Jesse Tribble

There's only one Neil Breen. We can learn a lot from independent filmmakers because they show us what we can do without money. So I wanted to study green screens, but not how to make the effect look flawless; instead I'm looking at perspective.

This is my first attempt at a green screen, using Shia Labeouf. It's the full video, and parts of it were used in my Video Essay, 'Neil Breen's Green Screen.'

I see films differently as I grow older, especially ones about love.

I hope I'm not missing the irony of returning to a franchise I've covered before, but I want to look at storytelling problems in the Hobbit that aren't addressed that often.

Maybe the title is an exaggeration, but The Office (UK) is one of the few TV shows that really captures what it's like to work with other people, especially irritating people.

The more I watch The Office, the more I discover a subtle dynamic between the camera and the characters: movement, framing and, of course, looking at the camera. This is just a small fraction of the show's cinematography.

Why does a television show get worse over time? In this video essay, I explore what made The Office so great in previous seasons and what makes it so "mundane" in recent seasons. It's still very good, but not as good as it was. And I think you can apply these points to any sitcom.

Irreversible is an incredible film that I would recommend to no one. It's brutal, painful, and nauseating. But it's worth looking at with honesty.

When a franchise contains the highest grossing film of all time, it's worth exploring how that happened. There's a lot of discourse surrounding the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but its success was not accidental. In this video, I look at the rough patches of adapting Marvel comics, and how the MCU got to be so popular.