Performing Arts : Film

Fascinating documentation of one of the most important film societies in American history more...

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This guide for actors and directors develops a valid method for training performers to act from their core--whether they are cold reading, auditioning, or performing for film or television. This book teaches actors how to achieve and respond to believable and honest emotions before the camera, and it maintains that the key to a successful performance lies in how the actors relate to one another and to the circumstances. Exercises, including script examples, throughout the book give readers an easy resource for practicing the principles outlined. The Art of Film Acting applies a classic stage acting method (Stanislavsky) to the more intimate medium of performing before a camera, teaching readers to experience an emotion rather than to indicate it. more...

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A storyboard is essentially a large comic of a film created at the pre-production stage to help directors and cinematographers visualize scenes and find potential problems before they occur. All filmmakers need storyboards to help plan their scenes, structure their story, work out a schedule and effectively allocate budget. Amateur and student filmmakers planning their first film and facing storyboards for the first time will find this an accessible introduction to a vital subject. They will learn basic drawing techniques such as the use of perspective, light and shade, and depth of field needed to render the human figure in motion. As well as essential components of storyboarding, such as framing, placement of figures and use of camera angles. more...

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Highlighted with over fifty colour illustrations and line drawings, and including case studies, activities and sample exam questions, this book provides every student entering the course with a comprehensive companion to their work. more...

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Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and “invisible men” are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) reveals these hidden interiors of cultural life. Akira Mizuta Lippit produces readings of secret and shadow archives and visual structures or phenomenologies of the inside, charting the materiality of what can and cannot be seen in the radioactive light of the twentieth century. more...

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