CHAPTER 23
PLANNING THE VISUAL DESIGN
Conceiving a film’s visual design begins when you first analyze the screenplay and start imagining your film’s aesthetic and visual style. During preproduction the director is tremendously busy: while you develop dramatic content and logic with your actors in rehearsals, you are also working with the principal creative crew at developing the film’s visual design. This means deciding in detail for every scene the style and look of the settings, lighting, and camerawork.
We explored the broad aesthetic principles of naturalistic or stylistic approaches in Part 4: Authorship and Aesthetics, and now concepts must be turned into the practical. To precisely create an expressive and coherent visual ...
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