Watching Films With A Directors Eye

This is a short list of things to look for in a film from the book "Film Directing Fundamentals." I strongly recommend this book.

So here are the questions:

• Look for dramatic structure and the narrators voice
• Pick a scene watch it again why did it catch your attention?
• Why is it effective?
• Is it the staging?
• Is it the camera
• Draw a floor plan of the location
• Visualize the geography of location and placement of the camera within that place
• Keep track of where the camera is stationed
• Pay close attention to how the scene is introduced
• Figure out the camera setups
• Look for articulation of narrative beats
• Objective narrator
• Subjective voice
• Transitions
• Entrances
• Art direction
• Fulcrum
• Wants and spine
• Relation to other scenes
• What is the director trying to tell me?