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Cinematic Motion has helped directors create a personal camera style and master complex staging challenges for over a decade. Since digital technology has revolutionized filmmaking, this second edition adds chapters on digital visualization and script breakdown.
The book uses extensive illustrations to explain how to create extended sequence shots, elaborate moving camera choreography, and tracking shots with multiple story points. Interviews with top Hollywood craftspeople demonstrate how to bring sophisticated ideas to life. Readers will be able to follow links to the MWP website and interact with the author's original storyboards, built in 3D with the latest storyboard software.
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By Steven Katz
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a young filmmaker, I currently own quite a few books on the subject but none more inspiring than this. I loved his previous book 'Shot by Shot' but this is the best one.
It has taught me so much, allowing me to develop my own directing style and has prevented me from making those fateful mistakes relating to the 'line of action' and when shooting more that two people in a dialogue scene.
If you want to join the field or even if you are already part of it, I suggest you buy this book because it is brilliant.
It has taught me so much, allowing me to develop my own directing style and has prevented me from making those fateful mistakes relating to the 'line of action' and when shooting more that two people in a dialogue scene.
If you want to join the field or even if you are already part of it, I suggest you buy this book because it is brilliant.
Thank you so much!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Decided to read this because I'd been interested in scripts for some time. I hadn't read the earlier book "Shot by Shot" but tried this anyway. I found it very interesting and for someone with no knowledge of film directing or how to tell a story with a film camera this was very enlightening.
The author shows all the relevant moves and techniques required, using a camera, to convert a script into an actual film. And it could not be explained in a simpler way.
There are ways of telling your story, or idea, on film that is very easy to understand and most of the time when you go to the movies you never really think about how it is done.
Using ideas such as different points of view, shot sizes, where to edit and where to pan or continue a camera move, it isn't long before you grasp the basics of film directing that all filmmakers use. S Katz teaches how to develop a storyline on film, in particular how character viewpoint is developed and how key scenes and expressions are emphasized. It is all, surprisingly, very simple but once again, for anyone with no previous knowledge of film directing - ie. most of us - it is quite fascinating.
The content of the book is roughly like this :
PART 1 : Basic camera moves & techniques explained.
PART 2 : Storyboard Workshops & Camera Diagrams.
This is the bulk of the book, where the author shows how a variety of scenes and locations are filmed, progressing to more and more complex scenarios. Commentary and advice is given at the end of every workshop.
PART 3 : A chapter on script analysis and a chapter on Digital Film design, the latter showing all the relevant digital equipment used today eg. Pcs & film editing software and why this has made the film making process so much easier.
The book also contains 4 or 5 interviews with professionals from the film making industry eg a cinematographer, writer/director and special effects person who have all worked with the big names in film like Spielberg, Coppolla & James Cameron. These interviews like the rest of the book are very interesting and informative.
If you want to learn about film directing, and aren't at a film school, I think this book would be great. It's inspired me to read the earlier 'Shot by Shot' by the same author, which appears to have quite a bit more content but which I think will be just as enjoyable.
The author shows all the relevant moves and techniques required, using a camera, to convert a script into an actual film. And it could not be explained in a simpler way.
There are ways of telling your story, or idea, on film that is very easy to understand and most of the time when you go to the movies you never really think about how it is done.
Using ideas such as different points of view, shot sizes, where to edit and where to pan or continue a camera move, it isn't long before you grasp the basics of film directing that all filmmakers use. S Katz teaches how to develop a storyline on film, in particular how character viewpoint is developed and how key scenes and expressions are emphasized. It is all, surprisingly, very simple but once again, for anyone with no previous knowledge of film directing - ie. most of us - it is quite fascinating.
The content of the book is roughly like this :
PART 1 : Basic camera moves & techniques explained.
PART 2 : Storyboard Workshops & Camera Diagrams.
This is the bulk of the book, where the author shows how a variety of scenes and locations are filmed, progressing to more and more complex scenarios. Commentary and advice is given at the end of every workshop.
PART 3 : A chapter on script analysis and a chapter on Digital Film design, the latter showing all the relevant digital equipment used today eg. Pcs & film editing software and why this has made the film making process so much easier.
The book also contains 4 or 5 interviews with professionals from the film making industry eg a cinematographer, writer/director and special effects person who have all worked with the big names in film like Spielberg, Coppolla & James Cameron. These interviews like the rest of the book are very interesting and informative.
If you want to learn about film directing, and aren't at a film school, I think this book would be great. It's inspired me to read the earlier 'Shot by Shot' by the same author, which appears to have quite a bit more content but which I think will be just as enjoyable.
Format:Paperback
Very useful point of view: the author gives a quick look at the different competences of the film industry by using professionals to explain them. Very nice starting point
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