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. ( )

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