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Setting up Your Shots J Vineyard
This book is the one-step encyclopedia of visual storytelling techniques for directors, storyboard artists, film students, home video enthusiasts or anyone who simply wants to learn more about how movies are made. Written in clear, non-technical …
Story: Style, Structure, Substance, And The Principles Of Screenwriting Robert McKee
For more than 15 years, Robert McKee's students have been taking Hollywood's top honors. His Story Seminar is the world's ultimate seminar for screenwriters, filmmakers, and novelists. Now, Robert McKee's Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and …
Guerilla Film Makers Handbook 3rd Ed S Archer
A-Z for 660 pages on low-budget film making. From copyright law to casting, stunts to cash sources to distribution schemes, and a DIY budget breakdown to help in planning. Includes hundreds of interviews with film industry insiders, case studies …
One of the most esteemed filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) was also one of the most enigmatic. He broke into the film scene at the age of 26 with the ambitious, independently produced Killer's Kiss and within a few years was …
Producing Charlotte Worthington
Basics Film-Making: Producing, the first in the new film-making series from AVA, helps emerging producers understand and manage the production process from development to post-production and distribution. What is the role of the producer? What …
100 All Time Favorite Movies Taschen
This book combines all of Angelika Taschen's recommendations for Paris hotels, shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars into one volume, ensuring visitors a wealth of ideas and a guarantee that their Parisian sojourn will never have a dull moment. …
This second book in the Basics Film-Making series teaches the key elements of screenwriting, examining areas such as dialogue, sound, setting, shots, and structure.
Until very recently, the western world has viewed Japanese cinema through a very narrow prism. For years, Westerners interested in Japanese film have had to content themselves with the collected works of Akira Kurosawa, a spotty sampling of films …
How do we even describe the alienated beauty of Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, Donnie Brasco, Don Juan DeMarco, Captain Jack Sparrow and Sweeney Todd, apart from the prodigious gift of Johnny Depp? How do we even …
Basic Animation Stop Motion Barry Purves
Basics Animation: Stop-motion Animation teaches the skills required to develop as a creative stop-motion animator or articulated puppet maker. It explores how all the elements of film-making - camera work, design, colour, lighting, editing, music …
Basics Film Making: The Language of Film John Marland, Robert Edgar Hunt & Steven Rawle
Basics Film-Making: The Language of Film explores the means by which film communicates meaning to its audience. It discusses the stories they tell, the sign-systems they deploy, the interpretive contexts we are invited to place them in, and the …
Automated Lighting 2e Rihard Cadena
'Automated Lighting-Technology, Applications, and Design' is a comprehensive text covering everything you will need to know as a working or aspiring lighting professional about automated lighting fixtures, systems, how they are used and design …
Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide: From The Silent Era Trough 1965 Leonard Maltin
From the author of the bestselling annual Movie Guide comes this ultimate guide for fans of classic films both familiar and obscure. The Classic Movie Guide covers thousands of films, from the silent era to the 1960s, including The Birth of a …
Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey—dainty, immaculate—is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961…
101 Things I Learnes in Film School Neil Landau & Matthew Federick
How to set a scene? What's the best camera angle? How does the new technology interact with scenes? And how does one even get the financing to make a movie? These basic questions and much more are all covered in this exquisite packaged book on …
Hitchcock Piece by Piece L Bouzereau & H OConnell
The first-ever illustrated biography of the master of the thriller, 'Hitchcock, Piece by Piece 'coincides with the 30th anniversary of his death and the 50th anniversary of the release of 'Psycho.' Many of the photographs, from Hitchcock's own …
The Making of Avatar Jody Ducan & Lisa Fizpatrick
In 1995, James Cameron began work on a story that would, more than a decade later, evolve into 'Avatar,' the blockbuster of 2009 and no less than the movie event of the decade. Opening to international critical acclaim (including nine Academy …
The Making of the Empire Strikes Back J.W. Rinzler
For Star Wars fans looking for a way to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the release of The Empire Strikes Back, this book will seem heaven sent. Rinzler follows up his magnificent The Making of Star Wars (2007) with this in-depth account …
Alfred Hitchcock: Masters of Cinema Series Bill Krohn
Cahiers du cinéma started with a monthly magazine of almost mythical status. Founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Lo Duca and Léonide Keigel, Cahiers du cinéma changed the course of cinema for ever when it created the auteur …
Clint Eastwood: MAsters of Cinema Series Bernard Benoliel
Clint Eastwood (USA, b. 1930) is a veteran among the grand masters of contemporary American cinema, whose rise through the system took a highly unusual form. After playing iconic roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns of the 1960s, he …
David Lynch: Masters of Cinema Series Thierry Jousse
David Lynch (USA, b. 1946) is perhaps the best known of all cult directors, whose Mulholland Drive marks cinema's arrival to the 21st century. His career began more than 30 years ago, with the groundbreaking, mystifying Eraserhead (1977). With …
Francis Ford Coppola: Masters of Cinema Series Stephane Delorme
Francis Ford Coppola (USA, b. 1939) is the oldest of the generation of 'movie brats', including Scorsese and Spielberg, who breathed new life into the Hollywood of the 1970s. He revived the glory of the studio age with the legendary Godfather …
Martin Scorsese: Masters of Cinema Thomas Sotinel
Martin Scorsese (USA, b. 1942) is among the most prolific of American directors, having made more than 25 features in a 40-year career that has seen him garner all the highest honours the film world can bestow. Since the success of Taxi Driver in …
Pedro Almodovar: Masters of Cinema Series Thomas Sotinel
Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, b. 1951) single-handedly represents the revival of Spanish cinema as part of the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrileña in the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridled imagination of this provocative director, …
Stanley Kubrick: Masters of Cinema Series Bill Krohn
Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1928–99) was a master who took the art of filmmaking further than any other contemporary director, a creative perfectionist whose work now fascinates new generations. He started out as a photographer before moving into film …
Steven Spielberg Masters of Cinema Series Clelia Cohen
Steven Spielberg (USA, b. 1946) was the boy wonder of the new Hollywood of the 1970s. Taking Orson Welles as his model, he made Duel aged only 25, following it up with a string of successes that brought him the adulation of the studios. As a fan …
Tim Burton Masters of Cinema Series Aurelien Ferenczi
Tim Burton (USA, b. 1958) is the youngest of Hollywood's most successful directors. He has the knack of making films with a very broad appeal, taking the silliness out of the representation of children, while remaining in touch with the child …
Woody Allen Masters of Cinema Series Florence Colombani
Woody Allen (USA, b. 1935) has been a major comic director since the 1970s. Writer, director and actor, his self-portrayal as a neurotic, intellectual, sex-obsessed, Jewish New Yorker seeking comfort in psychoanalysis brought him immense popular …
Antonioni's Blow Up Philippe Garner & David Alan Mellor
Michelangelo Antonionis 1966 film 'Blow-Up' is a masterfully constructed and paced exploration of the enigmas that challenge our interpretations of both the moving and the still image. Photography plays a key role at the very core of the film, …
Korda Britain's Movie Mogul Charles Drazin
The producer behind such celebrated films as The Four Feathers and The Third Man is one of the most colourful and important figures in the history of the British cinema. This gripping biography tells how with extraordinary ambition, enterprise …