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Producing A Shooting Script
If you shot rehearsals documentary-style, you will already have a good sense of the coverage you want, and its optimal camera positions. Final decisions must be taken with your director of photography (DP). Simple poverty may preclude dol-lying or craning shots, but this, after all, is elegant packaging—its absence should never debilitate a worthwhile film.
Responsibility for the graphic aspects of filmmaking lies variously with the director, cinematographer, and art director. Steven D. Katz’s Cinematic Motion: A Workshop for Staging Scenes (Film Directing) (Michael Wiese Productions, 2004) does a fine job explaining the staging options for different kinds of scenes. However, many of the book’s ...
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