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Summary: The title says it all
Review: If you're expecting, that you will learn how to direct actors or get dramatic an unique performances with this book you're wrong, this book it's about visualizing, how to move the camera, why, continuity styles, storyboarding, etc, It is an excellent tool for the film & videomaker, you can use it for quick reference, if you're shooting a conversation, it explains, how you can do it without breaking the axis.. If you're starting to study film, let Steven Katz, be your teacher, and make your first shorts knowing how to doing them right
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Summary: Steve Katz's Delivers First Digital Feature Film
Review: On May 14th, Steve Katz' ground breaking short film, "Protest" will kick off the first all-digital feature film in history to be released to theaters without cellulouid, and by satellite. Protest is a CFI short subject presented as a dream-like mediation on the plight of the elephant population. Steve Katz' books, Film Directing: Shot by Shot and Film Directing: Cinematic Motion continue to be international best sellers. These books are used by over 200 film schools worldwide.
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Summary: Mixed Review
Review: The main problem with this book is that it suffers from either being too in depth and far beyond a beginners book or at other times is far too rudimentary. That said, its strength is that it is one of the only books on directing that actually takes you through shot composition, different lenses, and the cinematic achievement that can be created by various devices ranging from cranes to simple editing techniques. Overall, I feel that I learned some new things from this book, but at the same time - after having read it cover to cover - it just doesn't strike me as a great reference book... as I had hoped it would be.
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Summary: The book fell apart.
Review: The technical content was okay but the publisher needs to fire its quality control department.
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Summary: Very useful
Review: This book has mostly everything for the aspiring--and perhaps experienced--director. It is filled with storyboards from classic films, along with explanations for your own. There are many ways showing you how to film one scene with several different cameras from different angles. There are definitions for certain view-points and everything else needed for someone who is planning a film. What else can I say, really? Basically, there is no book on film making out there that compares to this. It is definitely the best in this category...don't consider anything else.
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Summary: Great Resource
Review: This book is a great resource on filmmaking. The in-depth analysis of the medium is helpful to aspiring filmmakers and current filmmakers. I bought this book for a college course and have kept it in my private library because I find it useful. It's easy to read and understand, and it's very inetersting. I highly recommend.
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Summary: Katz takes simple concepts and makes them seem confusing
Review: This book really gets you thinking about shot design and blocking, but Katz uses four times as many pages as he should. Katz takes simple concepts and makes them seem confusing.
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Summary: A boring, lifeless book.
Review: This book was going to be required reading for a storyboarding class I'm teaching this fall. It was the book used by the teacher who last taught the class. After reading it, I've switched the required reading to "The Five C's of Cinematography."
This book lists shot type after shot type, page after page, but doesn't get into the reasoning of choosing one shot over another. As far as the how, where, when, and why goes, this book ignores the "why."
This book wastes many pages in the beginning telling the reader that storyboards are important. Of course they are! That's why I bought the freakin' book! This space could have been used to explain the difference between camera lenses and focal qualities, which are referred to constantly but never properly defined.
What I was expecting from this book was a good overview of the movie planning process. Instead, it is a mind-numbingly boring list of the different shots that could be used in film. Also, the quality of the author's storyboards that are used to illustrate the book do not fill me with optimism about the effectiveness of the book.
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Summary: What a swell book!
Review: This is an excellent book on classical film directing. The storyboards it includes from North By Northwest and The Battleship Potemkin, among others, are inspirational. It breaks down the classical shooting style in a fashion that is simple and clean...maybe at times a little too simple. Nonetheless, I'll keep it in my library forever!
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Summary: YAAWWWNN!!
Review: This reference is worth the money. I learned everything I needed to know about setting up shots for my first two films from this book. Diagrams, pictures, instructions. Wonderful!
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