Film Making

Basics Film-Making: Directing Fiction

Dr. Robert Edgar-Hunt

Basics Film-Making: Directing Fiction introduces the essential aspects of the directorial process, focusing on the requirements of short films while also drawing on classic examples from the world of feature films. It looks at the balancing act of art and business, offering helpful guidelines and basic principles rather than instructions.

Divided into the three key stages of the film-making process; pre-production, production and post-production; the book provides students with a framework to begin directing their own productions.

The chapters are interspersed with case studies investigating the working practices of leading professionals such as Robert Rodriguez and Mike Leigh. The title also includes an interview with Mark Herman, director of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Little Voice and Brassed Off.

Key Features

• Covers the entire process of directing a piece of film: pre-production, production and post-production.
• Includes illustrative examples from contemporary films, shorts and student work.
• Presented in a visually stimulating style, designed to appeal to students of the creative arts.

Readership: Intermediate

• Our Basics books provide readers with an in-depth exploration of each of the topics introduced in the Fundamentals titles. These books offer both a theoretical and practical approach, supported by examples and exercises.
• Individual titles can form the basis of specific modules, while the series as a whole functions as a comprehensive reference tool and can be called upon at any stage of a student’s education.

978 2 940411 00 9

$29.95 srp

184 pages
200 colour images
230mm x 160mm
Paperback with flaps

Autumn 2009