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$The Big Picture: Filmmaking Lessons from a Life on the Set \\ Read$ The Big Picture: Filmmaking Lessons from a Life on the Set ~ Doc ~ X8QSQV1HQJ Th e Big Picture: Filmmaking Lessons from a Life on th e Set By Tom Reilly St. Martin's Griffin. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Paperback. 256 pages. Dimensions: 8.5in. x 5.5in. x 0.7in.Film production veteran Tom Reilly has worked on the sets of critically praised films and commercial blockbusters for more than three decadesincluding seventeen years alongside director Woody Allen. In The Big Picture, he explores the art and the craft of filmmaking from the vantage point of someone actually running the movie set. Using examples unlike any of those in other books on film, Reilly exposes not only the power and the personalities, but the secrets of the pros. He shares the insights he gleaned while working with more than sixty Oscar-winning professionalsfrom Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Vanessa Redgrave to Sydney Pollack, Sven Nykvist, and Barbra Streisand. In these fifty entertaining, illuminating short essays, Reilly invites you to join him on the film set. What is it like to shoot a love scene How do you do a full body burn What is it like to film in the Everglades or in a morgue What is blocking or matching, and how long should a script be How do you decide when to build a set Why is the color palette so critical Is night... READ ONLINE [ 8.31 MB ] Reviews The book is fantastic and great. It normally will not cost an excessive amount of. I am just easily could possibly get a satisfaction of reading a published ebook. -- Edgar Witting This sort of pdf is everything and made me hunting forward and a lot more. It is packed with knowledge and wisdom I am just happy to inform you that this is the greatest ebook i have study within my own existence and might be he very best ebook for actually. -- Celestino Blanda DMCA Notice | Terms.

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