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This is How You Make a Movie

This is How You Make a Movie

By Tim Grierson

Hardback | ISBN 9781786275585

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Learn movie-making techniques through the movies you know and love with This Is How You Make a Movie!

Using key scenes from some of the best-loved movies of all time, Tim Grierson explores everything from cinematography to the secrets of talking to camera. Deep focus is explored through Citizen Kane, forced perspective through Elf, and slow motion through Reservoir Dogs. Examples from blockbusters (Wonder Woman) to Oscar-winners (Rocky), silent-era gems (Intolerance) to recent art-house treasures (American Honey), give readers a glimpse of cinema's breadth and potential.

A fascinating read for movie buffs who want to understand what goes on behind the camera, and above all an essential read for students and beginners in the industry.

With sections on acting, directing, lighting and camera, writing and editing, this book includes all the technical help you need to get your movie career off the ground.

Including these directors, and more:

Steven Spielberg

Martin Scorsese

Mike Leigh

Sofia Coppola

Spike Lee

Barry Jenkins

Francis Ford Coppola

Steve McQueen

Tim Miller

Stanley Kubrick

Alfred Hitchcock

Barry Jenkins

Charlie Chaplin

Roman Polanski

Andrea Arnold

Tim Burton

Kenneth Branagh

Including these movies, and more:

Atonement

If Beale Street Could Talk

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Deadpool

The Godfather

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Star Wars

Reservoir Dogs

The Shining

Birdman

Psycho

Goodfellas

Casino Royale

Inception

Free Solo

King Kong

Gone with the Wind

Reservoir Dogs

Rocky

Apocalypse Now

Moonlight

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BOOK DETAILS

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786275585
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Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages: 192
Width (mm): 171
Height (mm): 228
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