Scene scheduling book

Subtitle: Image Movement Original Name: Film Director: Film Movement

Author: [America] Steven Katz

Translator: Yang Chen

Press: World Book Publishing Company

Publication year: 20 1 1-2

Page count: 329

Pricing: 49.80 yuan

Binding: paperback

ISBN: 97875 10029806 is the second classic film textbook written by the author of the world bestseller The Design of Focal Plane. On the basis of the previous book, this paper further analyzes the skills of scheduling actors and shots with pictures and texts, which is a scene scheduling scheme covering various drama scenes and different photography styles, Sun Tzu's Art of War. The various scheduling cases introduced in the book include scenes with limited space, open space and multiple people gathering. These cases not only closely focus on the behavioral motives of the characters and the dramatic elements of the story, but also have practical operability, giving full consideration to various situations that may occur in the live shooting. When analyzing the case, the author traces back to the classic scheduling style in the studio era, lists the new scheduling techniques in the current live shooting, and analyzes their respective use backgrounds, advantages and disadvantages, so as to help directors, especially beginners, better cultivate the consciousness of judging what is the best scheme in any specific situation.

In-depth interviews with Hollywood scene scheduling professionals, such as directors, artists, photographers and props, are specially set up in the book, and a chapter of "Script Disassembly" is specially added in the new edition to explain the whole planning process of conceiving the scene scheduling scheme. In order to make up for the technical needs, a chapter on digital technology is added to introduce how to use the most advanced digital film technology to complete the scene scheduling design.

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This is not a book just for reading, it needs practice, research and thinking. —— Professor Xie Fei of Beijing Film Academy.

This book provides valuable advice and help for the director's most ingenious and core work-arranging actors and shots. I highly recommend it. -Judith Weston, author of best-selling books "Directing Actors" and "The Intuition of Film Directors"

The illustrations in the book provide a legendary scheduling guide for film shooting and real scene conditions, which greatly enriches this reference manual written with a pen and makes the various scheduling schemes shown in the book put into practice from paper. —— Anizka Zeebek, Professor of Animation and Broadcasting Design, Parsons School of Design, New College University.

To understand the subtleties of film production and the challenges encountered in film photography, the following methods are worth recommending: watching a large number of films repeatedly; Go to a good film school; Read Steven Katz's Design of Focal Plane and Scene Scheduling: Motion of Images. In the interview with this book, Allen Daviau, Ralph singleton and john sayles, three outstanding filmmakers, balanced the operability and practicality of this book with their profound insights. This is an extremely reliable workbook for aspiring young people and successful creators. -John McIntosh, Professor of Computer Art and Aesthetics in school of visual arts, new york University.

As one of the few cautious works, this book appropriately avoids the popular works of market hype, and on the basis of solid skills and methodology, it plots the "route" of scene scheduling. -Scott Billups, filmmaker and author of Digital Movie Making.

Beginners of movies may be able to learn and discuss terms such as "scene scheduling" immediately, but they have no specific concepts about these terms. In this book, Katz points out the most practical point of view to readers. He successfully completed the director's arduous task of arranging and scheduling actors and cameras on the set. Interviews with important directors, production directors and other filmmakers add key teaching examples to this book. -Dan Ochwar, from Millimeter Magazine.

Only a few authors or books can reach the status of "required reading", and Steven Katz's works are one of them. For any aspiring director, this book is an excellent tutorial with clear content, strong operability and full of wisdom. This book is an indispensable reference guide for understanding and applying movie scene scheduling skills. -Sam L. Groge, former president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts, addressed to China readers 1.

Foreword 2

Quote 5

Instructions for use 10

The first part is the process of scene scheduling.

Chapter 1 Scene Scheduling: Director 3

1. 1 viewpoint /5

1.2 dramatic focus /5

1.3 dramatic scope of action /6

1.4 main lens and long lens /6

1.5 Multiple cameras and spare lenses /6

Interview: john sayles /9

Chapter 2 Scene Scheduling: Producer 17

Interview: Ralph singleton /2 1

Part II Scene Arrangement: Studio

Chapter III Basic Arrangements 29

3. 1 scene space /30

3.2 regional scheduling and role-by-role scheduling /3 1

3.3 Arrange actors and cameras /33

Emphasize the theme /33

Emphasize one of a set of topics /34

Shift the audience's attention from one topic to another /35

Scheduling method of connection or guidance /36

3.4 Reverse motion /37

3.5 Reverse Push Lens /37

3.6 Scene and Studio Scheduling /39

Interview: Allen Daviau /42

The fourth chapter confined space scene scheduling 47

4. 1 cars, buses and planes /48

4.2 Supporting equipment for shooting scenes inside the car /49

Case 1: Interior /5 1

Estimated shooting schedule /56

Technical factors /56

Case 2: Interior /59

Estimated shooting schedule /64

Technical factors /64

Case 3: Bus Interior /67

Technical factors /74

Spare lens /74

Case 4/77

Estimated shooting schedule /84

Spare lens /84

Technical factors /84

Case 5/87

Estimated shooting schedule/104

Technical factors/104

Interview: Dustin Smith/106

Chapter 5 Advanced Scene Scheduling in Confined Space 1 1 1

Case 6/ 1 15

Estimated shooting schedule/128

Spare lens/128

Technical factors/129

Case 7/ 13 1

Estimated shooting schedule/138

Case 8/ 14 1

Technical factors/152

Estimated shooting schedule/152

Case 9/ 155

Scheduling mode to arouse * * * discussion/186

Technical factors/186

Shooting plan and spare lens/187

Interview: Harold Michelson/188

Chapter VI Open Space Scene Scheduling 193

Case X/ 197

Shooting style /2 14

Case study /2 14

Case XI/2 17

Technical factors /228

Spare lens /228

Interview: Marco Lin /229

Chapter VII Scene Arrangement of Multi-role Scenes 235

7. 1 performance area /237

Case XII/239

Technical factors /274

Part III Scene Arrangement: Before Shooting

Chapter VIII Visual Script Disassembly 277

8. 1 visual script /278

8.2 Brainstorming /280

Boston /28 1

Deconstruction of the Script: The First Time /286

Script disassembly: the second time /287

Deconstruction of the Script: The Third Time /288

Visualization scheme /290

Estimate candidate shots /292

Final technical script analysis /292

Chapter 9 Digital Film Design 295

9. 1 Digital Film Design /297

9.2 Start work /297

9.3 Digital Storyboard /298

9.4 Dynamic Storyboard /300

9.5 Photo storyboard /302

9.6 Full 3D Visualization Effect /305

9.7 Digital Scene Designer Labor Market /306

9.8 Prefabricated Model /306

9.9 Landscape Generation /307

9. 10 Simplicity and Fashion /3 10

9. 1 1 performance /320

9. 12 planning and accurate visualization /320

9. 13 Overkill /322

Visualization software 323

3D software 323

Landscape generation software 323

Image editing software 324

Editing and composition software 324

3D Interactive Storyboard Case Resources 325

How to Use Interactive Storyboard 325

Keyword 326

Postscript 330