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
