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Film directing shot by shot : visualizing from concept to screen / by Steven D. Katz.
LIBRA PN1995.9.P7 K38 1991
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, Steven D. (Steven Douglas), 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction.
- Video recordings--Production and direction.
- Video recordings--Production and direction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Video recordings.
- Local Subjects:
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Video recordings--Production and direction--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- regular print
- Other Title:
- Shot by shot
- Place of Publication:
- Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions in conjunction with Focal Press, ©1991.
- Summary:
- "A complete catalogue of visual techniques and their stylistic implications for both the filmmaker and videomaker - 'a text book' which enables working filmmakers (as well as screenwriters and others) to expand their stylistic knowledge ... Includes over 750 illustrations, photographs and original storyboards from Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, Hitchcock's The Birds, and Welles' Citizen Kane."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Visualization: the process. Visualization
- Production design
- Storyboards
- Visualization: tools and techniques
- The production cycle
- Part II. Elements of the continuity style. Composing shots: spatial connections
- Editing: temporal connections
- Part III. The workshop. The basics applied
- Staging dialogue sequences
- Dialogue staging with three subjects
- Four or more player dialogue stagings
- Mobile staging
- Depth of the frame
- Camera angles
- Open and closed framings
- Point of view
- Part IV. The moving camera. The pan
- The crane shot
- The tracking shot
- Tracking shot choreography
- Transitions
- Format
- Parting shots
- Appendix: camera angle projection
- Glossary
- Recommended reading.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-366).
- ISBN:
- 9780941188104
- 0941188108
- OCLC:
- 39761883
- Publisher Number:
- 99969594300
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