00:00.82 alifeinruins If you're still here. Welcome back to segmentg 3 of a life neurons podcast episode 61 69 um I went on a tangent about lighting and Stefan Milo we've had him on the show before him and I like text each other all the time like how did you do this or how do I edit that. And we nerd out on it because there's no other archeologists that I know of that know this stuff not to teach myself and like when I can nerd out about like how xyorzworks or I was like how do you add that shake to the camera so he'll sometimes he'll just add like an effect called camera shake to the the camera the video so that it looks handheld. And that way it's just a little more visually intriguing and I promise you if you go watch a new show or another show or watch a movie or anything think about the lighting how much that has to do how much shit is in the background that you're not seeing on the other side of the camera or above it or below it. 00:59.75 alifeinruins Sorry I'm drinking water over here or I sells your thing um cut that out obviously think about the lighting think about the sound think about is that set real or is that a green screen Usually you can tell like on the news when they're doing the weather report. That's a green screen sometimes a blue screen. Um, you can tell it's kind of shitty and fake or like on Tiktok. It's it's really shitty the ai software that does the the green screen but it it makes Tiktok That's why Tiktok such an interesting platform because anybody can like make a fully edited movie that there's 1 dude who makes like. Really existential existentialism short films that are like a minute long or 3 minutes long where he's just asking questions and talking to himself but he adds videos of the beach or he adds like different angles or like he'll record him upside down or like a weird thing of him like holding an orange I can't describe it. It's just. When you see a good movie like an oscar-winning movie. You're like okay, that's why it wins Oscars and in in Oppenheimer I'll say to the whole beginning of the movie is fast paceced as hell and like I wanted to pee the whole time. But you're locked in and that was Nolan's goal because you with these scientists are in this time crunch to build the but nuclear bomb before the nazis do and especially before the soviets do later on because they found out the soviets were building one. So. 02:29.24 alifeinruins You're in this rush with them and then when Matt Damon shows up as the military guy who's like hey we need to work on this together. We need you to make a bomb for national security like you're you're in this fast-paced thing with them and the music builds and I think there's like an electric cello and violins in the background I think the dark night. And the dark night rises is all electric cello um I know for a fact, an interstellar that was all tried they tried to do practical effects and it's the the best visual of a black hole. Apparently there is like with the rendering they did and Nasa uses it. Um, regardless in in that Han Zimmer the sound the the composer he didn't christopher nolan didn't tell him what the movie was about. He just said. It's like a father and a daughter or something like that he didn't tell him it was in space. Um, and in the movie he put it all in a church organ for some reason and the interstellar theme I think it's called Cornfield Chase or 03:26.14 alifeinruins What's the the main one the docking scene and and when they're trying to add the shit back after Matt Damon blows it up. Um that song like you've probably heard it on a million tiktoks or videos on Instagram or Youtube videos. It's an amazing score. And all he did christopher old did was tell him to make a a song about you score about a father and a daughter and then later like you know you'll watch the movie and you'll add music to it and Jurassic Park the Jurassic Park theme you probably associate that with when they're looking at the broniosaurus or the the brachiosaurus eye walking. And he's like welcome to Jurassic Park like that's in your memory and of course when star wars starts you hear the band but but that is like the bombastic fanfare that John Williams does which is also he does um Jurassic Park and et and all that and spielberg uses him all the time and obviously jump. Um. George Lucas did too that dude made a lot a lot of movie themes Indiana Jones like that's all John Williams and you can tell it's John Williams and it's like a can't describe it. It puts you in the mood and star wars are supposed to be like a space opera was originally what it was and it puts you in the setting for that put. In terms of doing video for um, your jobs or archeology or anything else. Sound is important and I learned this I kind of did this on my own. But then I learned that quinten Tarantino does it and I would say Quentin Tarantino is my favorite director. 