This international best-seller is filled with visual techniques for filmmakers and screenwriters who want to expand their stylistic knowledge.A complete catalogue of motion picture techniques for filmmakers. It concentrates on the 'storytelling' school of filmmaking, utilizing the work of the great stylists who established the versatile vocabulary of technique that has dominated the movies since 1915. This graphic approach includes comparisons of style by interpreting a 'model script', created for the book, in storyboard form.International best-seller filled with visual techniques for filmmakers and screenwriters."Now that you've got a couple of shorts under your belt, why not get a little more analytic? Steven Katz's book gives a great breakdown of the fundamentals of film directing. It's not something you might want to start off by reading, but once you are ready to have your films take that next step this should be number one on your to do list. Katz breaks down film language for you so that you can learn how to speak it in your own way." - www.austinfilmfestival.com
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| Introduction | |
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| Visualization: The Process | |
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| Visualization | |
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| Production Design | |
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| Storyboards | |
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| Visualization: Tools and Techniques | |
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| The Production Cycle | |
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| Elements of The Continuity Style | |
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| Composing Shots: Spatial Connections | |
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| Editing: Temporal Connections | |
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| The Workshop | |
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| The Basics Applied | |
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| Staging Dialogue Sequences | |
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| Dialogue Staging with Three Subjects | |
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| Four or More Player Dialogue Stagings | |
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| Mobile Staging | |
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| Depth of the Frame | |
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| Camera Angles | |
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| Open and Closed Framings | |
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| Point of View | |
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| The Moving Camera | |
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| The Pan | |
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| The Crane Shot | |
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| The Tracking Shot | |
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| Tracking Shot Choreography | |
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| Transitions | |
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| Format | |
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| Parting Shots | |
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| Camera Angle Projection | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
Steven T. Katzis professor of Jewish studies and director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. Among his publications arePost-Holocaust Dialogues: Historicism, the Holocaust and Zionism. He was awarded the Lucas Prize by the University of Tübingen in 1999.
