Dallas Public Library

The film director's intuition, script analysis and rehearsal techniques, Judith Weston

eng

Filmography: pages 335-340Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-342) and index

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The film director's intuition

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Judith Weston

script analysis and rehearsal techniques

Based on the author's experience of presenting directing and acting workshops around the world for over 10 years, this book is a creative exploration on how to access and stimulate the filmmaker's most precious assets - instinct, imagination and intuition"Judith Weston reveals the secrets that can keep an imagination alive and free a director's intuition, so everyone on set can function at full creativity. Her new book is invaluable for film and television directors, as well as for actors, writers, designers, producers, and executives."--Back cover

Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- New readers, returning readers -- Part 1: Intuition, ideas, and imagination: -- 1. Intuition -- 2. The feeling level -- 3. Imagination and originality -- 4. Sources of imagination and intuition -- -- Part 2: Script analysis: -- 5. Goals of script analysis -- 6. Subtext and choice -- 7. Process and result -- 8. Emotional events -- 9. Tools of the storyteller -- 10. Question everything -- 11. Rehearsal plan -- 12. Script analysis (Sex, lies and videotape) -- 13. Script analysis (Clerks) -- 14. Script analysis (Tender mercies) -- 15. The whole script: spines, main characters, and what the script is about -- 16. Observations and adjustments -- 17. List of verbs and emotional intentions -- -- Part 3: The lost art of rehearsal: -- 18. Director's authority -- 19. Rehearsal principles and techniques -- 20. Scene shaping -- 21. Rehearsal scenarios -- 22. Just before the camera rolls -- 23. Epilogue -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Index