Conceptualising Outstanding Directors' Thought Processes: Guidelines for Teaching Cinema

A focus on camera, sound and editing do not necessarily provide students with an understanding of the actual thought processes of directors, write Yifat Ben-David Kolikant and Elad Fichman. This article seeks to produce a method for teaching students to read films through an emphasis on the conceptual thought process of the director; that is, considering how the choice of certain conventions directly connotes a director's creative ideas.