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5 Directing: Aesthetic Principles and Production Coordination
• What are directing aesthetics approaches?
• How do shots vary?
• What does composition mean to a director?
• How are shots combined into sequences and scenes?
• How do single- and multiple-camera directing differ?
Introduction
Video and film directors are artists who can take a completed script and imaginatively transform it into exciting sounds and images. Directors creatively organize many facets of production to produce works of art. They know how and when to use different types of camera shots and have mastered the use of composition, image qualities, transition devices, and relations of time and space. Directors know when and how to use different types of ...
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