ÊA Quick Guide to Film DirectingÊ provides the reader with a concise and comprehensive overview of this creative and exciting occupation. Written in a fast-paced easy-to-understand fashion the book addresses such topics as what film direction is; the history of the profession; how to become a director; the creative and practical duties and challenges of a film director in the three stages of making a movie (preproduction production and postproduction); working with actors; working with the members of the technical crew (cinematographers editors production designers etc.); the director's support team (assistant director production manager and so on); and the business of being a film director. It also offers a brief look at some of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of the cinema.