Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions) [Paperback]

Film Directing Shot by Shot offers a good introduction to the rudiments of film production. Steven D. Katz walks his readers through the various stages of moviemaking, advising them at every turn to visualise the films they wish to produce. Katz believes that one of the chief tasks of filmmaking is to negotiate between our three-dimensional reality and the two-dimensionality of the screen. He covers the number of technical options filmmakers can use to create a satisfying flow of shots, a continuity that will make sense to viewers and aptly tell the film's story. Katz provides in-depth coverage of production design, storyboarding, spatial connections, editing, scene staging, depth of frame, camera angles, point of view and the various types of stable compositions and moving camera shots. --Jake Bond

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.

Steve Katz's Delivers First Digital Feature Film
On May 14th, Steve Katz' ground breaking short film, "Protest" will kick off the first all-digital feature film in history to be released to theaters without cellulouid, and by satellite.

Protest is a CFI short subject presented as a dream-like mediation on the plight of the elephant population.

Steve Katz' books, Film Directing: Shot by Shot and Film Directing: Cinematic Motion continue to be international best sellers.

These books are used by over 200 film schools worldwide.