Directing, 4th Edition

INTRODUCTION

Here is a practical, comprehensive film directing manual. It will prepare you like no other for the methods, thought processes, feelings, and judgments that a direc-tor must use throughout the fascinating experience of creating a film. By talking to you directly and respectfully as a colleague, and by offering hands-on projects as learning tools, it recognizes that you learn best from doing.

Making films that speak with your own voice and identity will engage your head, your hands, and your heart, and enhance every aspect of your waking life.

Film makes extreme demands on its makers so this book makes an ideal com-panion for the self-taught or for anyone going to film school. There, coursework of necessity focuses on surmounting ...