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Film Directing Fundamentals, 4th Edition
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Film Directing Fundamentals, 4th Edition

by Nicholas T. Proferes
July 2017
Beginner
340 pages
11h 13m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 8Staging and Camera for A Piece of Apple Pie

Staging

After we have drawn the floor plan of the diner (Figure 8-1), where do we start? In some scenes we might start at the beginning and work forward, and if we find that we are painting ourselves into a corner we can make adjustments. That’s what our eraser is for. In general, you will find that for most dramatic scenes the fulcrum can be a fruitful place to begin choreographing your blocking. (Because A Piece of Apple Pie is also a complete film, some might call it the turning point, but because I consider the fulcrum to be a director’s tool for articulation of this significant dramatic moment, I will refer to it as such.) However, for this scene, there is some other business to figure ...

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