Film directing fundamentals see your film before shooting

"Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on the screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, this book provides clear-cut ways for translating a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint, the r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Proferes, Nicholas T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Focal Press 2005
Edition:2nd ed
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 271) and index
  • Introduction to film language and grammar
  • Introduction to the dramatic elements embedded in the screenplay
  • Organizing action in a dramatic scene
  • Staging
  • The camera
  • Camera in Notorious patio scene
  • Detective work on scripts
  • Staging and camera for a piece of apple pie
  • Marking shooting scripts with camera setups
  • Working with actors
  • Managerial responsibilities of the director
  • Postproduction
  • Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious
  • Peter Weir's The Truman show
  • Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
  • Styles and dramatic structure
  • What next?