The Director's Journey

by Mark W. Travis

Book Overview

As a director, you are in the center of a creative team of actors, writers, designers, producers, cameramen, special effects coordinators, editors and composers. How do you draw all these talented artists together to share a single vision? How do you express the writer's intentions? And how do you keep the actors' performances fresh? Mark W. Travis takes the mystery out of directing. His refreshing approach will enhance and broaden your directing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941188590
• ISBN13: 9780941188593
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A How-to Book on Creative Collaboration

Written in a reader-friendly way, you'll want to work with this writer/director. Travis clearly educates the reader in the art of collaboration and all its essentials for a true creative process. Using both his experiences & his intuition, the writer takes us on an eye-opening expedition into the realms of cinematic cooperation, coordination & collaboration to produce the best possible film & get the most from our fellow-film crew members. How to work WITH the screenwriter, the producer(s), the director, the cinematographer, the creative team, the actors, the editor & the crew, blending all the diverse visions of the filmed story into a cohesive one.

An informative, exceptionally written and insightful work.

In all my years of reviewing text as well as fictional literature this book will take its place with the other top ten books I have in my collection. I have recommended it to both my family, my friends and co-workers. Direct and comprehensive for the novice as well as the professional. Dr. Dan Canterbury