Aesthetics of Film Production: A Hands-On Guide to Authorial Voice

Exploring aesthetic decision-making skills through active, critical screenplay interpretation, this book investigates the ways filmmakers translate a screenplay into a powerful film. Guiding readers through the formal choices a filmmaker makes, this book encompasses all aspects of the filmmaking process, including directing, acting, cinematography, lighting, production design, sound, and editing.Author Joyce illustrates how to apply aesthetics in a way encouraging creative thinking and stylistic choices, while emphasizing the importance of active decision-making to foreground the screenplay in the filmmaking process. Focusing on how films should be stylistically crafted from beat-to-beat the book provides tangible foothholds to assist filmmakers with the aesthetic decision-making process, empowering filmmakers to create films to resonate emotionally and intellectually.