ABSTRACT

Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of 4-color images from the movies you love, this book is the last one you will need to understand the artistic and technical considerations of making a genre film. Author Danny Draven walks you through the aesthetic, narrative, and camera techniques necessary to understand the basic formula that genre adheres to, and then shows you how to create an original work within that context.

Draven will show you a technique or narrative structure from a popular movie, reveals the craftsmanship required to achieve it, then tells you how and when it should or shouldn't be used. Interviews from the Hollywood directors and cinematographers using these techniques are included, as well as a companion site with video examples of the techniques and concepts within the book.

chapter |116 pages

The Horror Genre

chapter |8 pages

The Scary Dolly Zoom

chapter |10 pages

The Ghost Reveal

chapter |10 pages

The Weapon POV

chapter |2 pages

The Victim's Eye

chapter |6 pages

The Body Split

chapter |4 pages

Silhouette Reveal

chapter |8 pages

The Gross out

chapter |8 pages

The Jump Scare

chapter |6 pages

Reflection Scares

chapter |4 pages

The Monster Trap

chapter |2 pages

The Weapon Shadow

chapter |4 pages

Jaws of Death

chapter |10 pages

The Body Hole

chapter |8 pages

Danger at the Door

chapter |4 pages

Lurking from Above

chapter |4 pages

The Voyeur

chapter |6 pages

The Monster Inside

chapter |42 pages

The Comedy Genre

chapter |4 pages

The Seduction Shot

chapter |4 pages

The Lustful Gaze

chapter |4 pages

The Floating Camera

chapter |4 pages

Slow and Sexy Body Reveal

chapter |4 pages

The Surreal 360 Kiss

chapter |2 pages

Split Screen

chapter |4 pages

The Imagined Self

chapter |2 pages

The Marriage Transition

chapter |4 pages

Dual Scenes Sequence

chapter |4 pages

Multiple Dates 360

chapter |46 pages

The Sci-Fi Genre

chapter |8 pages

The Surprise Attack

chapter |8 pages

Face Off

chapter |8 pages

Man vs. Alien

chapter |4 pages

Man vs. Nature

chapter |4 pages

Bullet Time

chapter |4 pages

The Abduction Shot

chapter |4 pages

The Creature Inside

chapter |4 pages

The Eye Reflection

chapter |44 pages

The Thriller Genre

chapter |2 pages

The Eavesdropper Shot

chapter |4 pages

The Unexpected Jump

chapter |4 pages

The Car Pursuit

chapter |4 pages

Back from the Dead

chapter |4 pages

Under Surveillance

chapter |4 pages

The Urgent Call

chapter |4 pages

Panic 360 Shot

chapter |4 pages

Almost Captured

chapter |4 pages

Danger in a Reflection

chapter |2 pages

The Floating Corpse