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On Film-Making – An introduction to the craft of the director
Table of Contents
Prologue
Part One: Dramatic Construction
- The Pre-Verbal Language of Cinema
- What is a Story?
- Exposition
- Modernist Trends
- A Technique for Having Ideas
- Slogans for the Screenwriter's Wall
- Exercises for the Student of Dramatic Construction
- When Not to Write a Shooting Script
- Once Upon a Time…
- Activity versus Action
- Dramatic Irony
- William Archer Revisited
- Plausibility and Willing Suspension of Disbelief
- Density and Subplots in Sweet Smell of Success
- Cutting Dialogue
- The Solomon Exercise
- The Director and the Actor
Part Two: Film Grammar
- The Invisible Imaginary Ubiquitous Winged Witness
- How to be Meaningless
- Mental Geography
- Condensing Screen Time
- Drawing Lesson
- Point of View
- The Axis
- Shot-to-Shot Relationships
- Camera Coverage
- Camera Movement
- Citizen Kane
Epilogue