04:59.15 alifeinruins Um, he's just he's so good. Dude and I think inglorious bastards is a masterpiece and probably one of the best movies ever made I would say up there in the top 5 um Django is also great after that but in in that movie. Um, what I getting out with in glory's past right. Tarantino will listen to soundtracks in his office or in his house with like records and he'll narrate and make and write a whole scene in his head based off of that music so inglorious bastards if you if you seen the movie I can't explain the plot. It's so intricate right now. But um. 05:38.91 alifeinruins Theyre in Nazi Germany or nazi- occupieed France and there's americans that are in there trying to yeah I can't it's it's a tarantinum movie. There's too much to talk about but nazis and americans and also a french woman and um christofph waltz point being. If you think about the movie. It's a western most of Quentin Tarantino movies kind of are or at least Django is um but it's a western in the south inglorious bastards is a western but set in World War ii and ah nazi occupied France and the beginning of the movie you hear like the fi Elise. Starts playing but then it turns into spanish guitar because they're in France which makes sense like he got that celtic sounding guitar sound but also it is like the guy is looking. He's folding his sheets putting him on the dry the dry the clothes line outside and he sees the nazis driving up. To his house to come interrogate him and it's just like a western where you would see a wagon or horses on the horizon coming in and then the spanish guitar plays and so that movie is set up that you're like okay, it's a western and you know even if you don't think about it. It's just the format americans are so used to the western. Um, and then again Tarantino has an incredible way of writing dialogue to keep you in and again like not to say that's what I do in my lectures but Tarantino is an engaging movie maker because of the scenes and that first scene and then gloris bastards. 07:13.13 alifeinruins Where Christoph Waltz and the other I can't remember the actor's name doesn't matter. Um Majo Petit is like his name in the movie. He they switch between french english and I believe german at 1 point and or at least later in the movie Christoph walts is clearly speaking german. But like the way it switches and like there's the people hiding in the basement. Um, it's tense. There's no music. It's just dialogue and the switching languages and you know that he's hiding the jews underneath the floorboards from the nazis and you know. Christofph waltz knows they're there and you know this guy is gonna get in trouble because he's hiding them and he's in this morally morally tough spot like what do I do protect my family or these people and the whole scene if you think about it too. They show you each angle you see christofph walter's face. The guy's face you see the background. You're in there in every angle and he makes sure you see how small the room is in the house so that you're trapped in this tense moment and like later on the music will kick in and he builds tension that way and again in the scene in the basement scene if you've never seen this movie sorry I'm going on so long about it. Scene in the basement where Brad Pitts like we're fighting in a fucking basement. He shows you every angle of that basement to show how tight it is in there and how small and how tense this room is when you realize the nazi officer realizes that Michael Fastbender is a spy and you know that. 08:50.98 alifeinruins And you know he knows that so you're wondering where this is going to go and again, there's the gun under the table is a shootout. They even mention a mexican standoff. Um, and it's a western All that said I don't know what I was getting I just I love tarantino does that kill bill too. It's like it's supposed to be a comic book. Like as a movie. Um, if that's the vibe because it I don't know his his movies are just so good. But music is intense and and timing and all that stuff is intense for filmmaking but thinking about all that when you're watching movies. Like apply that to stuff that you're making if you if you want to make videos or if you're teaching or just like I had to give a speech at my cousin's wedding I was this best man like I consider my brother and I had to give a speech and I gave a whole speech about. Anthropologically what marriage is and yada yada and like okay yeah, here's here's ah, a good way of talking so I remember getting like massive applause for this and a bunch of people like coming up and shaking my hand afterwards at how good a speech it was I literally wrote it. 30 minutes to an hour before because I didn't realize I was supposed to earn an hour for the wedding I should say didn't realize I was supposed to give like a full speech I didn't know that so I just wrote it and I had my phone out with some bullet points. But I don't can't remember it fully but I was like you know as an anthropologist we study cultures and. 10:18.10 alifeinruins In the world and anthropologically there are 4 fundamental things that are unique or if that are fundamental and seen in every culture in the world that defines it as a human culture and that is a celebration of death and birth. Ah so like a rite of passage to the 1 um, so death birth rite of passage and that could be like I think I said in the in the the wedding like we would have ah sorry like it could be like you know