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Directing On Camera
A Checklist of Video and Film Technique
by Harris Watts
Directing On Camera concentrates on single-camera producing, directing
and editing. Each of the six sections - Plan, Shoot for Editing, Edit, Interviews, and Shoot for
Viewers - guides you through a
number of key thoughts and stages for making a programme on
location.
Plan shows you
how to prepare a programme, starting with the basic question:
What is a good programme? Shoot
for Editing emphasises that
programmes are made in the cutting room and explains how to
organise and collect the material you need for a successful
outcome. Edit gives lots of pointers on how to make cuts work and
how to rescue cuts that don’t. The Interviews section
covers ways of asking questions as well as shooting techniques
and Shoot for Viewers discusses how our
eyes perceive and process pictures and how this should
influence our programme-making.
Directing On Camera is organised in a unique way. All the points and
topics start with easy-to-remember headlines that also form the
index. The book can claim to be the leading short, digestible
introduction to single-camera programme-making. The book makes
an ideal companion to On Camera.
Directing On Camera
by Harris Watts
95 pages
40 b/w illustrations
5 sections
ISBN 0950 7582 2 1
Price £9.99
‘This book should be handed out to
all film students and, possibly to all film directors to keep
beside them at all times. It is thorough, concise, well laid
out and, surprisingly for a handbook, it’s a good
read!’
John Schlesinger Director Midnight Cowboy,
Billy Liar, Darling, Marathon Man, Far from the Madding Crowd,
Sunday Bloody Sunday, A Kind of Loving and An Englishman Abroad,
etc.
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