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"Gustavo Mercado's beautiful book reveals the inner workings of the basic shots that create the cinematic experience. He reveals how visuals communicate to an audience. If you're a novice filmmaker or a seasoned professional, this book will broaden your visual horizons."--Bruce Block, film producer, author of The Visual Story, and visual consultant whose credits include The Holiday, Something's Gotta Give, Stuart Little, and Pretty in Pink "Mercado's book is a great resource for aspiring cinematographers. Using a brilliant selection of images, both classic and contemporary, he eloquently analyzes the conception and execution of a shot. Most important, he manages to explain how to achieve an aesthetically beautiful image, while giving equal weight to the powerful role of cinematography in portraying the characters and telling the story."--Florian Ballhaus, cinematographer whose credits include The Devil Wears Prada, Marley and Me, Flightplan "From understanding shot types and how and why they work to visual rules, technical considerations, and when to break the rules, this packs in practical considerations that will prove key to any filmmaking collection."--Bookwatch "While Mercado's book is perhaps more for people who are serious about filmmaking, it has helped me understand the importance of knowing all the different angles from which one might possibly frame the exact same moment of the story, and how to decide on the one that most perfectly aids the story."--Christianity Today
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This is the only book that combines conceptual and practical instruction on creating polished and eloquent images for film and video with the technical know-how to achieve them. Loaded with hundreds of full-color examples, "The Filmmaker's Eye" is a focused, easy-to-reference guide that shows you how to become a strong visual storyteller through smart, effective choices for your shots. This book has struck a chord worldwide and is being translated into several languages. After a short introduction to basic principles, a variety of shots are deconstructed in the following format: Why It Works - an introduction to a particular type of shot; How It Works - callouts point out exactly how the shot works the way it does - the visual rules and technical aspects in action; Technical Considerations - the equipment and techniques needed to get the shot; and, Breaking the Rules - examples where the 'rules' are brilliant subverted. Make smart visual choices with this quick, focused, and visual guide to cinematic composition. It shows you how to master the rules, then break them. It includes examples and discussions from a range of international films.
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Format:Paperback
This book, by Gustavo Mercado is typical of the better-published titles in Focal Press' library. THE FILMMAKER'S EYE is a thoroughly instructional book on the principles of shooting a scene, or "Mise-En-Scene."
The book can be seen as a two-part discussion. The first being a brief introduction to the fundamentals of photography and explaining the basic concepts of:
Aspect ratios
Frame axis
Focal point & Field-Of-View
Normal, wide and telephone lenses
Aperture
Shallow vs. Deep Depth-of-Field
Shooting Formats: SD & HD
The second, the remaining 90% of the book, is a look at almost 100 different movie scenes where Gustavo examines, for example, an "over-the-shoulder" point of view in the film, PULP FICTION between the two characters played by Ving Rhames and Bruce Willis as well as Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in Mike Nichols' unforgettable THE GRADUATE.
Gustavo breaks down angles such as a "Medium Close-Up" of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's titular character in the film, AMELIE; "Medium Long Shot" of Natalie Portman and Jean Reno in Luc Besson's, THE PROFESSIONAL; "The Subjective Shot" of Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in Jonathan Demme's, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS; and, "The Macro Shot" (to name a few) of Emile Hirsch in Sean Penn's film, INTO THE WILD.
There are also scenes from other films examined such as Pedro Almodovar's, BROKEN EMBRACES and Steven Spielberg's, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
Gustavo Mercado has hit a home run with the book and it is one that anyone interested in film studies and especially those interested in cinematography, editing or directing a feature should strongly consider.
The book can be seen as a two-part discussion. The first being a brief introduction to the fundamentals of photography and explaining the basic concepts of:
Aspect ratios
Frame axis
Focal point & Field-Of-View
Normal, wide and telephone lenses
Aperture
Shallow vs. Deep Depth-of-Field
Shooting Formats: SD & HD
The second, the remaining 90% of the book, is a look at almost 100 different movie scenes where Gustavo examines, for example, an "over-the-shoulder" point of view in the film, PULP FICTION between the two characters played by Ving Rhames and Bruce Willis as well as Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in Mike Nichols' unforgettable THE GRADUATE.
Gustavo breaks down angles such as a "Medium Close-Up" of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's titular character in the film, AMELIE; "Medium Long Shot" of Natalie Portman and Jean Reno in Luc Besson's, THE PROFESSIONAL; "The Subjective Shot" of Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in Jonathan Demme's, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS; and, "The Macro Shot" (to name a few) of Emile Hirsch in Sean Penn's film, INTO THE WILD.
There are also scenes from other films examined such as Pedro Almodovar's, BROKEN EMBRACES and Steven Spielberg's, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
Gustavo Mercado has hit a home run with the book and it is one that anyone interested in film studies and especially those interested in cinematography, editing or directing a feature should strongly consider.
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Nice book with excellent images of example shots. Great for people starting out in film making. I would Highly recommend.
Format:Paperback
I have a mistrust of film books. I'm not sure why but I just do. Simple and informative, this book could be written by anyone! However.....i'm not sure just anyone could have got the everyman to understand it like Gustavo. Everything is written in an interesting and interested way. Almost as though you are enjoying the scenes with him for the first time. everything is in colour (unless the shot was originally in B&W). Which matters. The writing is succinct and lively without flannel or flowery toss. All of the types of shots are broken down into their own individual little chapter. This makes it easy to pop straight to the ones you want in your production and leave the others until you've got a bit of time to digest them at your leisure. A smashing read. Thoroughly informative. From a great writer who is clearly in love with the art of cinema.
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Excellent examples
Excellent book, full of good practical examples. I make films and this has been invaluable, from describing master shots through to the variety of medium shots this brings... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mystery Shopper
Awesome book!
This book is awesome.
It illustrates techniques and other cinematic concepts by using examples of amazing movies, and shows what turns these movies so good. Read more
It illustrates techniques and other cinematic concepts by using examples of amazing movies, and shows what turns these movies so good. Read more
Published 3 months ago by SilvaPereira
A good introduction
Having started playing with digital video this past year, I've realised cinematographers deal with the same issues of composition that still-photographers handle, but at many... Read more
Published 16 months ago by ~PigleT
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