Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics - Softcover

Rabiger, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240800117 ISBN 13: 9780240800110

Publisher: Focal Press, 1989

Synopsis

A practical guide to directing including pre-production, production and post-production and a discussion of aesthetics and authorship. It also includes a number of projects and execises for readers to use for practicing techniques.

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Review

'This is the only comprehensive book on filmmaking that I recommend to my students', Jeremy Kagan, USC Graduate Film School; Artistic Director Sundance Institute
'It is an inspirational and comprehensive book that also goes into the art
of story construction for the screen ...'

From the Author

Important new content
This edition has an important new part titled "Artistic Identity." It includes three chapters--"The Job of the Director", "Identifying Your Themes as a Director," and "Developing Your Story Ideas." I wrote them because I realized from my travels that though film techniques are being taught everywhere, almost no film school and no text is explaining the focusing self-awareness that alone produces coherent authorship. Instead, filmmakers get consumed by the medium's technology. This leaves aside the vital questions about how and why one wants to speak to an audience through the medium, and what one's life has equipped one to contribute. This is a much needed innovation as it prepares the ground for integrated filmmaking (or videomaking, of course), one with an individual point of view--something one seldom finds in much screen work generally. Hope you find it useful. --Michael Rabiger.

Edition details

• Publisher: Focal Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0240800117
• ISBN 13: 9780240800110
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424