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What's going to help you write a good film? Well, nothing will ever replace a good story, but some things can help you figure out the most effective way to tell that story. On this page I have listed some resources I think can be of benefit to aspiring screenwriters, as well as to people who already have many drafts behind them: Classic short films on DVD and great/successful scripts that let you make your own film school, script authoring software that makes formatting your final draft a breeze, and screenwriting books that deal with story and structure, as well as relate experiences in the film industry and entertainment business that help a screenwriter learn how to market and sell a screenplay or treatment once it is written.

Directing


Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen

Provides in-depth coverage of production design, storyboarding, spatial connections, editing, scene staging, depth of frame, camera angles, point of view, and the various types of stable compositions and moving camera shots.


The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques

Making Movies
(Sidney Lumet)


The Five C's of Cinematography: Motion Picture Filming Techniques

Camera angles, Continuity, Cutting, Close-ups and Composition.

Covered.


Film Directing, Cinematic Motion: A Workshop for Staging Scenes

This practical guide addresses problems encountered when staging and blocking scenes. Includes discussions of scheduling, staging without dialogue, choreography, sequence shots, and more.


The Visual Story: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV and New Media

Offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, including elements of line, shape, color, space, etc.

 


Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film & Television

Actors Turned Directors: On Eliciting the Best Performance from an Actor and Other Secrets of Successful Directing