film analysis on film (or video)

interested in this too.

frame by frame breakdowns of sports plays, gifs, are beyond common. feel like it'd be so easy to do with movies, too. but so people have the vocabulary, have gone to film school or taken high level film courses, talking about shot/reverse shots etc.

i feel like most traditional film academia is hampered by the format of university publishing houses - these essays that look like essays from other disciplines, long blocks of texts, but that rely heavily on close viewings of scenes, such that to really get anything out of them, you need to track down the movie yourself and find the scene yourself and follow it in lockstep with the text frame by frame. obviously, these essays would be infinitely better if done on a website with embedded images and gifs.

who wants to start a tumblr with me??

any books on the basics of cinematography, etc. would be welcomed as well

to some extent this kind of formal analysis has moved from the film studies classroom to the DVD commentary track