The only how-to guide dedicated to mastering the technique of digital matte painting! Matte painting affords seamless integration between an artist's painting with live action film footage and allows for greater flexibility and creative input in the appearance of movie settings.
Presents a comprehensive filmmaking resource for beginners. This book guides you from your initial concept to your finished project, covering writing, pre-production planning, shooting, how to create professional level shots and effects, and post-production editing and effects.
Provides a detailed look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Because editing is about more than learning a specific software program, this book focuses on the fundamentals of editing as art. It includes examples, analysis, and film stills from great movies.
There's more to being a DP than holding a light meter! This book presents the basics and beyond, employing clear explanations of standard practice together with substantial illustrations and diagrams to reveal the real world of film production. It discusses many examples of fresh ideas and experiments in cinematography.
Illuminates various aspects of Steadicam operating. This book discusses the equipment and accessories available, and also illustrates the operating techniques and tricks, a variety of strategies for working with others, and the business side of a Steadicam career. It is suitable for camera operators and directors who want to move the camera well.
Takes the media production process and deconstructs it into its basic components. This title helps students to learn the basic concepts of media production: frame, sound, light, time, motion, sequencing, and be able to apply them to any medium they choose. It includes companion Web site with interactive exercises.
Suitable for all those film enthusiasts who can't get on a professional set or can't undertake studies at an expensive film school, this book approaches the subject of cinematography from a 'hands-on, in the trenches' viewpoint, as though the reader were an apprentice on the set.
A guide for practising and aspiring cinematographers and DOPs to digital cinematography essentials - from how to use the cameras to the world of High Definition cinematography and 24p technology. It also features a guide to the Sony DVW in-camera menus - showing how to set them up and how they work.
Addresses the problems and difficult choices faced by the professional compositor in real-life situations. This book presents you with tips, tricks and techniques for dealing with the badly shot elements, color artifacts, and mismatched lighting that bedevil compositors.
Introduces digital camerawork techniques used in television and video production. This book features step-by-step instructions on camera controls, editing, lighting and sound. Talking about transition between analogue and digital acquisition/recording formats, it provides information on the different production styles and requirements.
Suitable for those looking to take their independently-produced film or video into the 3rd dimension, this text features technical, practical, and inspirational insight from the visionaries who've been producing 3D film and video for decades. It offers low-cost techniques and tricks they've been implementing themselves for years.
Takes you to a fresh level of competence and expertise by presenting the camera as a potent storytelling tool. This title helps to learn the basics of HD formats, the fundamentals of compression and color space. It provides insightful anecdotes and tutorials that help you learn the video shooter's craft.
Studio and outside broadcast is often done with more than one camera and has its own distinct discipline and operational procedures. This book describes multi-camerawork and the techniques required to produce professional results. It includes material on widescreen shooting and provides explanations of basic concepts for easy understanding.
With the aid of photographs and diagrams, this text concisely presents concepts and techniques of motion picture camerawork and the allied areas of film-making with which they interact with and impact. Included are discussions on: cinematic time and space; compositional rules; and types of editing.
Location filming is growing in popularity with the abundance of affordable cameras. This book offers you the knowledge and confidence you need to take your on-location shooting skills to the next level. It helps to earn the basics of shooting properly on location.
Guides students through the technical and aesthetic aspects of movie making by highlighting the decisions that are made throughout the creative process as well as the strategies filmmakers develop to bring their vision to life. This book emphasizes directorial and storytelling functions of a narrative film.
Suitable for those working in or aspiring to work in VFX, this book covers techniques and solutions various VFX artists, producers, and supervisors need to know, from preproduction, to digital character creation and compositing of both live-action and CG elements.
Focusing on the subject of sound for films, this title provides real-life examples and relevant technical data. It covers popular sound editing systems such as Pro Tools and Final Cut Pro. It also includes a DVD with a library of sound effects, while charts, and photographs help to demonstrate techniques and common industry practices.
Lets you experience many of the teaching techniques of the golden era of Disney and Warner Brothers studios and beyond all from the comfort of your own home or studio. This title features Animation Master Class that is designed to cover the core principles of animated movement.
This manual is an illustrated guide to over 100 different camera models, both new and old. It gives the reader the information needed to decide which camera to choose for a particular job, where information and manuals are not available, and caters for every type of film camera from 65mm to Super8.
