A film director needs a range of skills. They need to know how to prepare a script for direction, how to cast actors, how to work with actors, and the director needs to be able to stage action using a range of blocking techniques; single set up, shot by shot and coverage. This book will give you insight to and an explanation of these skills.
Film Directing: Beat by Beat and Block by Block is a book for those wishing to understand how a film director works as a creative person within a technical and complex environment, while collaborating with, and guiding, a range of talented people; cast and crew.
Eugene Doyen teaches film directing based on an approach which supports and guides actors; making the actor the central aspect of the directing process.