you're initiated in the bloods of the crypts that's gang initiation but also in our. Life ah, modern day we have um, ah sorry I'm I'm distracted from what I was getting at trying to remember the speech while I explain it so I'll just kind of go with that. Ah I talked about driver's licenses right? and a rite of passage and then um funerals are a thing. And then the last one is marriage every culture has marriage. So um, and then I talked about how Sam and Cassie the people getting married how like I met them and how long I've known them and that I've kept in touch with Sam and our 6 friends or 5 friends from Nashville since high school because of group chats. And like we all stayed together talked to each other every day in a group chat and like have kept that communication and talked about how um marriage in anthropologically is an evolutionary adaptation because you're uniting 1. 11:48.56 alifeinruins Group of the species with another group of the species to secure resources. So Sam's family or sam now has the resources of Cassie's dad who is wealthy as hell in Southern California and you're solidifying those bonds to ensure your evolutionary success. Ah, and even like if you think about it back in the day like in medieval times they did it to secure land or land tenure or like you know the ah the the habsburgs and all the trading of ah Kings and queens in Europe and weather. They're all inbred getting attracted i. Was going on about gang initiation and driver's licenses and talked about game of thrones and then talked about cell phones and keeping together and stuff but I talked about how Sam was a always a rock for me when I was like freaking out or I'd call him stuff like that got to Sam and then I talked about Cassie a bit can't. This was in 2019 I can't remember all of it. But at the end I brought it back to Sam and Cassie being like a solid example of human culture because I've known them forever their sociality in my life and like being rocks for me has kept me evolutionarily fit and alive. Um, and that the joining of their 2 unions was like I can't fucking remember but like it was just like that it was like destined to happen because they were they were good together and like I was like all right raise your glass to like the best humans I know blah blah blah. 13:18.59 alifeinruins Can't remember the whole the lecture or the whole speech I guess you're getting the gist maybe but the end I got like a wild round of applause and like her whole family that didn't know me at the end came up and talked to me and they were like whoa. You're the anthropologist cousin and I was like yeah and like the people that he worked with and then this one guy. Was like I give speeches all the time for work and he's a big insurance company guy and he was like I was lost in the middle of your speech. But you brought it back at the end back to marriage and I loved it and like he's like you lost me. But then when I came back with the thing at the end. I should probably read the speech later for you to understand it but he congratulated me on that and again I made that speech like 30 minutes before the wedding. Um, and I don't remember where I was going with that I'm not just trying to say I wrote I wrote a good speech I promise. But it was using the skills that I have from speaking like public speaking and archaeology and giving powerpoints kind of just gave bullet points in a on a note on the notes app on Iphone and just read a speech and made it based on anthropological things that I knew and then talked about you know Sam and Cassie my friends and stuff. Which is what you're supposed to do with the wedding speech. But it felt good and like I'm technically like a performer in a way when I do my videos or like standup stuff so like it just you always take those opportunities to practice and like use your skill and I really liked that I remember it being like a good feeling. 14:54.96 alifeinruins When everybody was like holy shit because it's like Sam and Cassie's wedding but these people were coming up and being like that was a fucking good speech dude and her poor sister gave like a speech where she was shaking and like Cassie has been my rock for 25 years then like it lasted 30 like painful seconds and then like I went up and just like shipheld it and it it was fun. Ah, but it's good knowing that I have those tools and like when I gave the dog lecture ah for a wyoming talk. Remember Spencer Pelton's wife Hallie Pelton came up to me at the end and just like shook her head and she was like you have a talent and I was like thanks and it's a good feeling to have that so I don't it sounds like I'm trying to gloat I'm I'm not There's a there's a point to me saying this. It's just. The methods in which I speak and publicly teach and stuff whatever it is like my therapist. Maybe they're right that I just speak so fast and give so many things that you can't keep up and you have to stay paying attention or you're going to get lost. Or it's the humor or it's just the genuine like I specifically remember in that lecture I just made something up on the fly like I ad lib or like improv when I'm talking about something to explain