Direct your own damn movie!
Film is a visual medium, the work of Eric Rohmer and Kevin Smith notwithstanding. It is important for a director and cinemtographer to use their VISUAL EYES in order to VISUALIZE how to make their movie most effective. Also, there is the messy business of actors. Generally, movies have them, and d...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Focal Press/Elsevier
c2009.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627310006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Direct Your Own Damn Movie!; Copyright; Contents; Foreword (Maybe Backward); Foreword Part II; Preface - Directile Disfunction; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1Joining the Army of One; Why You Should (A) Not Drown Kittens and (B) Buy This Book; Me Actually Following My Own Advice; Now It's Your Turn to Follow My Advice; Sidebar: Penelope Spheeris Rocks Out on Rockin' the Boat; Sidebar: Bill Lustig on Porn Versus Film School; Summoning Your Inner Dominatrix; Something Great the French Gave Us, Besides a Fantastic Way to Make Out and a Tasty Way to Prepare Potatoes; All Pricks, Big and Small
- My Big Fat Budget Studio Dream WeddingWhat It All Means; Sidebar: Eli Roth Says... (Film School Versus Set Experience); Hollywood, Hot Celebs, and Herpes; CHAPTER 2It's the Shit! ... Er, Script!; My Own Personal Piece of Hell; Sidebar: Whit Stillman and Oscar; The Write Stuff: Putting Your Ideas on Paper; Sidebar: Getting Into Directing ... Ron Jeremy Style; A Note on Formatting; I Have an Idea, Now What?; Breathing Life into the Story, As You Would a Drowning Kitten; A Location is Always Better (and Often Cheaper) Than a Set; Writing and Re-Writing; Colors that Don't Result in Drive-bys
- You Could Put an Eye Out with that Thing!Numbering Your Scenes; The Poor Man's Copyright; Enter the Cowriter; And Now a Few Words from Kurly; And Now, Back to Lloyd; Sidebar: Eli Roth ... Sums It All Up; Let's Get Cracking!; CHAPTER 3 Show, Don't Tell, and Other Things My Uncle Lance Whispered to Me in the Basement; The ""Eyes"" Have It!; Sidebar: Making Mistakes ... Ron Jeremy Style; Styles of Storytelling; A Quick Primer on Things that I Will Repeat in the Coming Chapters; Location, Location, Location; No Country for Old Jews; Sidebar: Stuart Gordon on Directing Horror
- The Tools of the Trade: Your Filmmaking Tool KitPractical Directing Tips, As Per Elinor; Sidebar: Lloyd's Interview with His Good Pal, Stan Lee; CHAPTER 4 Preproduction: My Own Private Idaho (and by Idaho, I, of course, mean Hell); The Point?; This May Hurt a Little; Sidebar: A Glimpse Inside Lloyd's Head; An Army of One ... Rarely Wins the War; The Dream ... Er ... Troma Team; You Say Hypocrite Like It's a Bad Thing; The Last Line Sums It Up Here; One of Many Ways to Avoid Infection on a Troma Set; The Film Crew; Sidebar: How the Troma System Prepared Me For Prison
- The Manson Family on LSD with Very Little Money ... And the Production ManagerOut of the Frying Pan (Hell) and into the Fire (Hell); BONUS CHAPTER Directors That Pee Sitting Down: An Interview with Penelope Spheeris and Allison Anders; CHAPTER 5Casting: Stick to Fish, Avoid the Toilet Seats; Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe...; The Quest Begins; Love in the Time of Photoshop; The Almost-Open Call; Sidebar: James Gunn Knows Funny; Sidebar: Penelope Spheeris Rocks Out on Funny; Mention James Gunn a Little More ... People Like That Fucker; The Truth about Actors
- Trimming the Fat (Figuratively, Not Necessarily Literally)
