Book / 2009
Title | The big picture : filmmaking lessons from a life on the set |
Item type | Book |
Author(s) | Reilly, Tom |
Edition | 1st ed |
Imprint | New York Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2009 |
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Language | English |
URL | Link to original record |
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Physical description | xi, 239 p. ; 22 cm. |
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2009Publisher:
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's PressSubject headings:
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245 14 The big picture :|bfilmmaking lessons from a life on the
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260 New York :|bThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,|c2009.
300 xi, 239 p. ;|c22 cm.
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Learn the vocabulary of film -- Learn the language of the
set -- Pick your ten best shots -- What is a shot, anyway?
-- If it's not in the shot, it doesn't matter -- Stories
don't have to be linear : consider creative ways to warp
time -- Don't leave money on the editing room floor : size
matters -- Don't underestimate the power of a single line
-- Move the walls, not the trucks : building a set gives
you total control -- Know your way around the marketplace
as well as the palace -- Great cinematographers are worth
their weight in gold -- Seal the deal with a great
operator -- Shoot on a low floor -- Shoot in flat light --
--Unless the sun plays a role in the film -- The color
palette is critical -- Move into your car -- The strip
board is the Rosetta Stone of filmmaking -- What should be
in your back pocket when you show up on set -- Face the
realities of the budget : even fifty million won't seem
like enough -- Fifty-three shooting days--now what? : how
to schedule a movie -- Shoot a short day -- Blocking is
overlooked and undervalued -- The background action : how
to keep it real and why to get it right -- Matching for
continuity : why it's critical -- Working between the
sheets : the only thing "hot" is the lights --The wisdom
of the unrehearsed scene -- The actors don't always have
to be in frame -- Consider stealing some shots -- A film
is a work in progress -- Expensive toys aren't always
worth the money -- Don't use a flamethrower when a match
will do -- Forget about the monitor -- Move the camera :
they invented the dolly for a reason -- Then let it stand
still : virtues of the static camera -- The absolute
brilliance of the single master shot -- Assume nothing --
Night work : know when the suffering is worth it -- Earth,
wind, and rain : you can't ignore the fundamental elements
-- Fire and brimstone : full-body burns and the impossible
shot -- The set has a chemistry : big egos, big money, big
art -- Magic hour, magic moments -- But it's not all
autographs and sunglasses -- "Poor man's process" :
consider ways to go "cheap" -- Sweat the small stuff--
routinely -- Filmmaking is always about both the art and
the money -- Or is it? : The auteur filmmaker versus the
gun for hire -- If you're not in a union, you probably
won't get to work on a feature film -- Hire the best crew
: the teamsters matter -- Always have a nice lunch.
506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF.
520 Film production veteran Tom Reilly has worked on motion
picture sets for more than three decades. Here, he
explores the art and the craft of filmmaking from the
vantage point of someone actually running the movie set.
Using examples unlike those in other books on film, Reilly
exposes not only the power and the personalities, but the
secrets of the pros. He shares the insights he gleaned
while working with more than sixty Oscar-winning
professionals--from Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro,
and Vanessa Redgrave to Sydney Pollack, Sven Nykvist, and
Barbra Streisand. In these fifty entertaining,
illuminating short essays, Reilly answers such questions
as: What is it like to shoot a love scene? How do you do a
full body burn? What is it like to film in the Everglades
or in a morgue? How do you decide when to build a set? And
many more.--From publisher description.
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650 0 Motion pictures|xProduction and direction.
650 0 Cinematography.
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