it better. Um, and like 1 that I improv was like humans like are literal humans are insane. We. 16:25.76 alifeinruins Like Bipedal primates that come barreling out of the woods holding a simple machine with an that ladle that they have made out of wood and that they have taken a bit into a deer spine to get the the sinew wrap the sinew around the end with bird feathers. They plucked realizing that bird Feathers fly. They added those to the end of the atlet all to make it fly better and they did that and they also can take a stick and spin it really hard and make a fire at it it like make something combust and at the same like they come barreling out of the woods and they took a rock and smashed it down from this big down to a point and then also at the same time. Are wearing the flaed skins of another animal and everybody just started laughing and then like as they were laughing that came into my mind that like and that's probably why Aliens haven't come to visit us and that fucking killed it was just something that came to me in the moment because like I can't describe it. It's just like the audio I kind of block out and like I forget the audience is there but the laughter it's like fuel I can't describe it I Guess it's how a standup comedia would talk about it but it just came on the fly and stuff like that is what makes me lecture good and I can't really. If you I mean if you agree that I like you're good if you don't That's fine I Ah speak good I Um, what might be unique to me like I have nervous ticks I'm like a neurotic person and I talk really fast. That's where that comes from um and that's probably why I'm able to do it that way and I'm not saying like. 17:59.77 alifeinruins You have to have that to be a good speaker but there is some quality about you that you are hyper stoked about whether it's dogs or archeology or spreadsheets or minerals or rock tumbling or maybe you're a big fan of how City planners add playgrounds to towns. Like get hyped on that and something that you're hyped on make a powerpoint about that if you want to practice and everything you want like dump on if you're into Ugi or you're into fucking magic or you're into chess like write a powerpoint about that. But the history of chess why you like chess and like what chess does for you and the logic of it and like you know the the Russian and American um Queens gambit like rush like with the um Soviet Yeah, you know I mean like talk about that and get stoked about it and that's how you practice man and or lady. And you just do it with something you talk about and or something that you like sorry back up do make a powerpoint about something you like and give it to yourself. Tell it I do it I rehearse it in the shower I come up with a lot of lines in the shower or things that I should talk about and do that. Because when you have to give a talk on a paper that you wrote that you probably didn't really care about the paper. You just had to do it. You're gonna have to get up there and give a talk about that Paper. You got to seem somewhat intrigued about it and you got to somewhat you know make it interesting So You're not just sleeping listening to it or people aren't so I do that. 19:32.48 alifeinruins And I add my like neuroticism and like the jokes to my stuff and then like the flashy animations and video on top and that stuff you can do like I take that from I just naturally kind of was doing that but other Youtube videos that I watch like I noticed a lot of youtubers will do this or that I'm like oh I should probably add that too. And because it seems to be what is I guess hashtag trending in like the current zeitgeist of what Youtube videos should look like you know, um and just keep up with those I guess trends or fads and I try not to conform to all those but I do add some stuff things like that you can all add. To what you do and I think I started this whole podcast and second one talking about the dog lecture all of that like all my neuroticism all of the knowledge I have about dogs that I've talked about over and over and over again on this show on other podcasts on my Instagram. And giving that talk so many times over zoome during covid I just know it like I don't have to look at the powerpoint I do for some things but I just lost track what I was saying. Yeah I've given that so many times that I can just kind of like I said black out or zone out and just give it and therefore every time I I do it I can add ad lib more jokes I know what joke killed I know what joke didn't kill. 21:03.45 alifeinruins And specifically I learned this because of stand-up comedy and I experienced this and then then learned it from stand-up comedy the room. The room is important if when it was a tight room at the Wyoming talk in a classroom. The room was tight and intimate and it was everyone kind of knew each other. And they were able to laugh a lot more so I could go more wild and curse more with the cursing also by the way is like it immediately endears me to somebody because I'm like okay this guy gets it like if a professor just drops an f bomb I'm like cool. He's not like a pretentious asshole. So I always do that use it wisely. There's