Genre Filmmaking ─ A Visual Guide to Shots and Style

Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of 4-color images from the movies you love, this book is the last one you will need to understand the artistic and technical considerations of making a genre film. Author Danny Draven walks you through the aesthetic, narrative, and camera techniques necessary to understand the basic formula that genre adheres to, and then shows you how to create an original work within that context.

Draven will show you a technique or narrative structure from a popular movie, reveals the craftsmanship required to achieve it, then tells you how and when it should or shouldn’t be used. Interviews from the Hollywood directors and cinematographers using these techniques are included, as well as a companion site with video examples of the techniques and concepts within the book.

• Visual inspiration and mastery of techniques are folded into one in this highly illustrative book demonstrating the various visual and narrative considerations that need to be taken into account when working within a specific genre of film
  
• Learn how your camera moves impact the emotions and expectations of the audience with the use of techniques such as dolly zooms, ghost? reveals, and transitionals, while also learning how story and character elements inform each genre
  
• The book is laced with interviews of well-known directors and producers from each of the genres covered, and a companion site is included with video examples of the concepts provided in the book

Danny Draven is an award-winning director and producer of genre films and a member of the Producers Guild of America. He works in Hollywood and holds a B.A. degree from Emerson College where he studied film production. Draven's films have been released worldwide on home video and TV. This is his third book.