Aesthetics of film production : A hands-on guide to authorial voice / James B. Joyce

Includes index

"Exploring aesthetic decision-making skills through active, critical interpretation of the screenplay, this book investigates the ways filmmakers can take a screenplay and translate that into a powerful film. Guiding the reader through the formal choices a filmmaker has to make, this book encompasses all aspects of the filmmaking process, including directing, acting, cinematography, lighting, production design, sound, and editing. Author Joyce illustrates how to apply aesthetics in a way that encourages creative thinking and stylistic choices, whilst emphasizing the importance of active decision making to foreground the screenplay in the filmmaking process. Focusing on how films should be crafted stylistically from beat-to-beat, the book provides tangible footholds to assist filmmakers with the aesthetic decision-making process, empowering filmmakers to create films to resonate emotionally and intellectually. Ideal for students of filmmaking and aspiring filmmakers looking to train their gut and hone their creative and aesthetic decision-making in the filmmaking process. With an additional online screenplay samples which showing how one singular story can be told with different emphasis and narrative perspectives".