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Master Shots gives filmmakers the techniques they need to execute complex, original shots on any budget. By using powerful master shots and well-executed moves, directors can develop a strong style and stand out from the crowd. Most low-budget movies look low-budget because the director is forced to compromise at the last minute. Master Shots gives you so many powerful techniques that youll be able to respond, even under pressure, and create knock-out shots.

Even when the clock is ticking and the light is fading, the techniques in this book can rescue your film and make every shot look like it cost a fortune. Each technique is illustrated with samples from great feature films and computer-generated diagrams for absolute clarity. From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script, here are easily understood guidelines to help aspiring screenwriters—from novices to practiced writers—hone their craft. Filled with updated material—including all-new personal anecdotes and insights, guidelines on marketing and collaboration, plus analyses of recent films, from American Beauty to Lord of the Rings—Screenplay presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the screenplay that will succeed in Hollywood.

An alternate cover edition can be found here. In Sculpting in Time, he has left his artistic testament, a remarkable revelation of both his life and work. Many critics have tried to interpret his intensely personal vision, but he himself always remained inaccessible. He discusses their history and his methods of work, he explores the many problems of visual creativity, and he sets forth the deeply autobiographical content of part of his oeuvre—most fascinatingly in The Mirror and Nostalgia. Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, we are media.

And while we watch more television than ever before, how we watch it is changing in ways we have barely slowed down to register. No longer content in our traditional role as couch potatoes, we approach television shows, movies, even advertising as invitations to participate—as experiences to immerse ourselves in at will. A how-to guide for getting professional-quality video from your DSLRShooting HD Video with a video-enabled DSLR has many benefits and some tricky drawbacks that digital filmmakers and videographers can overcome to get professional results.

Packed with professionally-tested techniques, this indispensible book serves as a training guide for the complex steps that must be taken before, during, and after filming. At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood. Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them.

Film and video production is a litigation lighting rod: Big-budget producers have lawyers on retainer, but many independent filmmakers are left legally exposed. Arm yourself with the practical advice in this book. You will not only avoid common pitfalls, but become empowered in your daily work. Too many otherwise competent producers turn over every aspect of the deal negotiations to their lawyers and agents. This book explains the principal deals common to every production, putting producers back in the co-pilot seat with their representatives.

The Reel Truth details the pitfalls, snares, and roadblocks that aspiring filmmakers encounter. Reed Martin interviewed more than one hundred luminaries from the independent film world to discuss the near misses that almost derailed their first and second films and identify the close shaves that could have cut their careers short.

Other books may tell you the best way to make your independent film or online short, but no other book describes so candidly how to spot and avoid such issues and obstacles as equipment problems, shooting-day snafus, postproduction myths, theatrical distribution deal breakers, and dozens of other commonly made missteps, including the top fifty mistakes every filmmaker makes.

This book provides a concise presentation of screenwriting basics. The author shows the correct formats for both screenplays and teleplays, and takes the writer through the writing and marketing process. Down and dirty is a filmmaking mindset. Get started NOW with this book and DVD set, a one-stop shop written by a guerrilla filmmaker, for guerrilla filmmakers. You will learn how to make your project better, faster, and cheaper. The pages are crammed with full-color pictures, tips from the pros, resources, checklists and charts, making it easy to find what you need fast. The Technique of Film and Video Editing provides a detailed, precise 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. Analysis of photographs from dozens of classic and contemporary films and videos provide a sound basis for the professional filmmaker and student editor. This book puts into context the storytelling choices an editor will have to make against a background of theory, history, and practice.

This edition includes brand new chapters covering the goals of editing, including editing for narrative clarity, subtext, aesthetics, and dramatic emphasis, all showing how to evoke specific audience responses. Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of film — from Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh to Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Lumet. The conversations brought together in this book give us a history of the movies. They are the stories of pioneers who came to the picture business from many worlds.

Some were adventurers running away to sea; joining Pancho Villa before finding their place in the movies. Some were football stars, some electrical engineers, lawyers, auto mechanics, airplane designers. Many of them were men who lived to the hilt and brought to their work the residue of their earlier experiences. But after retiring from film-making in , he then spent nearly 25 years teaching his craft at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Mackendrick produced hundreds of pages of masterly handouts and sketches, designed to guide his students to a finer understanding of how to write a story, and then use those devices peculiar to cinema in order to tell that story as effectively as possible.

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: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive manual that teaches the essentials of filmmaking from the perspective of the director. Ideal for film production and directing classes, as well as for aspiring and current directors, Directing covers all phases of preproduction and production, from idea development to final cut.

Thoroughly covering the basics, Directing guides the reader to professional standards of expression and control, and goes to the heart of what makes a director. The book outlines a great deal of practical work to meet this goal, with projects, exercises. The third edition emphasizes the connection between knowing and doing, with every principle realizable through projects and exercises. Much has been enhanced and expanded, notably: Checklists are loaded with practical recommendations for action, and outcomes assessment tables help the reader honestly gauge his or her progress.

Entirely new chapters present: Few cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the cinematic medium as John Alton. No less renowned for his virtuoso color cinematography and deft appropriation of widescreen and Technicolor, he earned an Academy Award in for his work on the musical An American in Paris. First published in , and long out of print since then, Painting With Light remains one of the few truly canonical statements on the art of motion picture photography, an unrivalled historical document on the workings of the postwar, American cinema. In simple, non-technical language, Alton explains the job of the cinematographer and explores how lighting, camera techniques, and choice of locations determine the visual mood of film.

Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience. Lavishly produced and illustrated, Cinematography covers the entire range of the profession. Cinematography 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.

