The Director's Idea

Acknowledgments

The Director’s Idea is a book that comes out of my teaching experience with production students at New York University and with professional producers and editors at the Maurits Binger Institute in Amsterdam. In earlier books I had examined the storytelling tools of the screenwriter as well as of the editor. Now students and professionals have pushed for an articulation of the storytelling tools of the director.

Needless to say, a book such as The Director’s Idea needs and gets a lot of help from many quarters. At Focal Press I’d like to thank Elinor Actipis, the acquiring editor as well as Becky Golden-Harrell and Paul Gottehrer who each in their own way have helped move the book to completion. I’d like to thank my friend Maura ...