Setting Up Your Shots

Author: Jeremy Vineyard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780941188739
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
A one-stop encyclopedia of visual storytelling techniques for directors, storyboard artists, home video enthusiasts, or anyone who simply wants to learn more about how movies are made.

Between the Scenes

Author: Jeffrey Michael Bays
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781615931699
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This text is written about the power of scene transitions as a visual storytelling tool. Make your audience feel your story on an emotional level through shifts in time, place, and character. Filmmaker, radio producer, and film scholar Jeffrey Michael Bays has taken what used to be vague instinct and turned it into the primary driving force behind connecting your audience emotionally with your story.

When Magic Calls

Author: Caitlin Berve
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952347009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Once upon a time a jealous girl stole a magical artifact from a museum to eliminate her competition. In the Rocky Mountains, a man studies a woman raised by wolves, but soon watching won't be enough. Tonight, you might find yourself in a fairy tale of your own. Will you answer magic's call?

Film School

Author: Richard D. Pepperman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932907414
Category : Cinematography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Watch the best DVD movies to inspire and teach you everything you need to know about being a filmmaker.

The Story Grid

Author: Shawn Coyne
Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC
ISBN: 1936891360
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 459

Book Description
WHAT IS THE STORY GRID? The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what is working, what is not, and what must be done to make what works better and fix what's not. The Story Grid breaks down the component parts of stories to identify the problems. And finding the problems in a story is almost as difficult as the writing of the story itself (maybe even more difficult). The Story Grid is a tool with many applications: 1. It will tell a writer if a Story ?works? or ?doesn't work. 2. It pinpoints story problems but does not emotionally abuse the writer, revealing exactly where a Story (not the person creating the Story'the Story) has failed. 3. It will tell the writer the specific work necessary to fix that Story's problems. 4. It is a tool to re-envision and resuscitate a seemingly irredeemable pile of paper stuck in an attic drawer. 5. It is a tool that can inspire an original creation.

The Eye is Quicker

Author: Richard D. Pepperman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Did you ever want to know how to apply simple and practical work techniques to all that film editing theory? Here is an authentic 'How-to' guide - adapatable to all tools and technologies - to make you a better editor of film or video. Pepperman's vibrant approach uses dozens of terrific sequences from a wide array of films to teach you how editing can make a good film better. He defines what is constant in all great work and gives you all the tips you need to achieve your own greatness.

Techniques of the Selling Writer

Author: Dwight V. Swain
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806186674
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement into scenes, and scenes into stories; how to develop characters, how to revise and polish, and finally, how to sell the product. No one can teach talent, but the practical skills of the professional writer's craft can certainly be taught. The correct and imaginative use of these kills can shorten any beginner's apprenticeship by years. This is the book for writers who want to turn rejection slips into cashable checks.

Film Directing Shot by Shot

Author: Steven Douglas Katz
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN: 9780941188104
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
An instant classic since its debut in 1991, Film Directing: Shot By Shot and its famous blue cover is one of the most well-known books on directing in the business, and is a favorite of professional directors as an on-set quick reference guide.

Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure

Author: Jack Bickham
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1599637979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability. An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller, after which "everything changed..." And the reader is hooked. But whether or not readers will stay on for the entire wild ride will depend on how well the writer structures the story, scene by scene. This book is your game plan for success. Using dozens of examples from his own work - including Dropshot,Tiebreaker and other popular novels - Jack M. Bickham will guide you in building a sturdy framework for your novel, whatever its form or length. You'll learn how to: • "worry" your readers into following your story to the end • prolong your main character's struggle while moving the story ahead • juggle cause and effect to serve your story action As you work on crafting compelling scenes that move the reader, moment by moment, toward the story's resolution, you'll see why... • believable fiction must make more sense than real life • every scene should end in disaster • some scenes should be condensed, and others built big Whatever your story, this book can help you arrive at a happy ending in the company of satisfied readers.

The Craft of Writing

Author: William Sloane
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393300505
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 123

Book Description
A writer, editor, publisher, and teacher, Sloane presents his ideas on writing and on teaching the craft of writing in chapters derived chiefly from lectures presented at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference