>>Sorry, a Postscript: Why would anybody actually want NOT to learn or know about, say, f stops or lighting or direction? Aren't all of these interesting, too?<< Ok guys..now I gotta add my 2 bits.... Sure, there's the old addage "those that can, do, those that can't, teach" But I'm sure that's not entirely true. I must agree with our Canadian friend here though. How can you possibly empart a well-rounded instruction in film (even if it is limited to theory) if you ignore some of the basic tennants of the film making process? ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]