BEHIND THE SCREEN STUDY GUIDE

If we could see beyond the borders of movie and television screens-if the camera pulled back to reveal the director just outside the frame; the roofless set on a soundstage where tons of equipment are tended by dozens of technicians; the film lab and the cutting room or control room with its banks of video monitors; even the offices where the deals are set, the budgets approved, and the posters designed-we would find a complex, collaborative business that manufactures a product-films and television shows- in an industrial system different from, but no less elaborate than, those that bring us cars, airplanes, and corn flakes.


The Illusion of Motion
Recording Image and Sound
Editing Image and Sound
Special Effects
Performing
Production Design
Costume Design
Makeup
Hair and Wigs
Directing
Producing
The Script
Music
Promotion
Licensed Merchandise
The Moving Image in the Theater
The Moving Image in the Home