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  title info:
    title: Live cinema and its techniques
  name:
    name part: Coppola, Francis Ford
    name part: 1939-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Keenly aware that advancements in digital tools have literally revolutionized every technological aspect of cinema over the last twenty-five years, Francis Ford Coppola is convinced that this same transformation will profoundly alter the way films are conceived and directed, bringing changes as momentous as those when moviemaking shifted from the silent era to 'talkies.' Already such a prototype exists in sports, where advanced digital technology and multiple cameras all filming at once have produced live sporting events of extraordinary sophistication. But the time is not far off, Live Cinema and Its Techniques demonstrates, when a director or a collaborative team of filmmakers working across the internet will create 'live' movies that will be sent instantly via satellite for viewing throughout the world. Yet the creative demands posed by airing live sporting contests pale in contrast with the ambitions of 'cinematic auteurs,' who are inspired by great directors like Sergei Eisenstein, Max Ophuls or Alfred Hitchcock. As daunting as the challenge is, the process of integrating the highest artistic standards of previous generations into the medium of 'live cinema' can, Coppola explains, be achieved. Tapping into his own encyclopedic knowledge of film history, Coppola threads his vision of this burgeoning cinematic medium with autobiographical and historical vignettes gleaned from the past, recalling his own boyhood obsession with film and his early fascination with the 'Golden Age of Television.' Especially exciting is the exhilaration and drama that results from retraining actors and using a multitude of cameras to create a film that has the in-the-moment energy of a live event. Having already tried out this new medium with 'proof-of-concept workshops,' Coppola has created an invaluable guide for students and teachers alike. Filled with discussions of how to rehearse actors, how to choose scenery and location, and how to overcome theatrical, as well as technical, ob…
  table of contents: Preface: Why this book -- Personal introduction -- Proof-of-concept workshops -- A short history of film and television -- The actors, acting, and rehearsal -- Equipment and technical specifications -- Scenery and location -- The shame of things to come: Madison, Wisconsin -- One from the heart: its lessons -- Rip Van Winkle -- The question of style in the cinema -- The stumble-throughs, technical rehearsals, and dress rehearsals -- Marks and other smaller unresolved problems -- Obstacles and other thoughts on live cinema no matter what they may be -- Equipment--now and in the near future -- Afterword: Why am I doing this? -- Appendix: Journal notes during OCCC live cinema production: May/June 2015 -- Glossary.
  note: Francis Ford Coppola.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    topic: Production and direction
  classification: PN1995.9.P7 C62 2017
  classification: 791.4302/3
  identifier: 9781631493669
  identifier: 1631493663
  identifier: 2017031176
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170913
    record change date: 20180214132803.0
    record identifier: in00003903647