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Highly recommended. A catalogue of visual techniques and their stylistic implications using a combination of storyboarding and still photos of shots that enables screenwriters, directors, and editors to excellently construct scenes.
So far the book offers outlines of ideas and tips nothing profound. I expected something completely different.
"Bambi vs Godzilla" another superb read on what it REALLY takes to put it ALL together.Finally "Reel to Deal". No ONE book can "teach" you everything about "directing". When you are done, you will know more than 99% of MOST producers, directors and actors about making movies. A primer on ALL things about film making.IF you are serious about directing, or making films read this book and the ones above. But if you are lucky, you can learn how someone else might approach the task of directing.Even though I have directed 6 features I learned several new tricks in this book that I applied directly to my next movie.This is not a "fluff" book. The author creates his vision of the important details of "directing".From pre-production to edting I found this a GREAT book with lots of visuals.As a comic book artist ( I think in little pictures and words) I thought the illustrations in the book were great and there are lots of them.Sydeny Lumets book "Making Movies" is a MUST read.
Also, I don't like the author's terminology and ad infinitum descriptions of (seemingly) EVERY possible blocking scheme in the universe. The problem with this book is it's WAY too confusing and gets into far too much detail for noobs. AND, anyone with some experience is not going to need to re-learn technique.
Katz doesn't talk about the art of direction and the connection between the script, the characters, and the camera shots.If you want to learn the complicated art of the direction you must read other more interesting books, like "Film Directing Fundamentals" by Nicholas Proferes, "Cinematic Storytelling" by Jennifer Van Sijll or "The The Five C's of Cinematography" by Joseph V. Also you can analyze an Hitchcock's movie "shot by shot". This is a book about all the types of shots, but it has a serious problem. Mascelli. Any movie of Hitch is a master class. The writer doesn't explain the emotional meaning of all those shots. If you read this book, you will know the positions and angles that a cameraman uses; but you won't know nothing about when, and why, employ this angles.
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