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The Essential TV Director's Handbook
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The Essential TV Director's Handbook

by Peter Jarvis
October 2013
Beginner
224 pages
5h 36m
English
Routledge
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INDEX

Action continuity, demonstrations 101–2

Action (director's call) 131, 133

Agents, actors' 187

American Shot see Medium Long Shot (MLS)

Angle of view 20–3

Assembly script 144–5

Auditions, casting 186

Autocues 119

 

Big Close-Up (BCU) 14, 15

Blocking the shots 110–11

for drama 189–90

British Actors' Equity 185, 188

 

Camera mountings

for cars 54

for music recording 178

Camera movements 85–6

angles 16–18

left/right directions 79

line up 70–3

panning 86–7

tilting 87

see also Zooming

Camera operator, and director 49–50

Camera shake 21

Canted angle effect 93–4

Car interviews 53–5

simulation 55

Casting 184–5

Chairs, importance of design 64–5

Clapperboard 131

Close-Up (CU) 12–13

Commentary script 138–40

delivery 146, 147

editing 142–50

preparation ...

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ISBN: 9780240515038