Centre framing, Colour and Editing to Create Story.
Cuts every 1.8 seconds, frenetic movement, multiple threads – and yet you can always follow the action. Vashi Nedomansky‘s video analysis reveals the secret: the action is always in the middle of the frame, so your eye never has to wander:
Fandor breaks down the film’s stunning colour palette (going, funnily enough, in the opposite direction to director George Miller):
This is what the director shot. He might have intended something else, but this is what I feel about this footage.
Margaret Sixel to NPR:
It’s only a 5-minute listen, but editor Margaret Sixel‘s chat to NPR is revealing about both Fury Road and film editing more universally:
Further Viewing
Maria Lewis‘ glorious thread spans everything from the bananas production to the powerfully feminist significance of Fury Road (scroll up and down to get it all – and if Twitter isn’t your thing, here it is in reader form):
Behind-the-scenes, pre-CGI Fury Road production Mad-ness (via Reconsidering Cinema):