Big Picture: Filmmaking Lessons from a Life on the Set - Softcover

Reilly, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906964157 ISBN 13: 9781906964153

Publisher: Old Street Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Tom Reilly has spent three decades making movies, working with some of the best film crews in the world. In The Big Picture he uses fifty short, pithy essays to share what he has learned on the sets of critically acclaimed films and commercial blockbusters. He illuminates the craft and the personalities that go into making a great movie.

The Big Picture is a must-have book for any aspiring filmmaker who wants to know the secrets of the pros, or for movie buffs who want to know what really happens on the sets of their favorite films.

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About the Author

TOM REILLY is a member of the Directors Guild of America and has worked in the motion picture industry for the past thirty years. Veteran of more than forty films, Reilly worked with Woody Allen on classics such as Crimes and Misdemeanors, Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Bullets Over Broadway, Hannah and Her Sisters, Purple Rose of Cairo, and Zelig. He has also been assistant director on other major motion pictures such as Big, The Prince of Tides, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Pick-up Artist, Sabrina, and Great Expectations. He is married, has three children, and lives in Westchester County, New York.

From Publishers Weekly

After working on more than 40 films as an assistant director and associate producer, Reilly has written a valuable guide that film students and novice filmmakers will find illuminating and insightful. In 50 short essays Reilly analyzes the problems that often surface on movie sets, and offers solutions. He walks the reader through techniques he has observed over the years while working on films with Alfonso Cuarón, Sydney Pollack, Woody Allen and other top directors. The approach is not a routine rehashing of Hollywood anecdotes but a crash course covering specific situations and working methods: Woody may not plan the day's shots until he is on the set on any given day, but he absolutely considers the abutting scenes and how they were, or will be, shot. Reilly opens with film set slang and jargon (martini = last shot of the day) and then moves on to cover everything from schedules, blocking actor movements, camera angles and master shots to variables in sunlight and the color palette: Before you settle on that dress you think possibly might be raspberry pink, consider what color the walls will be painted on the set where the dress will be worn. Every page is packed with such practical tips and insider information, and Reilly caps off his fascinating facts and figures with a glossary of film terms. Minus padding or wasted words, this is a book that could well become a bible and standard reference text for aspiring filmmakers. (May)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Old Street Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906964157
• ISBN 13: 9781906964153
• Binding: Paperback