Cinematic Motion has helped directors create a personal camera style and master complex staging challenges for over a decade. In response to the opportunities offered by digital technology, this second edition adds essential chapters on digital visualization and script breakdown.
"Cinematic Motion is invaluable help for the director's trickiest and most central job: blocking the actors to the camera. I recommend it highly."
-Judith Weston, Author, Directing Actors and The Film Director's Intuition
"One of a handful of scrupulous tomes on the subject, Cinematic Motion gracefully sidesteps the quicksand of marketing hype and plots a course on the solid ground of craft and methodology."
-Scott Billups, Filmmaker and Author, Digital Moviemaking-2nd Edition
"There are few authors or books that reach 'must read' status.
The works of Steven Katz have achieved this appellation. Cinematic Motion is a remarkable tutorial for any aspiring or working director. Clear, practical, and wise, the book is an essential guide to understanding and implementing staging for the motion picture medium."
-Sam L Grogg, Ph.D., Dean, AFI Conservatory
S.D. Katz uses extensive illustrations to explain how to create extended sequence shots, elaborate moving camera choreography, and tracking shots with multiple story points. Interviews with top Hollywood craftspeople demonstrate how to bring sophisticated ideas to life. Readers will be able to follow links to the MWP website and interact with the author's original storyboards, built in 3D with the latest storyboard software.
S.D. Katz is an award-winning filmmaker and writer, and the author of Shot by Shot, the now classic text on cinematic style and technique.