Offers the reader a tutorial in how to get the very best from digital film-making technology. This handbook serves as a reference for the digital film enthusiast - whether your goal is to make no-budget movies, or simply to put your video camera to more use than just holidays and weddings.
Need to take your Adobe Premiere Pro skills to the next level? This work takes a visual, task-based approach to teaching Premiere Pro, using pictures to guide you through the software and shows you what to do. It also provides concise, straightforward steps and explanations that helps you learn tasks and concepts.
A practice and theory guide that sets out the best methods in producing sound for multi-media and the academic theories that underpin the history and analysis of sound expression. It teaches how qualitative sound can be produced for drama, documentary and journalism in radio, theatrical stage production, television and film, online, and animation.
A technical guide providing the facets and duties of the first and second camera assistants' jobs. It explains both the practice and theory. It covers topics such as film formats and aspect ratios, testing lenses and camera equipment, focus theory, film loading and labeling, scene blocking, marking actors, and others.
Takes animation and voice-over students and professionals alike through the animated voice-over world. This book provides information, exercises, and advice from professional voice-over artists. It helps you develop your own characters, and learn techniques to exercise your own voice gain the versatility you need to compete.
A guide to the art and technique of color correction. It provides an understanding of what top-tier colorists look for in an image and how they know what to do to make it great. It helps you to learn how to: fix poorly exposed shots and shots with color casts; create looks; master primary and secondary color correction techniques; and, more.
Presents the challenges faced by a collection of film and design world luminaries in designing type for film and video. This book discusses each designer''s story which describes the assignment and then provides an account of how a concept was executed. It includes visuals and contains a portfolio of finished work on the accompanying DVD.
Offers a view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, animated piece, or video game. This book helps you learn how to structure your visuals. It is suitable for writers, directors, photographers, production designers, art directors, and editors.
Offers an introduction to the fascinating field of recording, editing, mixing, and exhibiting film and television sound. This book presents basic principles with illustrations demonstrating how they affect the day-to-day activities on a film or television set, in the editing room, and in the mix room.
The Grammar of Documentary Editing discusses in depth how to edit for a range of documentary styles and how to shape your material into an engaging story. This unique masterclass is taught by an editor of award-winning documentaries, and includes video clips to illustrate each technique as well as interviews with professionals.
Focuses on the techniques and technology of single camera electronic news gathering and electronic field production. This book covers from basic creative and technical editing techniques to budgets and copyright issues. It includes focus on TV news production and field production and is suitable for complete beginners.
Helps you to learn how many Hollywood techniques can help solve problems on smaller productions. This title offers step-by-step instructions on how to: build an efficient and reliable audio post setup; plan and budget a good soundtrack; get sound into your NLE without losing quality or sync; edit voices and music; and, record Foley and ADR.
Being a successful editor is about more than just knowing how to operate a certain piece of software, or when to make a certain transition. This title offers insights on various technical issues such as script breakdown, prepping for sound effects, organizing camera and sound reports, comparison timings, assembly footages and more.
Teaches how animations should be arranged in relation to each other, how much space should be used and how long each drawing should be shown for maximum dramatic effect. This title includes timing for digital production, digital storyboarding in 2d, digital storyboarding in 3d, the use of After Effects and much more.
Filmmaking is an art, but, like other art forms, there are basic underlying tools and techniques and a body theoretical knowledge that must be understood and mastered before artistic expression can flourish. This book, suitable for the aspiring DoPs, deals with practical problems relating to a shoot, and discusses the principles of cinematography.
Introduces readers to different aspects of the editor's craft, providing a concise history of editing and describing editing style as it applies to various genres of moviemaking, including many types of narrative and documentary films. This title covers particular demands of wide-screen filmmaking, cinema verite, and the avant-garde.
Aims to teach picture composition and enhance the quality of the work. This book includes compositional implications of widescreen, DV cameras, and teaches through examples of practical scenarios and problem-solving. It is useful for a practising camera and trainee camera operator, and, students and lecturers on a film production course.
Provides a comprehensive explanation of film sound, including mixing, dubbing, workflow, budgeting, and digital audio techniques. Practically grounded with real-world stories from the trenches throughout, this book also provides relevant technical data, as well as an appreciation of the processes involved in creating optimal motion picture sound.
Focusing on the techniques and concepts behind the equipment, this book demonstrates the fundamental principles needed to create good video content on any kind of budget. This book covers the techniques of persuasive camerawork, successful lighting and sound treatment, and video editing.