A Quick Guide to Film Directing - Softcover

Morton, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879108061 ISBN 13: 9780879108069

Publisher: Limelight, 2014

Synopsis

(Quick Guide). A Quick Guide to Film Directing provides the reader with a concise and comprehensive overview of this creative and exciting occupation. Written in a fast-paced, easy-to-understand fashion, the book addresses such topics as what film direction is; the history of the profession; how to become a director; the creative and practical duties and challenges of a film director in the three stages of making a movie (preproduction, production, and postproduction); working with actors; working with the members of the technical crew (cinematographers, editors, production designers, etc.); the director's support team (assistant director, production manager, and so on); and the business of being a film director. It also offers a brief look at some of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of the cinema.

About this title

About the Author

Ray Morton (Los Angeles, CA) is a writer and script consultant. He is the author of the “Meet the Reader” column at Scriptmag.com and of six previous film-related books: King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson; Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Making of Steven Spielberg's Classic Film; Amadeus: Music on Film; A Hard Day's Night: Music on Film; A Quick Guide to Screenwriting; and A Quick Guide to Television Writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Limelight
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879108061
• ISBN 13: 9780879108069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104