If you’re a filmmaker and look up to Martin Scorsese, you’ll love this video. StudioBinder brings you five key elements of Scorsese’s directing in a fun video showing excerpts from his movies and various interviews. It’s a great source of inspiration and an opportunity to learn some tricks from a directing master.

Scorsese uses different cinematic techniques, and he always uses them with a purpose. He wants to make an emotional and psychological point and to tell a story to his viewers. In the video above, there are five key techniques you’ll see in Scorsese’s movies, explained and shown through examples:

These are only some techniques the great Martin Scorsese uses to make his movies so powerful. There is, of course, so much more to making a good movie, but I believe this video is a great place to start. It should serve as an inspiration and a sort of a guideline what to have in mind when making your own movies. And if you’d like to learn even more, make sure to read StudioBinder’s blog post on Scorsese’s film school. [How Martin Scorsese Directs a Movie | The Director’s Chair | StudioBinder]