Whether you need to learn the difference between a jump cut and a match cut or you’re a working filmmaker looking for visual ideas on how to best communicate the stories you want to tell, Setting Up Your Shots is an encyclopedia of camera moves and cinematic storytelling techniques that directors of more...

This is not another “how-to-make-a-movie” book. This book is about how to be successful at making your movies in a very competitive market. Scott Billups’ experience-backed advice will kick your professionalism, tool set and image quality up a notch so that you can compete in the real world of more...

The Independent Directing Bible that will fit in your back pocket!
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Have you always wanted to direct a movie, but don’t know how to start?

Want to know how to get your first directing job?

What do directors even more...

Cinematic Motion has helped directors create a personal camera style and master complex staging challenges for over a decade. Since digital technology has revolutionized filmmaking, this second edition adds chapters on digital visualization and script breakdown .
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_Slavko Vorkapich was an artist, special effects artist, film theoretician, director, and montage specialist who is most noted for his montage work on many classic films, including Viva Villa, David Copperfield, San Francisco, The Good Earth, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He was also a highly more...

Never before have the means of cinematic storytelling been put into the hands of so many. Thousands of new storytellers are taking advantage of media that did not exist a decade ago. With entry-level HD recorders, even beginning students have access to low-cost, professional-quality image making. more...

Setups, angles, and staging for 100 dialogue scenes.
Features over 500 photos and illustrations!

Building on the success of the best-selling first volume, Master Shots, Vol. 2 goes much deeper, revealing the great directors’ secrets for giving life to the standard dialogue more...

Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on the screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, this book provides clear-cut ways to translate a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint, the reader is more...

A complete catalogue of visual techniques and their stylistic implications for both the filmmaker and videomaker. A textbook which enables filmmakers (as well as screenwriters and others) to expand their stylistic knowledge. Contents include: visualization tools, storyboard style, continuity style, more...

From script analysis to post production, here is the all-inclusive guide to directing for film and television. Written by noted director-producer Myrl Schreibman, The Film Director Prepares offers practical insights on filmmaking, using real-life examples directors won_t learn in school. With topics more...

TOTAL DIRECTING is the first book to fully integrate the technical aspects of screen directing with practical methods for directing actors, deeply and carefully exploring how these two primary aspects of the director_s craft work together. more...

This book is a master guide for the director about collaborating with their closest ally, the cinematographer.

It covers the fundamentals of selecting a cinematographer, translating the script into visual imagery, choosing the appropriate visual style for the film, determining the color more...

This book is not about where to put the camera. It_s not about the great masters of the cinema. This book is about one thing: being hired to direct film and television again and again. more...

This approach, honed after years of on-set experience and from teaching, aims to provide a helpful reference and resource for directors and actors alike. It combines underlying theory with dozens of exercises designed to reveal the actor’s craft. more...

Want to make an art film, a documentary, a video biography? Here's how to create real movies using consumer digital video format without spending a lot of money or time. more...