Contents

Artistic Identity

• The Job of the Director
• Identifying Your Themes as a Director
• Developing Your Story Ideas
• Checklist
• Screencraft
• Screen Grammar
• Seeing with a Moviemaker's Eye
• Shooting Projects
• Checklist
• Writing
• The Screenplay
• The Process of Writing
• Adaptation from Art or Life
• Story Development Strategies
• Scene-Writing Exercises
• Checklist
• Aesthetics and Authorship
• Point of View
• Genre, Conflict, and Dialectics
• Structure, Plot, and Time
• Space, Stylized Environments, and Performances
• Form and Style
• Checklist
• Preproduction
• Interpreting the Script
• Casting
• Directing Actors
• Actors' Problems
• Improvisation Work to Explore Acting
• Exercises with a Text
• Rehearsal and Development
• Director and Actor Prepare a Scene
• Final Rehearsals and Planning Coverage
• Checklist
• Production
• Developing a Crew
• Mise en Scene Basics
• Getting Ready to Shoot
• Directing the Crew
• Monitoring Progress
• Checklist
• Postproduction
• Preparing to Edit
• Editing the First Assembly
• Editing from Rough Cut to Fine Cut
• Editing: Finalization
• Editing from Fine Cut to Sound Mix
• Titles and Acknowledgments
• Checklist
• Career Track
• Planning a Career
• Major International Film/Video Schools
• Breaking into the Industry
• Checklist
• Further Information
• Glossary
• Select Bibliography

·  Index