Film Directing: Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen

This is a book about all the types of shots, but it has a serious problem. The writer does not explain how the directors use and combine these shots with a narrative and emotional meaning. If you read this book, you will know a lot of positions and angles that a cameraman uses; but you won't know anything about when and why he uses them. Katz doesn't talk about the art of direction and the connection between the script and the camera shots.

If you want to learn the complicated art of the direction you must read other more interesting books, like “Film Directing Fundamentals” by Nicholas Proferes. Also you can analyze an Hitchcock's movie “shot by shot”. Any movie of Hitch is a master class.

Shot by Shot is the world's go-to directing book, now newly updated for a special 25th Anniversary edition! The first edition sold over 250,000 copies, making it one of the bestselling books on film di-recting of all time. Aspiring directors, cinematographers, editors, and producers, many of whom are now working professionals, learned the craft of visual storytelling from Shot by Shot, the most com-plete source for preplanning the look of a movie. The book contains over 800 photos and illustrations, and is by far the most comprehensive look at shot design in print, containing storyboards from movies such as Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, Dead-pool, and Moonrise Kingdom. Also introduced is the concept of A, I, and L patterns as a way to show more sim-plify the hundreds of staging choices facing a director in every scene. Shot by Shot uniquely blends story analysis with compositional strategies, citing examples then il-lustrated with the storyboards used for the actual films. Throughout the book, various visual ap-proaches to short scenes are shown, exposing the directing processes of our most celebrated au-teurs -- including a meticulous, lavishly illustrated analysis of Steven Spielberg's scene design for Empire of the Sun. show less

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