Are you an associate producer who needs to juggle projects and vendors while keeping on top of the latest trends and formats? Or an independent filmmaker who can’t afford a misstep in the crucial postproduction phase? Take a step back and get a clear overview of the process. This guide will show you how to…
Over the decades, distribution has remained the most elusive aspect of filmmaking, but the Web provides filmmakers with another option for distribution, exhibition and broadcast. While other media streaming technologies are available, QuickTime remains the most popular option for its versatility, excellent quality and ease of use. This book aims to show filmmakers and videographers…
Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed “Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects”. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This…
Software packages are complex. Software books don’t need to be. Simplify your life with “The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro”! This concise, full-color book lives up to its name by paring down the software to its essentials. You learn the key features and essential workflow to get you up and running in no…
The art of professional video editing Although technology is rapidly evolving, it is still complicated to edit video. This unique book not only teaches you the art of professional editing, it also gives you authentic professional experience. You′ll be guided through a typical industry production workflow; you′ll have access to raw footage, including alternate takes…
This new edition of the filmmaker’s bible has been completely updated to reflect changes in every aspect of the moviemaking process. The comments speak for themselves: “This book is a must. It is a straightforward, insightful, and articulate account of what it takes to make a successful feature film.”–Ridley Scott, director of Alien, Blade Runner,…
Wiese’s book sets itself apart in terms of balancing the creative aspects of filmmaking (idea development, brainstorming exercises) with the business aspects (financing, dealmaking).communicating to the beginning filmmaker how to realistically get a film made. Today’s independent filmmaker needs to understand the business aspects of filmmaking if he or she expects to have their work…
In Rebel Without a Crew, screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film, El Mariachi, on a shoestring budget. This is both one man’s remarkable story and an essential guide for anyone who has a celluloid story to tell and the dreams…
The single most comprehensive, honest, information-packed book ever written on how to make a low budget movie. This amazing book explains EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. From lighting to camera equipment, from festivals to sales distribution, from catering (yes, it even contains recipes your crew will love) to costumes…it’s all here. Packed with thousands of…
A guide to low-budget moviemaking in the UK and around the world. Featuring tips, a yellow pages listing, contracts, and other information needed to create a film, the book explodes industry myth. The accompanying CD-ROM contains accounting programs.
