Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation
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Francis Glebas
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- File Size: 26.5 MB
- Book Language: English
- Total Page Count: 359
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Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation
Directing the Story by Francis Glebas is a digital PDF guide to professional storytelling and storyboarding. It is available as an instant download for readers studying live-action film and animation.
The book focuses on how filmmakers guide attention, communicate meaning, organize images, and shape emotional responses. It connects audience perception with practical directing, drawing, composition, editing, and story-structure techniques.
Published by Focal Press, an imprint of Elsevier, this English-language edition contains 359 pages and includes bibliographical references, a bibliography, and an index.
Book Overview
Francis Glebas examines the relationship between what audiences do while watching a film and the choices filmmakers make when creating one. The discussion begins with attention, perception, signs, character identification, prediction, and emotional closure.
The book then develops a practical approach to storyboarding and visual direction. It covers story beats, staging, gesture drawing, character design, framing, selective attention, composition, lenses, screen geography, eyeline matches, time continuity, dramatic irony, and story structures.
Its intended readers include people learning or practicing film direction, animation, storyboarding, visual storytelling, and film production.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- Why audiences watch movies and how filmmakers create narrative engagement.
- The history, function, types, and production process of storyboards.
- Ways to break down scripts into story beats and storyboard scenes.
- Drawing approaches for motion, emotion, clarity, silhouettes, and character design.
- Methods for directing attention through framing, composition, visual hierarchy, and space.
- How clues, signs, continuity, causality, and dramatic irony communicate meaning.
- Story structures, emotional engagement, and the analysis and evolution of the Scheherazade project.
Why Directing the Story Matters
The book addresses the practical systems through which films become clear, meaningful, and emotionally engaging to viewers. Its approach links visual decisions with the audience’s process of reading images, making connections, forming hypotheses, and responding to characters.
For students and practitioners, the volume brings storyboarding, directing, visual design, editing, and narrative analysis into one structured discussion. It is also a useful archival reference for the study of professional storytelling techniques in live action and animation.
Book Details
| Author | Francis Glebas |
|---|---|
| Title | Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Imprint | Focal Press |
| Publication Year | 2009 |
| Copyright | Copyright © 2009, Francis Glebas |
| ISBN | 978-0-240-81076-8 |
| ISBN Format | pbk. : alk. paper |
| Publication Locations | Amsterdam • Boston • Heidelberg • London • New York • Oxford • Paris • San Diego • San Francisco • Singapore • Sydney • Tokyo |
| Publisher Address, USA | 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA |
| Publisher Address, UK | Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 359 |
| Format | |
| File Type | |
| File Size | 26.5 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 27823842 |
| Library of Congress Classification | PN1995.9.P7G448 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 791.4302’3–dc22 |
| Library of Congress Control Number | 2008026270 |
| Contents | 16 chapters, references, bibliography, and index |
| Printed In | China |
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This is a digital download, not a physical book. There is no physical shipping, and access is available after purchase.
The PDF can be opened on desktop computers, mobile devices, tablets, and compatible reading apps. It may also be accessed through appropriate Kindle apps that support PDF files.
FAQ
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Access is available after purchase, with instant download provided as a digital file.
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No. This product is a digital PDF download, so no physical copy is shipped.
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Download Directing the Story for a focused reference on professional storytelling and storyboarding techniques for live-action film and animation.
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