The craft of filmmaking
Filmmaking
The craft behind the screen, discipline by discipline.
Disciplines
- Directing Turning a script into performances, pictures and rhythm.
- Cinematography Light, lens and movement: how the image is made.
- Screenwriting Structure, character and the architecture of a scene.
- Editing Where the film is found: rhythm, continuity and meaning in the cut.
- Sound Dialogue, Foley, music and the uses of silence.
- Acting Performance, preparation and playing to the lens.
- Production Design Building the world: sets, props, palette and period.
- VFX Compositing, simulation and the invisible digital work.
- Color Grading The final look: contrast, palette and mood.
In production
The first stories in this section are being written. Have one to share?