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Cinematography for Directors, 2nd Edition

A Guide for Creative Collaboration
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Cinematography for Directors, 2nd Edition is an essential handbook for directors and aspiring filmmakers focusing on achieving the best visuals through a strong collaborative relationship with their cinematographer. It includes interviews with ASC cinematographers and covers technical, aesthetic, and historical topics such as selecting a cinematographer, discussing the script together, choosing visual styles, colour palettes, camera formats, lenses, camera movements, and postproduction processes including digital intermediate (DI).
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The newly updated Cinematography for Directors is the essential handbook for directors and aspiring filmmakers who want to get the best visuals for their movie while establishing a collaborative relationship with their cinematographer.

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The newly updated Cinematography for Directors is the essential handbook for directors and aspiring filmmakers who want to get the best visuals for their movie while establishing a collaborative relationship with their cinematographer.

Through interviews with current ASC cinematographers, and a balance between technical, aesthetic, and historical content, this book guides the director into a powerful collaboration with their closest on-set ally. Topics include selecting a cinematographer, collectively discussing the script, choosing an appropriate visual style for a film, colour palette, film and digital formats, lenses, camera movement, genres, and postproduction processesβ€”including the digital intermediate (DI). Interwoven are quotes from working ASC cinematographers.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781615932740

Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Michael Wiese Productions

Illustration: 50 illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 255.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 300

About the Author

Jacqueline Frost has been teaching the language of motion pictures--production, history, and cinematography--for thirty years at various universities. Currently a full professor at California State University, Fullerton, she is also an adjunct professor at Farleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ. In 2016 Jacqueline was invited to Camerimage to serve on the jury of the Student Etudes competition. She has taught workshops at Hunter College, Intermedia Arts Department, and the CSU Summer Arts program, where she created a digital-cinematography workshop (2012) with Robert Primes, Amy Vincent, and ASC. She has taught Cinematography for Directors at the UCLA extension program, and for three lucky summers taught documentary production in Florence, Italy, as part of the CSUF study-abroad program. For over a decade Jacqueline programed the CSUF Collegiate Showcase at the Newport Beach Film Festival. Additionally, Jacqueline has been the cinematographer or producer on numerous short films, independent features, and documentaries that have screened at festivals around the world. She is a partner and freelance cinematographer at Corazon Pictures. AUTHOR RESIDENCE Jacqueline Frost lives in the New York metropolitan and Los Angeles areas.

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