To dramatize a story using moving images, a director must have a full understanding of the meaning and emotional effect of all the various types of shots and cu

To dramatize a story using moving images, a director must have a full understanding of the meaning and emotional effect of all the various types of shots and cu

What the industry's most succcessful writers and directors have in common is that they have mastered the cinematic conventions specific to the medium.

This book presents a new, story-based approach to cinematic coverage and storytelling in film and video. It breaks from the conventional idea that shots are the

Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to d