Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions): Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions) |
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Steven D. Katz
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Pages: 325 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0941188108
Pub: Michael Wiese Productions
Pub date: 1991-07-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2570
Editorial Review:
Film Directing Shot by Shot offers a good introduction to the rudiments of film production. Steven D. Katz walks his readers through the various stages of moviemaking, advising them at every turn to visualise the films they wish to produce. Katz believes that one of the chief tasks of filmmaking is to negotiate between our three-dimensional reality and the two-dimensionality of the screen. He covers the number of technical options filmmakers can use to create a satisfying flow of shots, a continuity that will make sense to viewers and aptly tell the film's story. Katz provides in-depth coverage of production design, storyboarding, spatial connections, editing, scene staging, depth of frame, camera angles, point of view and the various types of stable compositions and moving camera shots. --Jake Bond
Reader Reviews:
Buy this book (2/2 people found this helpful)
This book is one of many I have read on film making. I am a self taught independent professional film maker and I wish I had bought this book first. It's title says it all. It is very well written, well researched, worth the money. Get 'Grammer of the Shot' while you are at it.
Comprehensive guide (1/1 people found this helpful)
This book is an essential guide for those beginning work in the film industry, particularly those who want to understand the basics of directing, editing, camera work and storyboarding.
Solid training in film visualisation (17/18 people found this helpful)
If you are a casual reader looking for a glossy book with colour photo'sof film sets, lighting, SFX and cameras etc, this is not for you. Ifhowever, you are a serious film student (or practitioner) and you want adetailed insight into how a motion picture idea is conceived and developedinto a workable project, then you need to make this part of your readinglist.
This is a thorough overview of the visualisation processes needed to takeyour project from an idea to a solid plan for production. As well ashelping you to develop your visualisation skills, it also has a goodtechnical overview of important techniques such as establishing lines,continuity, pacing etc.
There are examples (with original storyboard art) taken from someprominent films and directors to help you understand the reasoning behindthe way certain scenes were designed and executed.
The intangible or emotive aspects of creating a film are well covered...i.e. using camera angles and different focal lengths and POV's for helpingto describe the relationships between characters and what they are feelingor experiencing.
This is not a technical manual for lighting or how to use certain types ofcameras etc. These subjects are best covered in detail in seperatepublications.
A Brilliant Book (8/9 people found this helpful)
This catologue of filmmaking terms has become one of the best books I own. When I recieved it as a gift at Christmas, I thought I'd read a chapter before I went to bed but ended up reading for hours into the morning. An excellent guide for arranging camera angles, storyboards and shot sequences alike.
Brilliant.
Very useful but to what extent (5/15 people found this helpful)
This book is very useful in bringing out the visualisation in you. I think it's really only for prospective film directors, but it alone isn't going to get you anywhere.
This book does touch on every topic in the filmmaking subject, except the business side to it. But for all it does, it is an excellent guide.
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