The film director's intuition: script analysis and rehearsal techniques

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Acknowledgements

New readers, returning readers

Part 1: Intuition, ideas, and imagination:

1. Intuition

2. The feeling level

3. Imagination and originality

4. Sources of imagination and intuition

Part 2: Script analysis:

5. Goals of script analysis

6. Subtext and choice

7. Process and result

8. Emotional events

9. Tools of the storyteller

10. Question everything

11. Rehearsal plan

12. Script analysis (Sex, lies and videotape)

13. Script analysis (Clerks)

14. Script analysis (Tender mercies)

15. The whole script: spines, main characters, and what the script is about

16. Observations and adjustments

17. List of verbs and emotional intentions

Part 3: The lost art of rehearsal:

18. Director's authority

19. Rehearsal principles and techniques

20. Scene shaping

21. Rehearsal scenarios

22. Just before the camera rolls

23. Epilogue

Filmography

Bibliography

About the author

Index.