Directing film techniques and aesthetics
Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive manual that has inspired tens of thousands of readers worldwide to realize their artistic vision and produce well-constructed films. Filled with practical advice on every stage of production, this is the book you will return to throughout...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Focal Press
c2008.
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| Edition: | 4th ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009634709006719 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics, Fourth Edition; Contents; Introduction; PART 1: ARTISTIC IDENTITY AND DRAMA; Chapter 1 The World of the Film Director; Cinema Art and You; The Director; The Medium; Learning to Direct; Developing a Career in Independent Filmmaking; Chapter 2 Identifying Your Themes; Stories You Care Deeply About; Art, Identity, and Competitiveness; Identity, Belief, and Vision; Find Your Life Issues; Projects; The Artistic Process; How Writers Work; Chapter 3 Dramaturgy Essentials; Duality and Conflict; Identifying a Character's Conflict; Representation
- Temperament Affects VisionCharacter-Driven and Plot-Driven Drama; Drama and Propaganda Are Different; More Types of Drama; The Dramatic Unit and the Scene; Building a World Around the Concerned Observer; PART 2: SCREENCRAFT; Chapter 4 A Director's Screen Grammar; Film Language; Film Language and Human Perception; Shots and Subjects in Juxtaposition; Point of View; The Concerned Observer and the Storyteller; Scene Axis Essentials; Authorship Essentials: Text and Subtext; Constructing Meaning; Screen Direction and Angles; Abstraction; Subjectivity and Objectivity
- Duration, Rhythm, and ConcentrationSequence and Memory; Transitions and Transitional Devices; Screen Language in Summary; Researching to Be a Storyteller; Chapter 5 Seeing with a Moviemaker's Eye; Projects; Composition, Form, and Function; Point of View and Blocking; Character and Camera Blocking; Fiction and Documentary; Projects; Chapter 6 Shooting Projects; How Best to Explore the Basics; Outcomes Assessment; On Developing Your Abilities; Projects; PART 3: THE STORY AND ITS DEVELOPMENT; Chapter 7 Recognizing the Superior Screenplay; Choosing What Is Right for You
- Why Reading Scripts Is HardSigns of a Good Screenplay; Standard Script Forms; First Assessment; Chapter 8 Analyzing a Screenplay; Plot; Characters: Conflict, Growth, and Change; Dialogue and Verbal Action; Checking the Foundations; Chapter 9 Director's Development Strategies; Story Logic; Credibility, Mood, and Enlisting the Audience; Planning Action; The Displacement Principle; Inviting a Critical Response; Incorporating Criticism; Expanding and Collapsing the Screenplay; Rewrite, Rewrite, Rewrite!; Fund-raising and Writing the Prospectus; The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Producer
- Chapter 10 Alternative Story SourcesAdapting from Literature; Copyright Clearance; Actor-Centered Films and Their Scripts; Ideation: Three Nontraditional Ways to Start a Project; Chapter 11 Setting Creative Limitations; The Dogme Group; Make Your Own Limitations; PART 4: AESTHETICS AND AUTHORSHIP; Chapter 12 Point of View; Point of View in Literature; Point of View in Film; Pov Is Like Russian Dolls; Planning a Point of View; Chapter 13 Subtext, Genre, and Archetypes; Subtext: Making the Visible Significant; Genre Options; Question Checklist; Chapter 14 Time, Structure, and Plot; Time; Plot
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