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Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, 6th Edition
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Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, 6th Edition

by Peter W. Rea, David K. Irving
May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
14h 51m
English
Focal Press
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Chapter three Breakdowns

DOI: 10.4324/9781003019985-6

There are certainly other people who want to figure out a lot more on set, and they think you kill it ahead of time if you work it out too far in advance, but it depends on your style. I normally helped by trying to figure out everything ahead of time.

Luke Matheny

Producer

Breaking Down the Script

Before a shooting schedule can be devised, the producer, in his role as production manager or line producer, examines the script from all practical angles. Up to now, the emphasis has been on making the structure and the dialogue of the story work. Although it might be dramatically effective for the main characters to have an intimate conversation in a park during a rainstorm on a bridge ...

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