Devan Scott

Devan Scott

@dagscott.bsky.social

Cinematographer | Colourist | Professor | Director [Vancouver, BC] Host of 'How Would Lubitsch Do It' www.movingimageagency.com | https://letterboxd.com/DevanAGScott/

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Devan Scott
@dagscott.bsky.social

The hackers are now debating whether or not I correctly used the term "remux." That's my street Oscar right there.

Devan Scott@dagscott.bsky.social

My latest: a defense of piracy in the name of film preservation. It's not often one gets commissioned to write one's dream piece, yet here we are! Featuring @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social @jamesflowerfilm.bsky.social and @willaharlowross.bsky.social

mubi.comPirating the PiratesNotes from the underground of film preservation.

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Pedro Strazza
@pedrosazevedo.bsky.social

Melhor leitura do dia: como a pirataria ajuda selos como a Criterion e a Arrow na preservação de filmes.

Devan Scott@dagscott.bsky.social

My latest: a defense of piracy in the name of film preservation. It's not often one gets commissioned to write one's dream piece, yet here we are! Featuring @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social @jamesflowerfilm.bsky.social and @willaharlowross.bsky.social

mubi.comPirating the PiratesNotes from the underground of film preservation.
Devan Scott
@dagscott.bsky.social

[Spoiler alert: I think the incentives that guide the people perpetuating this discourse are at least as relevant as the discourse itself.]

Devan Scott@dagscott.bsky.social

Movies these days are dim, flat, dull. You know it, we know it, everyone seems to know it. But is it true? To sort through the wreckage of this discourse, today's Film Formally gets back to basics with a @willaharlowross.bsky.social-and-Devan-hash-it-out special. In MULTIPLE ASPECT RATIOS!

youtube.comFilm Formally | Are Movies Getting Uglier?YouTube video by Film Formally • How Would Lubitsch Do It

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A P *demon bursts out of my face* Clarke
@apclarke.bsky.social

I found these 4 lectures about cinematography, by @dagscott.bsky.social , to be wonderful, pragmatic, useful. He shows you in real time exactly what he means! It's great. So if you have interest in lighting in specific, or just cinema history in general, watch them! youtu.be/sKKQ0toDyYI?...

youtu.beA Brief History of Lighting Motivation in Cinema, Part 4: The Digital Era [VIFF Film Studies]YouTube video by Devan Scott
Devan Scott
@dagscott.bsky.social

To put things into perspective, these figures are fully an order of magnitude more than just about any reasonable production would spend at that budget level.

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Willa Harlow Ross
@willaharlowross.bsky.social

Come find out how someone would even figure out all the new (and old) looks that the digital filmmaking revolution made possible!

Devan Scott@dagscott.bsky.social

Up now on FILM FORMALLY: from the long-take trenches of RUSSIAN ARK to the boundary-pushing digital grading of ANTICHRIST and SECRET AGENT, colourist Dirk Meier has seen it all. We break down the evolution of look-development and how to build a visual language from scratch.

youtube.comFilm Formally | Digital Colour w/ Dirk Meier, Colourist of 'Secret Agent'YouTube video by Film Formally • How Would Lubitsch Do It

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Willa Harlow Ross
@willaharlowross.bsky.social

Very exciting episode!! If you're interested in the formation of aesthetic trends and artistic solutions from the onset of the digital era to the present, this is a must listen: Dirk has been a key player with a front view of this stuff for a quarter century now.

Devan Scott@dagscott.bsky.social

Mark yer calendars for our next Film Formally episode, coming out July 21st. We talk digital colour with Dirk Meier, colourist behind SECRET AGENT, ANTICHRIST, DREDD, HAPPY AS LAZARRO, and various Roy Andersson films with titles too long to recount here.

youtube.comFilm Formally | Digital Colour w/ Dirk Meier, Colourist of 'Secret Agent'YouTube video by Film Formally • How Would Lubitsch Do It
Devan Scott
@dagscott.bsky.social

I know that "the film look" [a caricature thereof] is the hammer of the moment to which everything else is a nail, but this is exemplary of why things like "more contrast!" and "more saturation!!" aren't an inherent good. It's clear Villeneuve/Fraser didn't compose around it.

Devan Scott
@dagscott.bsky.social

Know what a carefully-calibrated contrast curve can do? Create depth by allowing a smart visual designer to subtly differentiate the luminance levels of various layers in a scene! All out the window when one cranks the knobs willy-nilly.

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Kenny McMillan
@kwmcmillan.bsky.social

Y'all need to watch all 4 of these lectures.

Devan Scott@dagscott.bsky.social

Incredibly proud of this whole series - I think it's some of my best teaching - and you can now find it in handy playlist form here! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.comA Brief History of Lighting Motivation in Cinema - YouTubeMy lecture series conducted throughout May of 2026 in which I chronicle the history of lighting in cinema, tracing its development from the sunlit studios of...