The Director’s Idea: The Path to Great Directing

As a director, you must have a concept, a director’s idea , to shape your approach to the actors, the camera, and the script. With this clear idea your film will be deeper and more effective, and you will be able to differentiate–and therefore make the choice–between competent directing and great directing. Using case studies of famous directors as real-world examples of director’s ideas , the author has provided the theory and the practice to help directors immediately improve their work.