Contents
Artistic Identity
- The Job of the Director
- Identifying Your Themes as a Director
- Developing Your Story Ideas
- Checklist
- Screencraft
- Screen Grammar
- Seeing with a Moviemaker's Eye
- Shooting Projects
- Checklist
- Writing
- The Screenplay
- The Process of Writing
- Adaptation from Art or Life
- Story Development Strategies
- Scene-Writing Exercises
- Checklist
- Aesthetics and Authorship
- Point of View
- Genre, Conflict, and Dialectics
- Structure, Plot, and Time
- Space, Stylized Environments, and Performances
- Form and Style
- Checklist
- Preproduction
- Interpreting the Script
- Casting
- Directing Actors
- Actors' Problems
- Improvisation Work to Explore Acting
- Exercises with a Text
- Rehearsal and Development
- Director and Actor Prepare a Scene
- Final Rehearsals and Planning Coverage
- Checklist
- Production
- Developing a Crew
- Mise en Scene Basics
- Getting Ready to Shoot
- Directing the Crew
- Monitoring Progress
- Checklist
- Postproduction
- Preparing to Edit
- Editing the First Assembly
- Editing from Rough Cut to Fine Cut
- Editing: Finalization
- Editing from Fine Cut to Sound Mix
- Titles and Acknowledgments
- Checklist
- Career Track
- Planning a Career
- Major International Film/Video Schools
- Breaking into the Industry
- Checklist
- Further Information
- Glossary
- Select Bibliography
· Index
