Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know
Product Description
What the industry’s most succcessful writers and directors have in common is that they have mastered the cinematic conventions specific to the medium.
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The title misrepresents the content; the information is limited and over stated. If you don’t already know these conventions from the most basic viewing of films, this book won’t help.
Rating: 2 / 5
there was no unpleasant surprise with my purchase. the book came a day or two later than was promised, but other than that, all was as i expected!!
Rating: 5 / 5
This reads as if it was written by a freshman college student using one source. You know what I mean, when words are used simply to add to the page count, and the information is so repetitive and basic that you can essentially just read the titles of the sections and know what it will say.
So eventually I decided, well, this book may be painful to read, but its still another film book to add to my bookshelf. Problem with that is, it’s long, not tall, meaning it sticks out and looks bad when I put it with other books. So scrap that idea.
I do not recommend this to any student of film. However, if you’d like an awkwardly shaped book to put on your coffee table, and you’re in high school, maybe you’d enjoy this.
Rating: 1 / 5
It is a really good book showing the RULES of story telling.DON’T YOU USE A ROAD MAP WHEN THERE IS SOMEWHERE YOU WANT TO GO? GET THIS ‘ROADMAP’
Rating: 4 / 5
I’m still learning about screenwriting and how to incorporate the many layers of storytelling tools required for a good script. Like her title says, the concepts Van Sijll covers in her excellent book are yet another layer of what screenwriters should know. Unless you have been able to incorporate this into your writing on your own, your writing will improve greatly once you understand how these writing essentials are part of the filmmaking process that begins with the writer and continues with his or her directing, cinematography, and set-design collaborators.
Personal success story: Some writer friends who read a script of mine that I wrote after I studied this book say the script was the best one of mine they had read. Unless you’re one of the lucky “natural” screenwriters, you should understand what Van Sijll is presenting and then figure out how the concepts can make your scripts better.
Rating: 5 / 5