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Title: Film Directing Shot by Shot : Visualizing from Concept to Screen by Steve Katz ISBN: 0-941188-10-8 Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Pub. Date: 31 July, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (20 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Far from complete
Comment: A competent text in regards to the visualization of camera placement and movement required of directors. At the very least, it will aid you in communicating with the various people necessary to make films. However, this book falls far short of being a complete manual for a film director. It fails to address basic directing principles, such as the director's roles in shaping performances for the screen and breaking down the script emotionally. The latter being an essential step in "visualizing from concept to screen." Using this book as a resource as a director is fine, but make sure you supplement it with other texts, such as "Directing Actors" by Judith Weston. Do not buy this book assuming you are getting a comprehensive guide. If it's a more comprehensive guide you seek then I would recommend Michael Rabiger's "Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics."
Rating: 3
Summary: Katz takes simple concepts and makes them seem confusing
Comment: This book really gets you thinking about shot design and blocking, but Katz uses four times as many pages as he should. Katz takes simple concepts and makes them seem confusing.
Rating: 1
Summary: A boring, lifeless book.
Comment: This book was going to be required reading for a storyboarding class I'm teaching this fall. It was the book used by the teacher who last taught the class. After reading it, I've switched the required reading to "The Five C's of Cinematography."
This book lists shot type after shot type, page after page, but doesn't get into the reasoning of choosing one shot over another. As far as the how, where, when, and why goes, this book ignores the "why."
This book wastes many pages in the beginning telling the reader that storyboards are important. Of course they are! That's why I bought the freakin' book! This space could have been used to explain the difference between camera lenses and focal qualities, which are referred to constantly but never properly defined.
What I was expecting from this book was a good overview of the movie planning process. Instead, it is a mind-numbingly boring list of the different shots that could be used in film. Also, the quality of the author's storyboards that are used to illustrate the book do not fill me with optimism about the effectiveness of the book.
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Title: Film Directing, Cinematic Motion: A Workshop for Staging Scenes by Steven D. Katz ISBN: 0941188140 Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Setting Up Your Shots: Great Camera Moves Every Filmmaker Should Know by Jeremy Vineyard, Jose Cruz ISBN: 0941188736 Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age by Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus, Carol Keller, Robert Brun, Ted Spagna, Stephen McCarthy ISBN: 0452279577 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Five C's of Cinematography: Motion Picture Filming Techniques by Joseph V. Mascelli ISBN: 187950541X Publisher: Silman-James Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low Budget Movies by Dale Newton, John Gaspard ISBN: 0941188337 Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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