Cinematic Storytelling: A Comprehensive Guide for Directors and Cinematographers Thomas Robotham 9780367531423

* Provides a new approach to cinematic storytelling in a comprehensive manner by foregrounding the techniques that can be used in the script to screen process.
* This book fills a gap by taking a unique approach to visual storytelling, considering context-creation at all steps of the process for aspiring filmmakers, cinematographers and directors at undergraduate level within filmmaking courses.
* Prioritizes illustrating the creative process of taking the story from script to screen in a practical and comprehensive way, placing storytelling at the forefront of the filmmaking process and ensuring camera-usage decisions are made in a way the best serves the story being told.

Thomas Robotham teaches screenwriting, filmmaking, and cinematography. He is currently Affiliated Faculty at Emerson College, and Director of Photography (DP) in the International Cinematographers Guild. He holds a patent in light-emitting diode (LED) lighting for film and video. Thomas has also worked as a Creative Director (advertising) and as a fine artist (sculpture). www.robotham.com

'A refreshing revision of the filmmaker's visualization process that describes the essential creative choices for directors and cinematographers alike when determining coverage and cinematic storytelling.'
Charlie Egleston, Filmmaker and Professor of Film Production, Fanshawe College

'Cinematic Storytelling is an exceptional book on directing and cinematography for it provides the tools on how to tell cinematic stories visually, in ways that will reach an audience. A close study of this text and consistent practice of these principles will shift any amateur or student filmmaker into the professional realm. We may know how to "read" a movie, but directors and cinematographers need the tools to understand how to do it.'

Kurt Lancaster, Professor and Program Lead, Creative Media and Film, Northern Arizona University. Author of Basic Cinematography and DSLR Cinema.