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The Art of the Filmmaker: The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen

The Art of the Filmmaker: The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen

Explores the filmmaker's intention and method, their creation and capture of the fiction on the screen as a designed address to the audience.

2023

Stories

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How I Came to Write My New Filmmaking Book

The prompts, the intention, the realization

4h ago

Book title: The Zen of the Director

4h ago

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Cinema: The “Journey of the Audience”

Academic exercise or invaluable filmmaking resource?

Oct 4

An audience watching a movie.

Oct 4

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One South to Another

My burger with Robert Johnson

Aug 20

Headstock of a Stella Guitar

Aug 20

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Cinema: The Power of Inaction in a Movie

The “Duck Mantra” and how it plays out

Aug 12

A man and young woman look up to the sky.

Aug 12

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Doubt

My lifetime companion (maybe)

Jul 30

Doubt

Jul 30

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The Beach Boys and the Boy from South London

To get around or not to get around, that is the question

Jul 6

The Beach Boys band members posing with a blue background.

Jul 6

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Is There a Right Way to Shoot and Edit a Scene in Cinema?

Key factors to consider in cinematic storytelling

Jul 3

Casually dressed group of young people walking in a casino.

Jul 3

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My Three Lessons from Director John Schlesinger

Screen and audience. A director’s practicality. A master’s diligence.

May 6

A man (Alan Bates as Guy Burgess) walks under an umbrella.

May 6

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The Gift of the International Class

To the student — and the teacher…

Apr 11

A globe suspended over the palm of a hand

Apr 11

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Cinema: Refreshing the Viewer’s Visual Palate

The articulation of the mutable screen

Mar 21

View of an arm through a keyhole

Mar 21

Peter Markham

Peter Markham

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Author, consultant, former AFI Con Directing Head. Sundance Collab Instructor. Book: THE ZEN OF THE DIRECTOR (SPB) https://linktr.ee/filmdirectingclass

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