Directing The Film

Introduction - The Film Director = xvii One - A Director Is Born, A Film Begins 1. Who is a Director? = 3 Keep This in Mind - Or, Some Basic Principles = 4 Breaking and Entering = 8 Producers and Other Strangers = 17 The Producer = 17 The Money = 21 2. The Script - A Director's Currency = 24 Genres and Mechanics = 26 Adaptations = 32 Switches = 35 The Craft = 36 Collaboration = 43 Following the Plan = 45 The Evolving Script = 49 Two - Film as a Battleground 3. Forming an Army = 55 The Combat Field = 55 Budget = 65 Casting = 68 Stars - "Creatures of the Camera" = 69 Outside the Orbit = 71 Professionals and Non-Actors = 80 4. Drilling the Soldiers - Rehearsal = 85 5. First Principles - Shooting Methods = 97 Preplanning = 97 Storyboards - Pro and Con = 98 Diagrams - Pro and Con = 100 Preconceptions and Chance = 102 Research and Preparation = 103 Staging for the Camera = 104 Masters = 104 Blocking = 105 Camera Placement = 106 Long Takes = 107 Movement = 108 Shooting in Sequence = 109 Coverage - Low and High Shooting Ratio = 110 Multiple Cameras = 116 Considering the Actor - Staying Loose = 118 Enhancing the Actor = 119 Cutting to a Close-up = 120 Number of Takes = 121 Number of Setups per Day = 122 Simple Storytelling = 122 Chases / Gags = 124 Locations versus Sets = 125 Wide-Screen = 128 Lenses = 129 Color = 131 Lighting = 132 Split-Screen = 133 Looping = 134 Film and Television = 134 Instant Playback = 135 Special Effects = 135 Three - Under the Lights 6. On the Set = 139 The Director's Role = 139 Shaping Chance = 153 7. Directing Actors = 160 Stage and Screen = 160 The Director As Midwife = 162 Freedom and Discipline - Finding the Key = 166 As You Like It ... Or, Let Me Give You a Few Examples = 173 Fear and Trembling = 178 Modes of Communication = 183 Talent at the Core - Instint, Intelligence, Ideas = 188 Improvisation = 192 8. Visuals and Camerawork = 201 Visuals - Ideas and Images = 201 The Director-Cameraman Relationship = 204 How Important? How Difficult? = 213 General Approaches and Techniques - Some Respresentative Comments = 215 Composition and Camera Placement = 215 Lighting = 217 Lenses and Perspective = 217 Color versus Black and White = 220 The Camera's Effect = 222 How the Material Necessities and the Camera Interplay = 223 A Discussion - The Nature of Camerawork = 226 9. Film Editing = 231 The Art of Film Editing - An Analysis = 231 The Importance of Film Editing = 243 The Director-Editor Relationship = 245 Some General Watchwords = 250 Some Methods and Examples = 253 Using Sound = 257 The Director's Cut = 262 Previews = 263 Distribution = 266 Four - "Cinema" 10. Film as Art = 271 Film as Constituted out of Many Kinds of Work = 272 Film, Theatre, and the Other Arts = 276 Reflections on the Art of Film = 281 Doing What's "Personal" = 283 The Director as Auteur = 285 The Director as Collaborator = 288 The Director as Stylist = 289 Influences - Plus and Minus = 294 Documentary = 299 11. Viewing Film = 308 The Audience = 308 The Question = 308 The Answer : Yes = 309 The Answer : Maybe = 312 If So, What? = 314 The Answer : No = 321 Messages = 322 Critics = 324 The Changing Audience = 325 Film Education = 327 Biographies = 334 Index = 345

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