2010s, and was a huge inspiration for me growing up. I wish they would have sacrificed me in terms of their format and overall channel to appeal to a incredibly hunger audience but i guess thats why we like it so much

Honestly, I love this video more than all your others because you admitted you don't fully understand something. It's good to know that even the best of us don't get it sometimes.