Anatomy of a Scene is an original television series which has aired regularly on Sundance Channel since 2001. Each 30-minute episode "dissects the art of filmmaking" (as a tagline for the series notes) of a scene from a specific film, often one previously showcased at a Sundance Film Festival. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Owned by Showtime Networks, sundance channel is devoted to airing indepedent films, documentaries, short films, and much more. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2001. ... Filmmaking is the process of making a film. ... A tagline is a variant of an advertising slogan typically used in movie marketing, commercials, and websites. ... The first section of this article is about the abstract notion of scene in arts and scene as in a cultural space. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks amongst the top five events of its type in the world. ...

An episode examines the scene from multiple perspectives, such as production design, costume design, cinematography, the storyboards, the writing, the music, acting, and the directing. Interviews with the cast and crew are interspersed with snippets from the film Production designer is a term used in the movie industry to refer to the person with the responsibility for designing the sets and costumes and choosing locations, and thus for creating the overall visual appearance of a film. ... Costume design is the design of the appearance of the characters in a performance. ... A film reel unwinding Although literally it means writing the movement, the term cinematography is generally understood as the art and process of recording visual images for the cinema (with a camera) and later developing those images in a laboratory. ... Storyboards are illustrations displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing an animated or live-action film. ...

Episodes of the show are often included on the DVD release of the films they are about. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

Films "dissected"

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External links

• Official website
• Sundance Making Scene, a February 2001 Cable World trade magazine article from the FindArticles website
• Anatomy of a Scene at the Internet Movie Database