Darkest Secrets of Film Directing

Darkest Secrets of Film Directing
Author: Tom Marcoux
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-05-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780615813028

Directing movies promises vast rewards--but not for free. Traps and pitfalls await even the most talented, most skilled and hard-working director. "Darkest Secrets of Film Directing" by Tom Marcoux offers priceless knowledge. Knowledge of those traps lying ahead. More, he describes effective countermeasures with which to handle each one. Problems on set come in many forms. Directors need to spot them in advance and fix them as each arises. When the crew turns on you, a name actor goes through a breakdown mid-shoot, or the producer starts squeezing your budget--knowing all these and the rest of the 21 Darkest Secrets can happen is half the battle. The other half is what countermeasures to use in the face of disaster. Find the techniques you need here in this book. Learn how to not only manage events and people, but come through it with your film complete! . . . . "'Darkest Secrets of Film Directing' is a great course on the art and craft of film directing. It's especially helpful that Tom Marcoux reveals some important pitfalls you need to avoid." - Danek S. Kaus, Produced Screenwriter . . . . About Tom Marcoux as a Film Director: "When casting, film director Tom Marcoux's acting and improvisation skills shine as he works with actors." - Daniel Buhlman, film director and actor . . . . "Tom treats cast and crew with great respect. He listens to ideas, allows a lot of give and take. Many directors remain defensive, even touchy about their own ideas. Tom always seems more interested in seeing what others can bring to a project. His support helped me express the truth in my scenes. " - David MacDowell Blue, actor, screenwriter and author of The Annotated Carmilla

Make Your Own Damn Movie!

Make Your Own Damn Movie!
Author: Lloyd Kaufman
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1429976136

Lloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High, and Tromeo and Juliet, offers a guide to movie-making unlike any other available anywhere. In 25 years, Kaufman, along with partner Michael Herz, has built Troma Studios up from a company struggling to find its voice in a field crowded with competitors to its current--and legendary--status as a lone survivor, a bastion of true cinematic independence, and the world's greatest collection of camp on film. As entertaining and funny as it is informative and insightful, Make Your Own Damn Movie! places Kaufman's radically low-budget, independent-studio style of filmaking directly in the reader's hands. Thus we learn how to: develop and write a knock-out screenplay; raise funding; find locations and cast actors; hire a crew; obtain equipment, permits, and music rights (all for little or no money); make incredible special effects for $0.79 each; charm, schmooze, and network while on the film-festival circuit; and, finally, make a bad actor act so bad it's actually good. From scriptwriting and directing to financing and marketing, this book is brimming with utterly off-the-wall, decidedly maverick, yet consistently proven advice on how to fully develop one's idea for an independent film.

Darkest Secrets of Charisma

Darkest Secrets of Charisma
Author: Tom Marcoux
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-04-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780615786575

What do you want? A new job? More money? Better relationships? Imagine you have hidden charisma that could help you easily get cooperation from people in business and personal situations. What makes this book different is: it's about making the good things inside you come out. Instead, other books focus on the outside--artificially changing clothing, body language, etc. Here Marcoux reveals how you can tap into your natural gifts and tendencies to radiate Three Types of Charisma. Discover how to influence people with your words. In many cases charisma consists of learnable skills. Movie star good looks may remain outside what is possible, but creating an impact with how we listen, how we speak, how we react to those around us--that anyone can achieve. The result? An individual charisma others feel when you go to a job interview, when you give a public talk, when you do a task at work. Even introverts can find a way to use their strengths, forging success based on cooperation and superior performance. The secret lies mostly in a simple truism: "To influence people, minimize resistance." Learn to do that, then watch your dreams and desires come true! * "A fresh approach so that you can have great influence with people in business and personal situations. Tom Marcoux introduces you to three forms of charisma (that other books miss). Marcoux's methods help you use your personal gifts to shine in any situation. You do not need a movie star appearance to gain cooperation and get what you want! Marcoux even shows how introverts can take their natural tendencies and make warm connections that gain results. Get this book. You'll enjoy your new power and new opportunities. - Dr. JoAnn Dahlkoetter, - Dr. JoAnn Dahlkoetter, Author of "Sports Psychology Coaching for Your Performing Edge" * "Whatever you want in life, radiating charisma can smooth the way. Unfortunately, many of us have fallen prey to what Tom Marcoux calls the lies about charisma. One of the lies he debunks is: Charismatic people always feel comfortable before and during an important event, such as public speaking, networking or some other social event. This book shows how you can feel discomfort but still come across as confident and charismatic. The secrets include ways to radiate all three forms of charisma that Marcoux identifies: Warm Trust Charisma, Natural Charm Charisma and Magnetic Charisma. This book reveals how to access one's natural gifts to build warm connections. Marcoux shows you how to get out of your own way and radiate natural charm that other people find pleasing and warm. This book will help you inspire people to support you in fulfilling your dreams." -- Danek S. Kaus, Author of Instant Charisma: How to Program Yourself to Have that Certain Magic

Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors

Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors
Author: Jerry Roberts
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 863
Release: 2009-06-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0810863782

From live productions of the 1950s like Requiem for a Heavyweight to big budget mini-series like Band of Brothers, long-form television programs have been helmed by some of the most creative and accomplished names in directing. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors brings attention to the directors of these productions, citing every director of stand alone long-form television programs: made for TV movies, movie-length pilots, mini-series, and feature-length anthology programs, as well as drama, comedy, and musical specials of more than 60 minutes. Each of the nearly 2,000 entries provides a brief career sketch of the director, his or her notable works, awards, and a filmography. Many entries also provide brief discussions of key shows, movies, and other productions. Appendixes include Emmy Awards, DGA Awards, and other accolades, as well as a list of anthology programs. A much-needed reference that celebrates these often-neglected artists, Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of the medium.

Moviemakers' Master Class

Moviemakers' Master Class
Author: Laurent Tirard
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2002-10-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780571211029

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Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos, Fourth Edition

Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos, Fourth Edition
Author: Alan Rosenthal
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2007-06-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0809387727

As Alan Rosenthal states in the preface to this new edition of his acclaimed resource for filmmakers, Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos is “a book about storytelling—how to tell great and moving stories about fascinating people, whether they be villains or heroes.” In response to technological advances and the growth of the documentary hybrid in the past five years, Rosenthal reconsiders how one approaches documentary filmmaking in the twenty-first century. Simply and clearly, he explains how to tackle day-to-day problems, from initial concept through distribution. He demonstrates his ideas throughout the book with examples from key filmmakers’ work. New aspects of this fourth edition include a vital new chapter titled "Making Your First Film," and a considerable enlargement of the section for producers, "Staying Alive," which includes an extensive discussion of financing, marketing, festivals, and distribution. This new edition offers a revised chapter on nonlinear editing, more examples of precise and exacting proposals, and the addition of a complex budget example with explanation of the budgeting process. Discussion of documentary hybrids, with suggestions for mastering changes and challenges, has also been expanded, while the “Family Films” chapter includes updated information that addresses rapid expansion in this genre.

Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick
Author: Lloyd Michaels
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0252075757

For a director who has made only four feature films over three decades, Terrence Malick has sustained an extraordinary critical reputation as one of America’s most original and independent filmmakers. In this book, Lloyd Michaels analyzes each of Malick’s four features in depth, emphasizing both repetitive formal techniques such as voiceover and long lens cinematography as well as recurrent themes drawn from the director’s academic training in modern philosophy and American literature. Michaels explores Malick’s synthesis of the romance of mythic American experience and the aesthetics of European art film. He performs close cinematic analysis of paradigmatic moments in Malick’s films: the billboard sequence in Badlands, the opening credits in Days of Heaven, the philosophical colloquies between Witt and Welsh in The Thin Red Line, and the epilogue in The New World. This richly detailed study also includes the only two published interviews with Malick, both in 1975 following the release of his first feature film.

Dark Carnival

Dark Carnival
Author: David J. Skal
Publisher: Doubleday
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1995
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

One of the most original and unsettling filmmakers of all time, Browning is also one of the most enigmatic directors who ever worked in Hollywood. Illustrated throughout with rare photos, Dark Carnival is both an artful and shocking portrait of a singular film pioneer and an illuminating study of the evolution of horror, essential to an understanding of our continuing fascination with the macabre.

Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret

Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret
Author: Hunter Vaughan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231544154

In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse; its final product, less tangible; and Hollywood has adopted public-relations strategies that portray it as environmentally conscious. In Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret, Hunter Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective, arguing that how we make and consume films has serious ecological consequences. Bringing together environmental humanities, science communication, and social ethics, Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is a pathbreaking consideration of the film industry’s environmental impact that examines how our cultural prioritization of spectacle has distracted us from its material consequences and natural-resource use. Vaughan examines the environmental effects of filmmaking from Hollywood classics to the digital era, considering how popular screen media shapes and reflects our understanding of the natural world. He recounts the production histories of major blockbusters—Gone with the Wind, Singin’ in the Rain, Twister, and Avatar—situating them in the contexts of the development of the film industry, popular environmentalism, and the proliferation of digital technologies. Emphasizing the materiality of media, Vaughan interweaves details of the hidden environmental consequences of specific filmmaking practices, from water use to server farms, within a larger critical portrait of social perceptions and valuations of the natural world.