Cinematic Storytelling

The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know

Jennifer Van Sijll - Collection Cinema/Filmmaking

256 pages, parution le 24/11/2005

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Résumé

Dialog is one of the best known - and obvious - elements in a film. But the language of cinema is more subtle and sophisticated than dialog alone. From Metropolis to Kill BilL this remarkable reference guide reveals 100 of the most potent storytelling tools of the film medium. It demonstrates how master screenwriters and directors depend on cinematic devices to pump up action, create characters, and energize a motion picture's plot.

Cinematic Storytelling compresses 100 years of film history, outlining the important connection between film technique and storytelling. It shows how the purposeful use of film techniques like lighting, editing, and sound can evoke audience emotions like fear, hatred, or anger without a word of dialog. It demonstrates how character values and themes are expressed cumulatively over time and nonverbally. In this, the reader is given both the critical tools to better understand modern moviemaking and the creative tools to more fully exploit the dramatic potential of the medium.

Here's what you'll learn from this book:

17 basic building blocks of cinematic language
100 examples of cinematic techniques to create powerfully layered scenes
100 definitions of cinematic tools
How to exploit sound, picture, and camera motion as storytelling devices
How to show character change without using dialog
How filmmakers marry story with film technique
All this and more illustrated through frame grabs and script excerpts from 100 of the most celebrated scenes in movie history

The mastery of cinematic storytelling unites all successful film artists in their shared fluency in the sight, sound, and motion of movies. If you want to take your screenplay and or your film appreciation to the next level, this hook will get you there.

L'auteur - Jennifer Van Sijll

Jennifer van Sijll. who has an MFA from USC's Department of Cinema-Television, teaches screenwriting at San Francisco State and consults on film and television projects in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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Acknowledgments
Preface: Cinematic Storytelling
Introduction
Space: 2-D & 3-D Screen Direction
Frame: Composition
Shape Within the Frame
Editing: Pudovkin's Five Editing Techniques
Time
Sound Effects
Music
Scene Transitions (Audio and Visual)
Camera Lenses
Camera Position
Camera Motion
Lighting
Color
Props
Wardrobe
Locations
Natural Environment

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Michael Wiese Productions (MWP)
Auteur(s)	Jennifer Van Sijll
Collection	Cinema/Filmmaking
Parution	24/11/2005
Nb. de pages	256
Format	28 x 19
Couverture	Broché
Poids	681g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781932907056
ISBN13	978-1-932907-05-6