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Production

Robert Klenner

Robert Klenner is the Acting Head of Directing at The Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Directing Screen Performances

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Book chapter

...Directing the shoot is about being in the moment—engaging with people and physical settings, and making countless decisions. It is challenging, stressful, and exhilarating. You may find that once you start production you enter a kind...

Art Direction

Michael Ryan

Dr Sean Michael Ryan is a Lecturer in Biblical Studies, Heythrop College, University of London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Melissa Lenos

Melissa Lenos is Assistant Professor of English, Donnelly College, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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An Introduction to Film Analysis : Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film

Continuum, 2012

Book chapter

...Art direction or production design constructs the visual and aural environment of a film. The choice of location or the design of the set is an active agent in creating meaning, as are lighting, color, and sound.Location and set design...

Camera Work

Michael Ryan

Dr Sean Michael Ryan is a Lecturer in Biblical Studies, Heythrop College, University of London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Melissa Lenos

Melissa Lenos is Assistant Professor of English, Donnelly College, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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An Introduction to Film Analysis : Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film

Continuum, 2012

Book chapter

...When you watch a film, you see it through the camera’s eye, so where the camera is placed and how it moves are crucial constituents of film meaning.Shots vary enormously in meaning. Close-ups often convey a sense of intimacy...

Technicolor Adventures — Interiors

Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff

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Magic Hour : A Life in Movies

Faber & Faber, 1996

Book chapter

...When a film unit has finished the main shooting on a set, any odd, unimportant bits left to shoot — a close-up of a cigarette smudged in an ashtray, a letter — all these dreary minutiae are left to be done later, by a very small crew...

Technicolor Goes to War

Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff

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Magic Hour : A Life in Movies

Faber & Faber, 1996

Book chapter

...In the summer of 1939 I was in Sicily working contentedly on a commercial for Cadbury’s milk chocolate. It seemed a long way from the machinations of Hitler and the inexorable advent of war.One evening after work I was having a drink...

Technicolor Adventures — Exteriors

Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff

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Magic Hour : A Life in Movies

Faber & Faber, 1996

Book chapter

...British Technicolor was born in a stable. One casual day as I passed the old stables at Denham I saw crates being unpacked and was introduced to half a dozen Americans with wonderful hats who had that resolute pilgrim look: George Cave...

La Belle France – Again

Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff

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Magic Hour : A Life in Movies

Faber & Faber, 1996

Book chapter

...After the rigours of Hathaway I needed to get away from it all and what better holiday than to make another documentary with my preposterous old friend Jean Bernard in Paris.Jean was short, jovial, with a large middle section and a tiny...

Flynn

Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff

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Magic Hour : A Life in Movies

Faber & Faber, 1996

Book chapter

...In the summer of 1953 I was working on Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae on location in Cornwall; its star was the inimitable Errol Flynn. While we were shooting, the assistant director rushed on to the set to say that Flynn...

Crossing the Rubicon

Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff

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Magic Hour : A Life in Movies

Faber & Faber, 1996

Book chapter

...The Informer was the last big silent film to be made in England. When it was finished, my career as a Vichy waterboy ended too. I now stepped on to the lowest rung of the camera department ladder as a number boy. I knew nothing about...

Expectations Fulfilled

Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff

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Magic Hour : A Life in Movies

Faber & Faber, 1996

Book chapter

...My career as a director had not, so far, been an awesome success: two low-budget B-pictures. The press had not been kind. Their verdict on my new career was ‘Why should Cardiff (flatteringly labelled “Britain’s best cameraman”) leave his...