A Practical Guide to Motion Picture and Television Techniques: The Film Director

Richard L. Bare (Author); Robert Wise (Foreword by)

ISBN 10: 002012130X / ISBN 13: 9780020121305

Published by Collier Books/A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1978

About this Item

243 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Minimal, light, slight or very mild browning, tanning, foxing or discoloration on page edges, not affecting text.

Seller Inventory # 1FislCf0043

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Practical Guide to Motion Picture and Television Techniques: The Film Director
• Publisher: Collier Books/A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 002012130X
• ISBN 13: 9780020121305
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Collier Books Edition
• Printing: 4th Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Studies, Literary Theory & Lit. Criticsm
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Film, Movies, Cinema, Motion Pics

About this title

Synopsis

Whether you're planning a short for friends or for school, or a major career as a director, The Film Director should go at the top of your list - even before you buy your first roll of film. It's the first step-by-step practical handbook by a pro's pro - a student filmmaker (USC) turned professional - who has been an award-winning TV and movie director for two decades. Bare takes the beginner all the way from fundamentals of camera angle, sound synch, lighting and setting to what a beginning director's salary scale is and what he can expect to make on reruns of his films.

But here is much more than a solid, nuts-and-bolts textbook. It's a fascinating behind-the-camera look at the director's world, with firsthand examples from such giants as Hitchcock, Wilder, Kubrick, Nichols, Stevens, Wise and Vidor. And in addition to the mechanics and techniques of staging and handling the camera, it outlines the dramatic and emotional methods of coaxing the best performance from actors and actresses, and tells how to keep the story moving.