352 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

The Film Handbook examines the current state of filmmaking and how film language , technique and aesthetics are being utilised for today’s ‘digital film’ productions. It reflects on how critical analysis’ of film underpins practice and story, and how developing an autonomous ‘vision’ will best aid student creativity. The Film Handbook offers practical guidance on a range of traditional and... Read more

Forward Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC  Introduction  Part 1: Film Language And Aesthetics  1. Renaissance of (Digital) Film  2. Developing Mise-en-Scene  3. Directing the Actor  4. Cinematography: Painting with Motion  5. Sound Underpinning Image  6. Editing: Temporality & Structure  Part 2: Film Theory In Practice  7. Reading The Screen  8. Spectatorship and Audience  9. Contemporary Cinema  10. Eisenstein and Bazin: Formalism & Realism, Two Modes of Practice  11. Genre  Part 3: Guerrilla Filmmaking: Practice As Subversion  12. Experimentation and the Short Film Format 13. Working with Non-Professional Actors  14. The Avant-garde, Subtext, & Symbolism  15. Documentary as Resistance  Part 4: Persistence Of Vision  16. Screenwriting: From Script to Screen John Brice  17. Soundtracks: Using Music in Film Paul Rutter  18. Post Film: Technology and the Digital Film  Part 5: Merging and Immerging Media: Developing a Professional Specialism  19. Post-Film: Production, Distribution and Consumption in the Digital Age  20. Mapping a Career Path

Biography

Dr. Mark de Valk is Senior Lecturer in Film & Television Studies at Southampton Solent University. He specialises in guerrilla/indie-filmmaking processes and continues to produce, direct and write productions in documentary, drama, and experimental formats.

Dr. Sarah Arnold is Lecturer in Film & Digital Media at University College Falmouth and is author of Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood (2013).