Basic Betacam Camerawork offers a complete introduction to both the analogue and digital beta camera formats: Betacam, Digital Beta, Betacam SX and DV & DVCAM. Step-by-step instructions are given covering everything from pre-recording checklists, …
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Basic Betacam Camerawork offers a complete introduction to both the analogue and digital beta camera formats: Betacam, Digital Beta, Betacam SX and DV & DVCAM. Step-by-step instructions are given covering everything from pre-recording checklists, …
The short film is a unique narrative art form that, while lending itself to experimentation, requires tremendous discipline in following traditional filmic considerations. This book takes the student and novice screenwriter through the …
Make-Up, Hair and Costume for Film and Television
An introductory guide for students learning professional make-up, hairdressing and wardrobe skills and front of camera' professionals needing an understanding of the techniques. Written by an experienced professional, this manual offers a step-by …
The Independent Film & Videomaker's Guide
The most comprehensive and useful book ever created for filmmakers seeking both independence and success in the marketplace, this guide is loaded with insider tips on idea development, writing a mission statement, marketing and pitching a …
TV Technical Operations: An Introduction
TV Technical Operations is an introduction for new entrants to the broadcast industry and is designed to prepare them for working in mainstream television by discussing essential techniques, technologies and work attitudes. The author explores:. …
High end digital cinematography can truly challenge the film camera in many of the technical, artistic and emotional aspects of what we think of as 'cinematography'. This book is a guide for practising and aspiring cinematographers and DOPs to …
For over 30 years, Gerald Millerson's various books have been the foundation texts for thousands of students and professionals studying television production. Translated into Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, French and German, these titles …
What Are You Laughing At?: How to Write Funny Screenplays, Stories, and More
At last. A how-to book by someone who actually knows how to. — Larry Gelbart
The Snowflake Man: A Biography of Wilson A. Bentley
The Snowflake Man is a biography of "Snowflake Bentley", the farmer from Jericho, Vermont, who pioneered the technique of photographing snowflakes and who then went on to take over 5000 photomicrographs of snowflakes, ice, dew, and frost. …
The Complete DVD Book: Designing, Producing, and Marketing Your Independent Film on DVD
Learn from this comprehensive book, a soup-to-nuts approach to releasing your independent film on DVD. From package design to marketing to authoring to menu architecture to promotion to publicity to penetrating retailiers and even negotiating the …
The Edcf Guide to Digital Cinema Production
professional introduction to the end-to-end process of digital filmmaking! The EDCF Guide to Digital Cinema Production sheds light on the ongoing and confusing transition from analog to digital technology in film production. In addition to a …
TV Commercials: How to Make Them: Or, How Big Is the Boat?
Understanding how commercials are made is the key to doing it right. This descriptive book is a step-by-step guide on the mechanics of creating a commercial from a production perspective. Making commercials on all types of budgets is addressed. …
Satellite Television: Analogue and Digital Reception Techniques
Satellite television is part of the lives of millions of television viewers worldwide and its influence is set to increase significantly with the launch of digital satellite television services. This comprehensive reference book, written by the …
Screen Adaptation: A Scriptwriting Handbook
Screen Adaptation: A Scriptwriting Handbook, 2nd ed. examines the challenge screenwriters face when adapting novels, plays, and short stories for the screen. Thoroughly updated to include new exercises and example from current films, this book …
Now fully updated by Des Lyver to reflect the latest advances, the second edition of Basics of Video Production is a primer for anyone wishing to learn about video production. It describes the principles and processes involved in obtaining …
French Postcards: An Album of Vintage Erotica
Long before pin-ups, "Playboy," or the Internet, enterprising Parisians at the turn of the 20th-century turned the relatively new invention of the camera toward the female nude. Artfully posed with classical architecture or in flirtatious …
Writing the Action Adventure Film: The Moment of Truth
In a successful action adventure script, there are more than just hot pursuits and hotheaded slugfests. This book investigates the screenwriting principles that define the content and style of the most popular film genre.
The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques
Acclaimed director Weston offers a deeply creative exploration on how to access and stimulate the filmmaker's most precious assets: instincts, imagination, and intuition.
Focal Easy Guide to Cakewalk Sonar: For New Users and Professionals
This color-illustrated guide is an ideal starting point for anyone using Cakewalk's popular Sonar software for the first time, particularly those who are switching over from alternative music production software. The author draws on his many …
Art Direction for Film and Video
Written by an author with over 30 years of working experience, this book takes a practical, thorough look at the duties and skills of art directors and production designers. It teaches readers how to analyze a script, develop concepts that meet …
The Five C's of Cinematography: Motion Picture Filming Techniques
The Five C's of Cinematography is one of the three most important books on cinematic technique ever published — American Cinematographer Mr. Mascelli provides the attentive reader with the equivalent of a complete course in filmmaking. — New York …
The MPEG Handbook: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4
complete, professional 'bible' on all aspects of audio and video compression using MPEG technology, including the MPEG-4 standard and, in this second edition, H-264. The clarity of explanation and depth of technical detail combine to make this …
The Budget Book for Film and Television
This guidebook is intended to help both the novice and the experienced producer to create and fine-tune their budgets. Based on the top budgeting software packages, Movie Magic and EP Budgeting, this book takes the reader through each line item …
Directing Feature Films: The Creative Collaborarion Between Director, Writers, and Actors
Learn how to read a script, find its core, determine your vision, communicate with writers, actors, designers, cinematographers, editors, composers, and all the members of your creative team in order to insure that your vision reaches the screen.
Cinematography: Theory and Practice: Image Making for Cinematographers, Directors, and Videographers
Lavishly produced and illustrated, Cinematography covers the entire range of the profession. The book is not just a comprehensive guide to current professional practice; it goes beyond to explain the theory behind the practice, so you understand …
Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking: Practical Techniques for the Guerilla Filmmaker
Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking, an ideal book for the rapidly growing number of low-budget filmmakers, provides how-to information on the day-to-day techniques of actual low-budget production. Containing construction details describing how to …
Real-Time 3D Character Animation with Visual C++ with CDROM
Do you have some experience and a reasonable knowledge of C++ and want to write your own computer games? Have you ever looked at a PC or Playstation (R) game with characters running and leaping through an exciting landscape and wondered how it …
Film Directing Cinematic Motion: A Workshop for Staging Scenes
The book uses extensive illustrations to explain how to create extended sequence shots, elaborate moving camera choreography, and tracking shots with multiple story points.
The Insider's Guide to Film Finance
Financing an independent feature film production is a highly complex process. This book demystifies the legal and commercial implications of a film from start to finish. It provides a detailed survey of each of the processes and players involved, …
Bksts Illustrated Dictionary of Moving Image Technology
The fourth edition of the BKSTS dictionary provides clear and concise explanations of the terminology and acronyms encountered in the broadcasting and moving image industries. Convergence of these industries means that those practising within …