This is practical guide addresses problems encountered when staging and blocking scenes. Includes discussions of scheduling, staging without dialogue, choreography, sequence shots, and more.
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A sequel to Steven Katz's Film Directing Shot by Shot, this book tackles specific problems of staging cinematic scenes. How should directors shoot scenes in confined spaces, such as small rooms or the interior of a car, in large open spaces, or with a number of characters involved in busy dialogue? As in his previous book, Katz addresses these problems by storyboarding hypothetical scenes for the camera, laying out a drawing of each shot in the sequence for readers to study. As a bonus, the book is peppered with interviews about creating shot sequences that Katz conducted with a number of professional filmmakers, including Allen Daviau, Ralph Singleton, and John Sayles.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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A practical how-to guide with plenty of examples,
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This review is from: Film Directing Cinematic Motion: A Workshop for Staging Scenes (Paperback)
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning to compose better pictures of any kind. This unusual book takes a "through-the-lens" approach to presenting ideas about how to compose pictures. This is a refreshing break from abstract "art-babble" discussions that offer the reader little practical guidance about where to point the camera. In addition to video and film, still photographers will find this book especially interesting.
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Clears Away the Cobwebs!,
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This review is from: Film Directing Cinematic Motion: A Workshop for Staging Scenes (Paperback)
This fine, detailed & user-friendly book opens up a director's view of the world of cinematic movement & how it relates to good story-telling through film. Staging scenes, blocking, camera movement, choreography of scene movent, reverse shots, camera angles, tracking, exterior & interior shooting, staging multiple characters in a scene...it's all here, with drawings that clearly illustrate the informative text.
16 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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A good book for the novice director,
This review is from: Film Directing Cinematic Motion: A Workshop for Staging Scenes (Paperback)
Giving you the fundamentals of the art, this book shows you some of the tecniques involved when capturing a certain shot and helps you to understand the procedures involved. Its a great book for beginners.
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