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| Contributors | |
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| Using This Book | |
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| A Lack of Trust: The Five Mistakes | |
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| Introduction: A Nasty Bit of Laundry | |
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| Mistake #1: Directed by Anonymous | |
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| Get 'Em While You've Got 'Em, Before You Get "Em | |
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| Homework… Do It | |
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| They're On Board | |
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| On the Day | |
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| Failure Is OK | |
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| Summary | |
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| Mistake #2: Know-It-Alls Rule | |
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| Summary | |
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| Mistake #3: Filibusterers | |
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| Summary | |
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| Mistake #4: Too Many Notes | |
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| Cut and Validate | |
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| How Not to Watch a Take | |
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| Privacy Please | |
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| Technology Sidebar | |
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| Keep Them in the Loop | |
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| The Bull in the Arena | |
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| Make It Fun | |
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| One at a Time | |
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| Don't Let Things Slide | |
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| Make It Their Problem | |
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| Summary | |
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| Mistake #5: Enamel Grinders | |
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| Tales from the Trenches | |
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| Summary | |
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| Action and Suspense: The Five Strategies | |
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| Strategy #1: Not Just a Pretty Chase | |
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| What Is Action? | |
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| African Action | |
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| Directing Actors in Action | |
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| Summary | |
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| Strategy #2: Who, Where, and When | |
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| Point of View | |
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| ID and Locate | |
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| Orientation | |
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| Jeopardy | |
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| Countdown | |
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| Summary | |
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| Strategy #3: Quick Techniques and Safety | |
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| Pointless Masters | |
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| Few Actions | |
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| Exception | |
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| Observe the Three-Take Rule | |
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| Overlap Actions | |
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| Scissor Time | |
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| Not That Fast | |
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| Change-Up | |
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| No Immutable Rules | |
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| Booby Traps | |
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| Summary | |
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| Strategy #4: See It Before You Shoot It | |
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| Storyboarding | |
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| What's the Point? | |
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| Dialogue Scenes | |
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| Overdrawing | |
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| Losing the Flow | |
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| Slaves to the Boards | |
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| Can't Afford No Stinkin' Storyboards? | |
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| Coverage | |
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| Summary | |
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| Strategy #5: Mystery, Surprise, Suspense | |
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| Mild Conflict, Mild Interest | |
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| They're Coming! Get Out! | |
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| Setups, Builds, and Switches | |
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| Another Cat Skinner | |
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| Mystery vs. Surprise vs. Suspense | |
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| Summary | |
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| Preparing the Scene: The Director's Checklist | |
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| Before Rehearsal? | |
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| The Checklist | |
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| The Scene Related to the Film | |
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| What happened before this scene? | |
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| What does it add? | |
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| What's different at the end? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Architecture of the Scene | |
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| Whose point of view? | |
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| Where are the beats? | |
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| Physicalizing | |
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| Characters Think Ahead | |
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| Use the Camera to Show a Character's Thought Process | |
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| Where is the Tipping Point? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Characters Enter the Scene | |
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| What do they want? | |
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| We Always Have a Goal | |
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| No Goal, No Acting | |
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| Every Character Has His or Her Own Goal | |
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| One Beat, One Goal | |
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| What do they expect? | |
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| What's at stake for each character? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Interacting Characters | |
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| What's stopping them? | |
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| How do they get what they want? | |
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| Only Verbs… Active Verbs! | |
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| How does a character regard the other? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Index | |