Moving Images, Understanding Media

Chapter 1 Motion Picture Language 27

You can start with some adjectives as you begin to describe fi lms, but

try to move on to more complete and satisfying descriptions of the motion

pictures that you see.

Motion Picture Language in Action

Now it is time to think about developing your own style and creating your own

tone. In the moviemaking exercises with this chapter, you will work on visualizing

and executing short projects. To do this, you will use the most valuable tools

that fi lmmakers use to prepare for fi lming: shot lists and storyboards.

Figure 1-36 Storyboard sequence by artist and designer Saul Bass for

Alfred Hitchcock’s fi lm Psycho. (Courtesy Paramount/Photofest).

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