The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics

Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics

by Michael Rabiger (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1997

    $7.78
Synopsis

A practical guide to directing including pre-production, production and post-production and a discussion of aesthetics and authorship. This comprehensive manuel aims to help anyone interested in becoming a screen fiction director. Its approach is to learn by practising techniques and attempts to disolve the barriers between the aesthetic and the technical. This revised and expanded edition contains sections on screen grammar, the basics of screen production and story editing. Blocking and camera movements receive more attention with more production projects and more about actors controlling the inner lives of their characters. There is also attention to how a director must think, feel, and act while creating a wrok for the screen, having a unified voice and point of view. This edition includes an expanded careers guide to international film schools.

$7.78

Save:$36.68 (82%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 512
 Edition: 2nd Revised edition
 Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 31 Jan 1997
ISBN 10: 0240802233
ISBN 13: 9780240802237

Media Reviews
'This is the only comprehensive book on filmmaking that I recommend to my students', Jeremy Kagan, USC Graduate Film School; Artistic Director Sundance Institute
'It is an inspirational and comprehensive book that also goes into the art
of story construction for the screen ...'
Author Bio
Michael Rabiger has directed or edited over 35 films, founded the Documentary Center at Columbia College, Chicago, and was Chair of its Film/Video Department. Now Professor Emeritus, Rabiger has also been presented with the Preservation and Scholarship Award by the International Documentary Association. He has given workshops in many countries, led a multinational European documentary workshop for CILECT, the international association of film schools. As Visiting Professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he taught idea development, directing, and advanced production. When he retired 2001 to write full-time, Columbia renamed its documentary center The Michael Rabiger Center for Documentary. In 2002 he was made Honorary Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; in 2003 awarded the 2003 Preservation and Scholarship Award by the International Documentary Association in Los Angeles; in 2005 the Genius Career Achievement Award by the Chicago International Documentary Festival, and also in 2005 was made Professor Emeritus by Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of the enormously successful, Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics (Focal Press), now in its fourth edition, and Directing the Documentary (Focal Press), now in its fifth edition. He is also the author of Developing Story Ideas (Focal Press), currently in its second edition. He is currently writing a biography of Thomas Hardy.