Recognizing that professionals know when to break the rules and when to abide by them, this book discusses many examples of fresh ideas and experiments in cinematography. This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the s introduces the young filmmakers—Coppola, Scorsese, Lucas, Spielberg, Altman, and Beatty—and recreates an era that transformed American culture forever. Though this book was initially published in when Hitchcock was still active, Truffaut later prepared a revised edition that covered the final stages of his career. Written by filmmakers for filmmakers, this essential text now includes the latest information on digital age filmmaking, where the shifting boundaries between film, video, and computer systems have introduced a wide range of methods and equipment every filmmaker must master to be competitive.

This comprehensive reference guide addresses the techniques necessary to make feature, documentary, industrial, and experimental films while detailing the possibilities and limitations of various formats. New chapters spotlight video camera and video editing, essential information for modern film students and makers who focus on video production exclusively.

According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this instructive and funny book is written in dialogue form and based on film classes Mamet taught at Columbia University.

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He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition of uninflected images. The best films, Mamet argues, are composed of simple shots. The great filmmaker understands that the burden of cinematic storytelling lies less in the individual shot than in the collective meaning that shots convey when they are edited together.

Mamet borrows many of his ideas about directing, writing, and acting from Russian masters such as Konstantin Stanislavsky, Sergei M.

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Eisenstein, and Vsevelod Pudovkin, but he presents his material in so delightful and lively a fashion that he revitalizes it for the contemporary reader. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question — Why do cuts work? Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and reality; criteria for a good cut; the blink of the eye as an emotional cue; digital editing; and much more. Acting Face to Face: Film Production Management nd edition: How to Make a Movie in 10 Easy Lessons: Learn how to write, direct, and edit your own film without a Hollywood budget Super Skills.

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Return to Book Page. Preview — Digital Filmmaking by Mike Figgis. Digital Filmmaking by Mike Figgis. Now there is no reason to prevent anybody from making a film. The technology exists, the equipment is much cheaper than it was, the post-production facilities are on a laptop computer, the entire equipment to make a film can go in a couple of cases and be carried as hand luggage on a plane. He outlines the equipment and its uses, and provides an authoritative guide to the shooting process—from working with actors to lighting, framing, and camera movement.

He dispenses further wisdom on the editing process and the use of sound and music, all while establishing a sound aesthetic basis for the digital format. Offering everything that you could wish to know on the subject, this is a handbook that will become an essential backpocket eference 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. Paperback , pages. Published April 17th by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Digital Filmmaking , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jul 28, Toby rated it it was amazing Shelves: View all 4 comments. Mar 04, Luke rated it really liked it Recommends it for: I picked this book up to learn about making films on digital video. I knew very little about the topic and didn't know how much I would get from this book.

Happily, I learned quite a bit from this slim less than pgs book and also learned what else I needed to learn! This is not a nuts-and-bolts guide to making a digital film.

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It won't explain precisely how to edit films in Final Cut Pro or how to make sure that your aperture is set to precisely the right level. But it will help you gain con I picked this book up to learn about making films on digital video. But it will help you gain confidence in your abilities and give you some very useful advice from a director who definitely knows what he's doing. He was one of the early directors to embrace the freedoms of DV while most directors were scoffing at it's limitations. In this book, he doesn't assume that you know a lot about filmmaking, but I imagine that a seasoned director would still find quite a bit to learn in this book.

He gives practical, simple advice "You can light a scene with the light from a cell phone if you need to" to advice on complicated and delicate situations How to make sure that you retain creative control of your project. Thank you for taking the time to read my review! Aug 23, Bakunin rated it liked it. Filmmaker Mike Figgis describes how his own development as a filmmaker and gives some advice to young directors. I initially thought that this book was meant to be a direct introduction to the art of filmmaking, and was therefore disappointed in the beginning.

Despite this however I learned quite a bit from Figgis and will heed his advice when making my own short films. Jan 15, Fuzzy Gerdes rated it it was amazing. I've been intrigued by Mike Figgis since we saw Time Code during the rehearsals for A Day in the Life -- it's a flawed movie, but an incredibly interesting idea. And Leaving Las Vegas was gut-wrenchingly good, so I knew he had chops. So I was looking forward to reading Digital Filmmaking.

And indeed there's some practical advice here and some broad opinions about the future of film and the possibilities of cheap filmmaking. But most importantly, it had me itching to get my hands on my camera I've been intrigued by Mike Figgis since we saw Time Code during the rehearsals for A Day in the Life -- it's a flawed movie, but an incredibly interesting idea.

But most importantly, it had me itching to get my hands on my camera and get filming. Nov 13, Eleftheria rated it did not like it Recommended to Eleftheria by: This book is an introduction to filmmaking for non experienced,amateurs or wanna be film makers. Any one who has had some or even little experience in film making will not find this interesting or handy whatsoever. Nevertheless, is a good reminder of those things one tends to forget while filming - could work perfectly as a reminder list -and of the i massive and cheap tools digital era offers.

Mar 16, Laura Cavendish rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Anyone interested in film at a beginners level. An extremely inspiring book for anyone who is interested in making films because they have something to say, not because they want big bucks. Has great reinforcement for people whom can't afford to run a large production, lets you know that you can still succeed. Sep 27, Caitlin rated it really liked it Shelves: Picking up lots of useful advice from this, but Mike Figgis is a self-centred cocky mofo and it just screams off the page. Jun 20, Mun85 rated it liked it.

Good insight from Director although a little bit black or white opinionated. Jan 16, PJ rated it really liked it. I learnt that there is more than one cover for this book, and that the Fig Rig is cool. Jan 07, Dave marked it as to-read.