Director's introductory book recommendation

Fundamentals of Film and Television Directors is a book published by Communication University of China Press in 2009 by Wang Xinyu. This book is the basic teaching material in this field, providing some knowledge and help for people who love film and television directors inside and outside the industry.

2. Introduction to Classical Film Theory

This book is a classic of Dudley Andrew, a famous American film theorist, which clearly and thoroughly excavates the tradition and core of the main film theory in the classic period. The writer is Dudley Andrew.

3. Focus on graphic design: from concept to screen.

Focus Graphic Design: From Conception to Screen is a book published by Houlang Publishing Consulting (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and World Book Publishing Company on 20 10. The author is Katz.

4. Director's Photography Class

The director's photography tutorial 20 14 was published by Houlang Publishing Company, a world book publishing company, by Jacqueline Frost. This is a course for directors and photographers at UCLA.

5. Youth film handbook

The first professional book in China, A Guide to Film Criticism, Director Dialogue, Film Theory, Film Creation and Exhibition. With the goal of "gathering the power of filmmakers online", we pay attention to the growth and development of new people and the new wave trend of film business and art in China. Now the editor-in-chief is Cheng Qingsong.

6. "Making movies"

Making movies is the life story of movie master Ferini. In this book, he recalls his fleeting time, tells his fantastic ideas about movies and the inextricable connection between movies and life. Through his frank and humorous writing and personalized artistic interpretation, we will re-appreciate the charming "Ferini style" between the lines.

Ferini is recognized as one of the most talented directors in film history. He, ingmar bergman and Andrew Tarkovsky are also called the "Trinity" of the world's modern art films. He directed the greatest films of the 20th century, such as Sweet Life, Amakot, Eight and a Half, The Road, One Night in Kabila and The Wanderer, and won five Academy Awards and various film festival awards.

7. Film language grammar

This book is a tutorial on film narrative skills written by Uruguayan film director Danielle Alihong based on her own creative experience. Its professionalism, practicality and classicality have been recognized by film and television colleges all over the world. This book deals with key issues in film production, such as camera position, scene scheduling, editing and so on. , and discusses in detail the handling of dialogue scenes between two or more actors, the application of the principle of lens position triangle, internal and external backhand, etc.

The structure of the book is rigorous, clear and accurate, with nearly 500 illustrations throughout, which is convenient for readers to fully understand and master. In addition, the typical passages of a large number of classic films, such as North by Northwest, Magnification, Love in Hiroshima and bridge on the river kwai, are analyzed from many angles, which profoundly reveals the gripping mystery.

8. How to direct actors: A required course for directors.

Judith Weston, a Hollywood star tutor, shared her teaching experience for more than 30 years, deeply analyzed the psychological state of the director and the actors in cooperation, helped the director keep a clear head in the complicated scenery and provided accurate and meticulous guidance for the actors.

This book has been sold well for more than ten years since its publication, and has been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish and Korean, and has been listed as a designated reading by major film and television universities and Hollywood film companies around the world. The script analysis methods, rehearsal skills and a series of guidelines from casting to shooting introduced by him not only have a guiding role for directors, but also broaden the horizons and inspiration of actors and screenwriters.

9. The Birth of the Director: My First Film

This is an interesting and frank interview with contemporary directors, focusing on the ten "newcomers" in the world film industry from the first independent feature film. Their growing backgrounds, personalities, interests and opportunities are different. They include linklater, who came from a non-professional class and gambled on his possessions, Mendes, who bravely broke through high-level studios, Kapoor, who gave up his golden rice bowl as an accountant in Bollywood, Castrica, who won the Palme d 'Or twice, and Modi Sen, whose debut movie box office surpassed Titanic, who changed tracks at the peak of his career and became Inarito, the "film festival prize harvester" from now on.

Under the guidance of lowenstein, the directors recalled all kinds of hardships when they first directed the tube, from finding funds, actors and shooting venues, fighting side by side with the crew members, and finally filming the film festival, which opened the most exhausting road for readers to be reborn. The road is funny, tragic, bloody and sharp, and the taste is as wonderful as their works.

10, Talking with Eyes: Principles and Applications of Image Vision

This book introduces the basic visual elements such as space, line and shape, tone, color, movement and rhythm, and how to use these elements to control the visual structure, express the feelings of the characters, express the theme of the story, and then create a more expressive image.

Bruce Brock, the author, has more than 30 years of working experience in film and television industry and film teaching experience, and has a profound and unique understanding of the visual structure of images. The book has been translated into five languages and is a classic course for film majors.

1 1, the director's creation manual.

This book introduces in detail the functions, cooperation emphases and operation principles of editing, directing, shooting, beauty shooting, recording and other departments, helps the director plan his career, covers the methods, shooting skills, creative thinking and judgment criteria that the director must understand in the whole film creation process, and reveals how to make such a huge shooting team with clear division of labor cooperate sincerely to successfully complete the story that the director wants to tell.

