Fight Direction for Stage and Screen

Hobbs has directed the fight & battle scenes of numerous acclaimed films, TV & theater work, incl. 9 years as Fight Director at the Royal Nat. Theatre. Here, he has revised his Techniques of the Stage FightÓ to incorporate his expertise in this field. Offers guidelines for the preparation of fight scenes in all forms of media, with special focus on the stage & with screen combat discussed separately. The challenge is how to produce the effect of reality but to use only that level of simulated violence that the play requires. Shows how to make a fight scene an integral party of the play. Chapters: analysis & construction, movement & shapes, fight orchestration, safety, basic movements, battles, his own fight notation system & much more. Illustrations.Hobbs, William is the author of 'Fight Direction for Stage and Screen', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756797249 and ISBN 0756797241.