The Film Director Prepares: A Practical Guide to Directing for Film and TV [Paperback]

Myrl A. Schreibman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 22, 2006

• Insider author gives no-nonsense advice

• Required reading for film students, educators, anyone interested in film



From script analysis to post production, here is the all-inclusive guide to directing for film and television. Written by noted director-producer Myrl Schreibman, The Film Director Prepares offers practical insights on filmmaking, using real-life examples directors won’t learn in school. With topics including working with actors, using the camera to tell a story, setting mood, staging, maintaining performance levels, covering shots, and directing for different mediums, The Film Director Prepares will leave new directors truly prepared for their careers.

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About the Author

Myrl A. Schreibman is an award-winning producer-director and an adjunct professor at the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital media. Movie Maker magazine named his Indie Producer’s Handbook: Creative Producing from A to Z the number-one book on producing. He lives in Los Angeles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Lone Eagle (November 22, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580650678
• ISBN-13: 978-1580650670
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading for Actors, January 4, 2007

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Dinah L. Mills "aka Dinah Lenney" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Film Director Prepares: A Practical Guide to Directing for Film and TV (Paperback)

"Read, read, read," says Schreibman and he might as well be talking about THE FILM DIRECTOR PREPARES, as essential to the actor as to anybody and everybody else who ever worked on a set. This is the book -- fascinating and entirely accessible -- to afford each of us an extra dollop of confidence in approaching a role, a rehearsal, a conversation about how to play a scene; to give actors an understanding of why directors make the choices they do and how we can best serve the vision of the whole. Wish I'd had this book years and years ago and I'm so glad to have it now!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn the Rules to Break the Rules, March 19, 2007

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Warren (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Film Director Prepares: A Practical Guide to Directing for Film and TV (Paperback)

Practical and easy-to-grasp, this book breaks down directing to its most essential elements: the philosophy and the process. The book is a great starting guide for the newbie. Use it to learn just the fundamental principles of filmmaking, and then go out and discover your own principles.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING BOOK THAT IS INTERACTIVE, January 31, 2007

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Michael (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Film Director Prepares: A Practical Guide to Directing for Film and TV (Paperback)

This book is an entirely interactive book as it contains a CD-rom that has a 3d storyboarding software that makes it absolutely remarkable in being able to manipulate the images in the book to experiment with concepts and precepts that the author is knowingly speaking about. The Directors Guild of America calls this book the definitive book for directors and encourages not only those who are learning to direct but those who already direct to hacve this book in their library. It is told from a very easy and understandable perspective and full of practical stuff about telling stories, saving production time during production, working with talent, directing various forms of television and most of all what it means to do coverage to tell stories. This is one book that you must have!