This book emphasizes low-cost digital production technology to help creators ensure the best creativity and professionalism under a limited budget. The author attaches great importance to sharpening skills from practice, so he provides many effective evaluations and exercises that need practical operation. All these can help creators to develop credible and attractive stories. Since its publication, this book has benefited thousands of readers all over the world, enabling them to realize their artistic imagination and make solid and good movies.

12, Film Art (photocopied version 10).

The author makes a systematic thinking on the concepts of "form" and "style" of movies, and makes a detailed analysis of the elements of movies with detailed movie examples, explaining how the form system (narrative and non-narrative) and the style system (photography, editing, scene scheduling and sound) interact in movies.

This book has a wide range of contents, from the technical explanation of film production to the systematic review of the elements that make up the film, to the demonstration of film analysis methods and the summary of film history, which are simple, thoughtful and comprehensive. The 10 version comprehensively introduces the digital production, distribution and projection of movies.

13, the master shot (Volume III)

The Master's Shot (Volume III) is the latest masterpiece of the Master's Shot series. The author inherits the writing characteristics of this series of works, such as simple explanation and clear illustrations, and sorts out 65,438+000 classic cases for readers from the aspects of lens movement, set design and scene scheduling, so as to achieve the magical effect of making the film stand out.

The first two volumes of "Master's Skill" series focus on story scene design, while "Master's Skill (Volume III)", as an upgraded version of the first two volumes, is more about the restoration and refinement of studio works. Each chapter basically summarizes an important link in the shooting process, such as lens selection, depth scheduling, set design, framing and composition. Readers can choose to read the whole book, or they can choose to take the main lens of the book with them and read it as a technical manual at any time.

14, World Film History (2nd Edition)

This book is the global history of world movies and the most widely used film history course. The book revolves around the following three basic questions: how does the use of film media change with time and what norms have been formed? How does the situation of the film industry affect the use of film media? How did the international trend of film media use and film market emerge? The Outline presents the pulsating mainstream of world movies for more than 100 years, and depicts the rich folds of important historical situations in a subtle way.

The author of this book, Christine Thompson, is an emeritus professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a master's degree in film from the University of Iowa and a doctor's degree in film from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At present, she is studying Liu Bieqian's silent feature film. Another author, David Bordwell, is Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin.

15, "What is a movie?"

Andre bazan has always been regarded as "the film's Aristotle", because Bazin not only laid the foundation of film as an art, but also laid the foundation of film as a discipline. What Is Cinema? The Bible of Movies has always been called the Bible of Movies. It has been a necessary book for film majors all over the world for more than 50 years, and it is also a practical reference book for film criticism writing.

16, "What was I thinking when I was filming?"

This book is the first collection of autobiographical essays by Hirokazu Koreeda, winner of the Palme d 'Or Award at Cannes Film Festival, which lasted for 8 years. In the book, the author reviews his creative career for more than 30 years, tells the legendary stories, origins and ideas behind each classic work, and records the exploration and thinking of movies in each creative period, as well as his views on the world and life. The book not only brings together movie master's philosophy and inspiration, but also tells a director's inspirational journey from filming on credit to winning prizes in major film festivals around the world.

17, editing mode

The book begins with a question-and-answer session, which tells the story of Murch's creative experience in editing the Godfather, Dialogue, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient and other heavyweight films. In these dialogues, Murch's ideas about editing, movies and even the whole art are vividly displayed. Along his creative track, we can see that he and contemporary Coppola,

Lucas, a group of talented young people with beards, how to start from independent production, set up an anti-Hollywood peep show company, and then create such iconic works as Apocalypse Now. The book also talks about "digressions" closely related to creation, such as literature, music, the Book of Changes and dreams. Artists, whether filmmakers, fans or novelists, may be able to draw inferences from one another and achieve mastery.

18, Hollywood genre film

This is a benchmark work in the field of genre research, which has laid its historical and theoretical foundation. Based on formal aesthetics, cultural studies, industrial analysis and semiotics, this book regards film creation as a dynamic process of interaction between the industrial system and the audience, and discusses how genre films respond to the basic cultural conflicts of human beings, express social ideals, and evolve with the changes of the times.

The author focuses on six important types of Hollywood Golden Age Westerns, namely, gangster films, tough guy detective films, nerve comedies, musical films and family melodrama. Through careful text analysis, the complex game among artists, capital and audience is stripped layer by layer, revealing the deep mechanism that specific stories are recognized by the public and repeated or recreated by creators. The classic judgment in the book has been verified in the film history, and it is also enlightening for us to understand today's genre film creation and culture.

Note: The above content is quoted from the official account of Beijing Shangying Yilai Technology "Yimei Shangying Film Study Abroad".