times when you should tells me, you shouldn't. In that intimate room it killed but in a big lecture hall where everyone's kind of spaced out staatically stochastically in the audience and they can't I can't hear them laugh as much or see them. It was harder for me to do the jokes. Um, so I added a laugh track on top of them. Because you couldn't hear them the mic was on my shirt like the lav mic so you couldn't really hear the laps anyway I only heard like the front row with like some giggles but I remember people laughing at something so I added a laugh track to it like you would in a movie or a sitcom and I just looked up sitcom laugh tracks and put them on there. Um, and that makes it engaging because then people watching the video on Youtube like no okay, it's it's cool to laugh at that or like you know that I fucked up and said something and said something on the fly so practice that stuff or sorry the intimate room thing comedians will. 22:34.92 alifeinruins Always tell you like a tiny club in like you know Pennsylvania or the comedy seller in New York it's an intimate room. You're familiar with it. You know everyone there is there paying a lot of money to see you talk and give a show but when you're just starting like when I was doing standup. Like you're in a room that's mostly full of comedians and maybe their girlfriend if they bring them or their boyfriend and they're all like they hear you tell the same jokes every week and if you get it's all a random order sometimes and the guy at the mcc will put people. He knows are good that are recurring people. Intersperse throughout it so he keeps the show good. But if I'm picked like early like I'm fifth to go up. There's like thirty forty people in the room and every joke will kill because they're not I joke I have more ability to make that joke work and see how many people are laughing and what they laugh at based on how I said it. Um, and like the demographic that laughs at all that stuff goes through my head when I'm talking and you can see that but when it's the end of the night and I went up second to last and it's just the mcc and 3 people and I was telling a joke about gay horn. It was very awkward. So I just left and like ah the joke was. About like I ran out of probably shouldn't say this on the podcast like but I it just junk I ran a straight points. So I studied gay horn and then you know gave it the college try wasn't for me and like it was. That's not really that funny saying it now in a room when it was a lot of people the way I said it and look the way it was funny was funny. 24:07.19 alifeinruins But in in the room of saw people know when there's no one so when I give a lecture I know what works and what doesn't and I can keep that slide and add what works and has what doesn't um I don't know if you want to edit that out Chris I think it's probably fine like gay point exists diversity anyway, I'm at 24 minutes sorry um I went on a whole tangent about lighting and I think I talked about Tarantino and then really stoked about Oppenheimer and sound and plant of earth but please when you watch something now a Youtube video or you watch. Um, that's a good point too watch. Someone a youtuber you like and then go back and watch their earliest videos and see over time how they progressed into like what their visual and their sound effects and stuff are now because you can see like what is different and what makes it better. Um, and when you watch a movie like playing other earth or you're watching something on Netflix um. 25:04.83 alifeinruins Pay attention to the lighting and like the dommer um series. It was all dark and yellow and it's to make you uncomfortable um zombie movies and like war movie saving private Ryan for sure in the beginning of it in the big invasion of normandy scene. The camera rate the frame rate is really slow. So that it's really shaky and like hectic because that's what spillberg was trying to get you to feel as well and a lot of action sequences and stuff things are the speed. The frame rate slowed down so that you can you know it's tense and like you'rekate like in a fight scene but then in a scene that's like supposed to be a. You know someone recalling a memory It's always in slow motion. It just helps you with the vibe I'm still going on a rent watch things pay attention to how it does or how things that you notice in it like what's going on in the background what you like about it and the things that I've said and if you want to do this like make video or make media or you just want to be better at lecturing. Hope this helped um and just pay attention to people you appreciate in the in these spaces and make it unique to you would be my advice and ah my advice to myself right now is I am 26 minutes into the segment. So I'm going to end it. Thank you guys, please rate and review the podcast if you can. Um, if you want more solo episodes like this let us know I think that's kind of how we're gonna start doing it. Um here and there and yet rate and review. Thank you for listening. Um I don't know what else I'm supposed to say Connor's shitty joke. Hey Conor you have a shitty joke. No okay, cool all right. We're out.