Acknowledgments

I wish to thank my editors at Focal Press, Elinor Actipis and Michele Cronin, for presenting me with the wonderful opportunity to write the second edition of this time honored text, Grammar of the Shot. Of course, this would not be possible without the ground work done by Mr. Roy Thompson on the first edition. I hope that this revised version continues to inform and inspire all those readers who are just beginning their creative journey into the world of shooting motion pictures.

As an educator today, I wish to acknowledge the positive impact that my instructors at Brandeis University and Boston University had on me during my own higher education. The broad scope of the Liberal Arts was great preparation for the specific focus ...

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