Polygon’s latest series, The Masterpieces of Streaming, looks at the new batch of classics that have emerged from an evolving era of entertainment. Like every medium before it, “video essays” on ...

Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...

Over the last decade, long-form video essays have grown in popularity — arguably entering into a boom all their own. Viewers can easily look up a video essay on just about any topic they’d like to, ...

How can cinema be poetic? For video essayist Tony Zhou, it’s when he can “ignore the plot and just appreciate the picture and sound doing something unique.” That’s how he opens his latest episode of ...

As you move through the application process, one of the most important aspects is telling your personal and professional story as fully and authentically as possible. Each part of the application ...

As any seasoned movie lover will tell you, proper framing counts for an awful lot. For good or for ill, the exact placing of a shot within the boundary of a frame can dramatically alter the thematic ...