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The information in those books is presented in such a way that you come out with coherent understanding of how to set up certain types of scenes. they go into great detail about staging and blocking and how to arrange actors and scene elements for various effects. The books mentioned above have those recipes. To make an analogy, it's like a book that lists 100 great ingredients with very brief notes as to how each tastes and what kind of dish it can be used in, but has no recipes in it. it IS a good brief introduction to '100 cinematic conventions every filmmaker should know'.

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And then to waste more space, each chapter pointlessly lists the credits for each movie mentioned in that chapter - what's the point of that? I wouldn't mind it if it seemed the actual descriptions of the cinematic conventions themselves - the meat and potatoes of the book - were more fully presented first, but it seems the credits listing eats up valuable space that should have been devoted to more fully developed discussion of those conventions. Each page only features a few brief paragraphs and feels like it could have been developed a lot more. There's a lot of blank white space, and what few words there are suffer from a stiffly formulaic presentation loaded with pointless repetition. The layout of these books is similar to the 16:9 HD aspect ratio, and the books are designed to be visually appealing, but seem to be very sparse on information. It seems to be part of a series of books published by Michael Wiese Productions all made in the 'widescreen' format, I think trying to cash in on the HD craze.

I can't say I completely recommend it, at least not until after reading more informative books about directing and cinematic composition such as Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to ScreenĪnd Film Directing: Cinematic Motion, both by Steven D Katz and The Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition by Gustavo Mercado. Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know by Jennifer Van Sijll