Overview

Exploring aesthetic decision-making skills through active, critical interpretation of the screenplay, this book investigates the ways filmmakers translate a screenplay into a powerful film. Guiding the reader through the formal choices a filmmaker makes, this book encompasses all aspects of the filmmaking process, including directing, acting, cinematography, lighting, production design, sound, and editing. Author Joyce illustrates how to apply aesthetics in a way that encourages creative thinking and stylistic choices, while emphasizing the importance of active decision-making to foreground the screenplay in the filmmaking process. Focusing on how films should be crafted stylistically from beat to beat, the book provides tangible footholds to assist filmmakers with the aesthetic decision-making process, empowering filmmakers to create films to resonate emotionally and intellectually. Ideal for students of filmmaking and aspiring filmmakers looking to train their gut and hone their creative and aesthetic decision-making in the filmmaking process. Additional online screenplay samples show how one singular story can be told with different emphasis and narrative perspectives.

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Author:   James B. Joyce (Montana State University - School of Film and Photography)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780367638320

ISBN 10:   0367638320
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   02 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface; Chapter 1: Aesthetics; Chapter 2: Respecting the Audience; Chapter 3: Story and Character ; Chapter 4: Critical Script Analysis for Technical and Aesthetic Decision Making; Chapter 5: Training Your Gut; Chapter 6: Developing an Evolving Aesthetic; Chapter 7: Engaging and Surprising Characters; Chapter 8: Applying Active Characters; Chapter 9: What’s Your Point (Of View); Chapter 10: Synthesis; Chapter 11: Post-Production Begins in Pre-Production; Chapter 12: Cinematography without a Camera; Chapter 13: Understanding the Importance of Diegesis in Sound Design; Chapter 14: The Long Listen… And Other Editing Structures; Chapter 15: The Director’s Responsibility to the Actor; Chapter 16: Final Footholds: Your Call to Action; Appendix A: Character Analysis Sheet; Appendix B: Questions to Train Your Gut; Appendix C: Sample Marked-Up Script; Appendix D: Sample-Implied Narrator Perspectives; Index

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James B. Joyce is an Associate Professor at Cleveland State University, covering foundational production courses through senior capstone productions with a philosophy of emphasizing a synthetic relationship between content and craft. Currently, James is in preproduction for two short films and is writing his second feature-length screenplay.

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