Aesthetics of Film Production
A Hands-On Guide to Authorial Voice
James B. Joyce
- 182 páginas
- English
- ePUB (apto para móviles)
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Aesthetics of Film Production
A Hands-On Guide to Authorial Voice
James B. Joyce
Información del libro
Exploring aesthetic decision-making skills through active, critical interpretation of the screenplay, this book investigates the ways filmmakers translate a screenplay into a powerful film. Guiding the reader through the formal choices a filmmaker makes, this book encompasses all aspects of the filmmaking process, including directing, acting, cinematography, lighting, production design, sound, and editing.
Author Joyce illustrates how to apply aesthetics in a way that encourages creative thinking and stylistic choices, while emphasizing the importance of active decision-making to foreground the screenplay in the filmmaking process. Focusing on how films should be crafted stylistically from beat to beat, the book provides tangible footholds to assist filmmakers with the aesthetic decision-making process, empowering filmmakers to create films to resonate emotionally and intellectually.
Ideal for students of filmmaking and aspiring filmmakers looking to train their gut and hone their creative and aesthetic decision-making in the filmmaking process.
Additional online screenplay samples show how one singular story can be told with different emphasis and narrative perspectives.
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Índice
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Aesthetics
- 2 Respecting the Audience
- 3 Story and Character
- 4 Critical Script Analysis for Technical and Aesthetic Decision-Making
- 5 Training Your Gut
- 6 Developing an Evolving Aesthetic
- 7 Engaging and Surprising Characters
- 8 Applying Active Characters
- 9 What’s Your Point (of View)?
- 10 Synthesis
- 11 Post-Production Begins in Pre-Production
- 12 Cinematography Without a Camera
- 13 Understanding the Importance of Diegesis in Sound Design
- 14 The Long Listen… and Other Editing Structures
- 15 The Director’s Responsibilities to the Actor: Consider Your Childhood Play
- 16 Final Footholds: your Call to Action
- Appendix A: Character Analysis Sheet
- Appendix B: Questions to Train Your Gut
- Appendix C: Sample Marked-Up Script
- Appendix D: Sample-Implied Narrator Perspectives
- Index