Peter Markham Knihy

Focusing on the essential relationship between Director and Screenplay, this book outlines twenty-two key elements that are vital for directors to grasp before delving into other aspects of filmmaking. It offers a structured approach to understanding storytelling and script interpretation, providing invaluable insights for those in the directing profession.

Focusing on the filmmaker's intention and methodology, this book delves into how fiction is crafted and presented on screen, emphasizing the design elements of each frame as a means of engaging the audience. With accessible language and numerous film stills, it serves as a vital resource for both film students and industry professionals, offering insights into the practical aesthetics that shape cinematic storytelling.

The Art of the The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen explores the filmmaker's intention and method, their creation and capture of the fiction on the screen, and their formulation of the elements of the frame as a designed address to the audience. Positing 'practical aesthetics' as a resource of visual communication central to cinematic art, this book examines the concepts fundamental to the selective processes of the filmmaker and offers the reader highly informed textual analyses of specific films to explain the how and why of cinematic decision-making.After general consideration of language and cinema, Peter Markham sets out categories essential to the reader in their understanding of the filmmaker's dramatic narrative, elements before the lens, screen language, the shot, camera, editing, sound and music. Furthermore, Markham provides insight into how a comparison of the film with its screenplay can reveal the evolution of the filmmaker's storytelling strategies.This book also includes case studies of scenes and sequences from three films by contemporary Hereditary (Ari Aster), Moonlight (Barry Jenkins), and Nomadland (Chloe Zhao). Screenshots are used to illustrate the concepts articulated in the carefully constructed text.This book is intended for the student of filmmaking, its practitioners, students and scholars of film studies and film theory, for those in media studies and arts programs, and for lovers of movies.