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Directing Single Camera Drama
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Directing Single Camera Drama

by Mike Crisp
December 1997
Beginner
192 pages
4h 23m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER

1 Introduction

 

 

When any event is recorded by a camera that image is stylized. The very act of photography reduces our three-dimensional world to a world of two dimensions. If the scene is captured by a motion picture camera then time, which is so inexorable in the three-dimensional world, becomes malleable – even cheatable. The loss of the third dimension endows the film maker with control over time. It may seem esoteric, even pretentious, but an appreciation of that basic truth is the foundation of all creative direction.

Stage and screen

The audience in the theatre can have its attention drawn to particular parts of the stage by all sorts of devices. The simplest would be to have parts of the stage in darkness and only those ...

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