Film Directing Fundamentals: See Your Film Before Shooting

Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on the screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, this book provides clear-cut ways to translate a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint, the reader is led through specific techniques to analyse and translate its components into a visual story. A sample screenplay is included that explicates the techniques. The book assumes no knowledge and thus introduces basic concepts and terminology. The fourth edition is updated with a new foreword by Student Academy Award-winner Jimmy Keyrouz, who studied with Nick Proferes, and enhanced companion web materials featuring new analyses of contemporary films.