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Master Shots: 100 Advanced Camera Techniques to Get an Expensive Look on Your Low-Budget Movie |  | Author: Christopher Kenworthy
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Category: Book
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Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 2256
Media: Paperback
Pages: 227
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 11 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1932907513
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.534
EAN: 9781932907513
ASIN: 1932907513
Publication Date: January 1, 2009
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Product Description
Master Shots gives filmmakers the techniques they need to execute complex, original shots on any budget. By using powerful master shots and well-executed moves, directors can develop a strong style and stand out from the crowd. Most low-budget movies look low-budget because the director is forced to compromise at the last minute. Master Shots gives you so many powerful techniques that youll be able to respond, even under pressure, and create knock-out shots. Even when the clock is ticking and the light is fading, the techniques in this book can rescue your film and make every shot look like it cost a fortune. Each technique is illustrated with samples from great feature films and computer-generated diagrams for absolute clarity.
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 Great help to visualizing your film February 20, 2009
Jerry Saperstein (Evanston, IL USA)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
For the beginner or occasional filmmaker, this is a great book. Essentially it is an encyclopedia of master shots, a hundred of them. Most are illustrated with stills from various films and with 3D models created in Poser 7.
The author provides details about how the shot is set up, the feeling the shot is intended to convey and pertinent information. Kenworthy deliberately stays away from things like lenses, equipment, lighting and so on.
His point is that the shots can be accomplished with any kind of camera. It is the point of view that matters and the action that establishes the meaning of the shot and advances the story.
Master Shots is definitely an aid to the beginning filmmaker or those who shoot only occasionally and could you a bit of assistance in visualizing how to tell their story.
For a very reasonable cost, you have a hundred classic master shots diagrammed and explained for you. Good deal.
Jerry
A Great Collection of Templates for your Movie Project November 26, 2008
Bryan Newman (St Paul, MN)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I'm impressed with the basic idea behind this book, it is simple, focused, and opens the door to creativity. The author takes a focused look at camera shot solutions pros have used to convey the story to the viewer. It would make brilliant text for an intro film class because it makes you concentrate on how you are turning your written script into visual medium. When I first got it I thought it would be just a bunch of plug in stock shots that you could link together to make a movie, but the author describes each shot and the reasoning behind it so you end up borrowing, adjusting and adding to the examples to get what you need. It definitely does not kill creativity.
The examples are great. Each takes a scene from a well known movie (the Shining, Enemy at the Gate, Children of Men,) then breaks it down into a generic graphics showing camera angles and actions. This helps clarify how and why the director staged the shot in this way. Also each example has a paragraph that explains why this works for the viewer and how camera work adds to the scene.
The book seems well balanced, it covers everything from fights and chases to love scenes. Personally I am not looking to do any action films, so fighting and such was not that important, but the sections on shooting dialog and car shots were invaluable. I read through this book while storyboarding my project and whole scenes fell together. And most importantly, I didn't feel like I was painting by numbers. More like, the template shots planted seeds which grew to be very personalized and perfect for my story.
A great book for anyone new to or a student of film.
Best of Its Kind January 19, 2009
Gil Bettman (Culver City, Ca. United States)
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
I am in awe of this book. And I think I have the chops to be a good judge of its worth. I have directed four feature films, and couple of dozen primetime TV shows and rock videos; taught directing for thirteen years at a leading filmschool (Chapman) and given seminars on "how to direct the camera" in eleven countries on three continents. I have also written my own universally well-reviewed, how-to book on directing - "First Time Director".
Kenworthy has a deep and broad understanding of how to direct the camera. In this book, he analyzes more than hundred different shots - most of them using a moving camera - and he is absolutely, spot-on accurate in describing the dramatic impact - the feel - of each shot. This makes the book as much about story as camera. His analyses are well written and easy to understand. And most important, the visual tools he uses to illustrate how to execute the shots are highly effective - better than I have seen in any how-to book on directing, including my own.
Anybody with a basic understanding of camera and lenses can pick up this book, study it, and start taking giant strides towards becoming a master of visual design for motion pictures. If you want to make movies that like the directors whose films Kenworthy uses to illustrate his points: Kubrick, Spielberg, Lucas and Cuaron, to name a few, this book is a great place to start.
A great buy for any independent filmmaker July 2, 2009
Grant (Ridgewood , NJ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book gives you tons of great camera conventions that only hollywood directors use. But now you can get to know the tricks of the trade with excellent visuals of fight scenes, chase scenes, camera movement for dramatic effect and much more. I would definitely recommend this book to any independent filmmaker because it expands your creativity and visualization skills
Master shots September 13, 2009
Oddi S. Diaz
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book. A few words but a lot of pics and graphics to show the different types of camera angles and creative shots. I love it!
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