The Filmmaker's Eye

Produktbeschreibung

This fully revised and updated edition of the classic book on cinematic composition provides readers with the necessary skills and technical know-how to create polished and narratively eloquent images, using a unique approach that combines an analytical, technical, and aesthetic understanding of the essential visual grammar of the shot. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

acknowledgments; preface to the second edition; introduction; finding the frame;
image systems; rules of cinematic composition & technical concepts; SIZES;
extreme close¿up; close¿up; medium close¿up; medium shot; medium long shot; long
shot; extreme long shot; CONVENTIONS; over the shoulder shot; establishing shot;
subjective shot; two shot; group shot; split¿screen shot; canted shot; overhead
shot; inverted shot; emblematic shot; abstract shot; macro shot; zoom shot;
DYNAMICS; pan shot; tilt shot; dolly shot; dolly zoom shot; tracking shot;
Steadicam® shot*; crane shot; aerial shot; sequence shot; filmography; image
credits; index 

Autoreninfo

Gustavo Mercado is an award-winning independent filmmaker with well over a decade of experience as a writer, director, and cinematographer of narrative films. The first edition of The Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition, was translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean, and is being used by film programs at colleges and universities worldwide. His second title in the Filmmaker's Eye film book series, The Language of the Lens: The Power of Lenses and The Expressive Cinematic Image was translated into Turkish, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Ukranian. He teaches cinematography, editing, screenwriting, and film production at Hunter College's Film & Media Studies Department in New York City.