PART 2
SCREENCRAFT
This part (Chapters 4 through 6) contains a detailed moviemaking workout, beginning with the origins of screen language as an approximation of human perceptual processes. Once you grasp the idea, you can practice applying it to your own consciousness at any time and in any place. Next, we look critically at film language and see how well the makers of a film have used film techniques to approximate human perceptual habits. This is when you analyze a film minutely, a radically different activity from free-associating with what you remember from a viewing. A study project in this part compares the original screenplay of a film with how the director interpreted and transformed it. This allows you to peer speculatively into the ...
Get Directing, 3rd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
