Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills

The newly revised third edition of Rick Young's The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X is the ultimate mentor for getting up and running with Apple's professional editing software, regardless of your skill level.

In the cut-throat world of the film industry, you need every advantage you can get to rise above the competition and make a name for yourself.

Finding Your Career in the Modern Audio Industry equips the reader with the skills they need to turn an interest in audio, sound, or music technology into a career.

This edited collection focuses on the production cultures of successful small and medium-sized (SME) film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK, based on a three-year research project, 'Success in the Film and Television Industries' (SiFTI) funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

Producer's Playbook: Real People on Camera is a no-nonsense guide for producers looking to get the best performances from "e;real people"e; to tell powerful stories on video.

Jean Vigo is one of the legendary figures of world cinema, whose films 'L'Atalante' and 'Zero de conduite' still inspire young audiences today.

This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D.

Directly addressing how filmmakers can craft visually powerful films through practical skills that can be used throughout the filmmaking process, author Blain Brown explores how we use space, color, camera angles, composition, motion, POV and all the other methods in the day-to-day work of telling stories visually.

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Produce, direct, promote and sell your own chilling horror film with real-world advice from award-winning producer/director/writer Danny Draven!

JOY is the story of a family across four generations centered on the girlwho becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and, in the process,recovers her childhood magic and finds her place in the world.

This in-depth study of Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional nationalist agenda towards a more global focus.

Reinterpreting twelve of Renoir's best-known works, Professor Faulkner attributes their qualities not to the director's unified sensibility but to varying social and historical circumstances.

The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development provides the first comprehensive overview of international script development practices.

Today's successful cinematographer must be equal parts artist, technician, and business-person.

This book explores the use of Blockchain and smart contract technologies to develop new ways to finance independent films and digital media worldwide.

This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade.

Where is the place of the voice in film?

The Language of the Lens explores the expressive power of the camera lens and the storytelling contributions that this critical tool can make to a film project.

Covering every phase of a theatrical production, this fourth edition of Sound and Music for the Theatre traces the process of sound design from initial concept through implementation in actual performances.

Renowned for his masterful storytelling, Alan J.

This edited collection examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television's current multiplatform era.

Gain a thorough understanding of the nuanced and multidimensional role producers play in television and emerging media today to harness the creative, technical, interpersonal, and financial skills essential for success in this vibrant and challenging field.

Throughout film history, one of the fundamental fantasies portrayed on screen has been the kind of physical action few of us could ever experience in real life.

The chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema present a rich, diverse overview of Canadian cinema.

In his latest book, Michael Betancourt explores the nature and role of typography in motion graphics as a way to consider its distinction from static design, using the concept of the 'reading-image' to model the ways that motion typography dramatizes the process of reading and audience recognition of language on-screen.

Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams.

This book establishes the profound significance of MGM's 1940 film The Mortal Storm, the first major Hollywood production to depict the plight of Jews in Germany before the Holocaust.

Covering every phase of a theatrical production, this fourth edition of Sound and Music for the Theatre traces the process of sound design from initial concept through implementation in actual performances.

Today's technologies and economic models won't settle for a conventional approach to filmmaking.

This book explores the use of Blockchain and smart contract technologies to develop new ways to finance independent films and digital media worldwide.

This book argues that certain films have more to offer by way of conceptualising education than textual scholarship.

Leverage the full power of Avid Media Composer with this essential guide from an Avid guru.

This volume brings together a range of voices from across the global environmental media community to build a comparative international set of perspectives on 'green' film and television production.

The Editor's Toolkit: A Hands-On Guide to the Craft of Film and TV Editing is a tutorial-based introduction to the craft of editing.

With On Screen Directing, renowned filmmaker Edward Dmytryk distills a lifetime of experience as a director into a dozen short essays on the craft of directing, spanning every stage of the filmmaking process, from screenwriting, preproduction, and casting to set design, postproduction, and promotion.

Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society structured to undermine their hopes.

Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon.

Nearly every DLSR camera available today also shoots beautiful high-definition video.

This book guides you through the process of using your phone to create different kinds of video and audio for TV, theaters, YouTube, TikTok, and podcasts.

This book explains the broader context of what the art and craft of motion picture editing entails, framing the creative acts of editing within an overall view of the production process and requirements for effective storytelling.

Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on-screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay.

Reimagining Communication: Mediation explores information and media technologies across a variety of contemporary platforms, uses, content variations, audiences, and professional roles.

Exploring aesthetic decision-making skills through active, critical interpretation of the screenplay, this book investigates the ways filmmakers translate a screenplay into a powerful film.

In the 1970s, British filmmaker Ken Russell (1927-2011) quickly gained a reputation as the enfant terrible of British cinema.

Film and Video Editing Theory offers an accessible, introductory guide to the practices used to create meaning through editing.

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