Direction category: 829 books
Sailor Moon Reflections
The inside story of the original recordings of the English version of Sailor Moon
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The work of a voice artist isn't necessarily what it may seem to the viewer or listener. It is a craft that is learned through intense study and practice. The cast of Sailor Moon were paragons of this art form and reveal their techniques in accomplishing their roles in this book. This is the inside story...
Shoot Like Tarantino
The Visual Secrets of Dangerous Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Want your film to sizzle with danger? Then learn from the master of tension and action. Using Tar-antino’s secret tricks for creating conflict, keeping dialogue taut, and letting all hell break loose, you will enhance your own shooting style. Whatever your budget, get the action pumping with the...
MAP
The Hollywood/L.A. Career Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The guiding light of books. Fun reading A since of clarity for a newcomer to Los Angeles and the Entertainment Industry of Hollywood. Key points of the steps you want to take, Night Life hot spots, and raising funds for your projects makes "MAP" The Hollywood/L.A. Career Guide a must have book.
by Ben McCann
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers. It provides new contextual and analytical readings of his films that identify his key themes and techniques, trace patterns of continuity and change, and explore...
Todd Haynes
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
A pioneer of the New Queer Cinema, Todd Haynes (b. 1961) is a leading American independent filmmaker. Whether working with talking dolls in a homemade short (Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story) or with Oscar-winning performers in an HBO miniseries (Mildred Pierce), Haynes has garnered numerous awards...
Digital Compositing for Film and Video
Production Workflows and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Written by senior compositor, technical director and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-to-read and highly-informative guide suitable for both working and aspiring visual effects artists.
This expanded and updated edition of Digital...
Production Management for TV and Film
The professional's guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
"What Linda Stradling doesn't know about production management isn't worth knowing" The Documentary Filmmakers Group
Production Managers are responsible for all the organisational aspects of a TV or film production such as scheduling and budgeting and assisting producers to interpret...
Extreme DV at Used-Car Prices
How to Write, Direct, Shoot, Edit, and Produce a Digital Video Feature for LessT han $3,000
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
For years, award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt has been teaching aspiring directors how to make “no-budget” films, both in workshops and in his classic guide Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices. Now Schmidt shows them how it is easier—and cheaper—than ever to make an innovative,...
Directing Theater 101
10 Steps to Successful Productions for New Directors and Regional Theater Companies
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
What are the practical and creative elements for becoming a director?
How do you get started?
What is the best way for actors, designers, and crew to work with directors?
This guide provides regional theater companies and new directors with the knowledge and tools they need...
Film Directing Fundamentals
See Your Film Before Shooting
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on-screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, Nicholas Proferes provides clear-cut ways to translate a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint, the reader...
Master Shots Vol 2
Shooting Great Dialogue Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This is the ChineseSimplified version. Dialogue scenes are the most important moments in your film, but most directors get them wrong. If you block your scenes well, you do more than capture the basic scene; you echo the meaning, emotion, and drama of every moment. That is never more important than...
Directing for Film and Television
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
Legendary stories portray directors as eccentric, moody savants who possess a genius for the film medium that mere mortals could never grasp. Throughout cinematic history, gushing accounts have cast the likes of DeMille, Hitchcock, Fellini, and Spielberg as sorcerers, rather than tradesmen. Now confounding...
by Dermot Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Step inside the world of the talented art departments who, led by Academy Award®-winning production designer Stuart Craig, were responsible for the creation of the unforgettable characters, locations and beasts from the eagerly anticipated new adventure in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World.
The...
by White Christine A
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Directors & Designers offers the reader insights into the working relationships of people in these significant and creative roles. It charts an understanding of the way in which these roles have developed over the last century with specific chapters on both the personalities and on the works created...