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Video Shooter

Mastering Storytelling Techniques

by Barry Braverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Tired of the all the digital filmmaking guidebooks that give you only the nuts and bolts of how to use a camera? The third edition of Video Shooter takes the how-to knowledge a step further by showing you how to craft a story in your video. Barry Braverman is an experienced shooter and filmmaker...
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The Cinema of Norman Mailer

Film is Like Death

by Norman Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017

The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death not only examines the enfant terrible writer's thoughts on cinema, but also features interviews with Norman Mailer himself. The Cinema of Norman Mailer also explores Mailer's cinema through previously published and newly commissioned essays written by...
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Star Wars Stormtroopers

Beyond the Armor

by Ryder Windham, Adam Bray
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

Foreword by John Boyega Just in time for the next blockbuster, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, this unique and beautifully designed compendium with removable features traces one of the franchise’s most iconic characters—the stormtrooper—from initial development through all nine Star Wars movies to...
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by Barry Keith Grant
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018

Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily human, from serial killers like Norman Bates to the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And...
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Shanghai Palace (Filmscript)

Mobster Christmas

by heidi jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

Shanghai Palace An independant film script about two streetwise thugs that form an unlikely friendship despite their racial beliefs. Will Ye sell his strip club Shanghai Palace to Frankie from New Jersey? Will Adrianna the beautiful exotic dancer fall in love with Yin Wa the Harvard Grad?...
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by Satyajit Ray
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013

Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema, was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who set a new standard for Indian cinema with his Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (1955), Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (1956), and Apur Sansar...
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The Portable Film School

Everything You'd Learn in Film School (Without Ever Going to Class)

by D. B. Gilles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005

The Portable Film School is a private tutorial from an instructor at one of the nation's most prestigious film schools. D.B. Gilles explains the fundamental skills and techniques of screenwriting and making a short film arming you with the two calling cards you'll need to break into Hollywood – without having spent the tuition or a minute in a classroom.
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by Melinda Camber Porter, Wim Wenders
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

The conversation (with embedded video clips) between Wim Wenders and Melinda Camber Porter (1953-2008) took place on location in Texas in December 1983, while Mr. Wenders was shooting his first American Film, Paris Texas. America was a place of European immigrants, German immigrants, and a vast land...
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Shoot the Rehearsal!

Behind the Scenes with Assistant Director Reggie Callow

by Rudy Behlmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010

Ridgeway (Reggie) Callow began his film career in the early 1930s and for four decades worked as an assistant director on some of the most memorable films in Hollywood history. In the early 1970s, over a period of several months, film historian Rudy Behlmer conducted interviews with Callow, and the...
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Greenscreen Made Easy

Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers

by Jeremy Hanke, Michele Yamazaki
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

Designed to bring the necessary skills to the Indie or student filmmaker, "Greenscreen Made Easy" offers practical advice on how to create a screen, light subjects dynamically, and manipulate the camera to get the best possible production footage.
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by John Jackman
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

Enhance the visual quality of your motion pictures and digital videos with a solid understanding of lighting fundamentals. This complete course in digital video lighting begins with how the human eye and the camera process light and color, progresses through the basics of equipment and setups, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014

Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of "play making." Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous advances in recent...
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by Tina Bicat
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

Costumes designed and made for devised or physical drama, for contemporary circus or for dance, differ radically from the more traditional costume work produced for naturalistic performance. For those working in the field - whether professional or student - these differences present challenges that...
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by Mike Figgis
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

In this indispensable guide to digital film-making, leading film-maker Mike Figgis offers the reader a step-by-step tutorial in how to use digital technology so as to get the best from it. Mike Figgis, with experience from films such as Miss Julie and Leaving Las Vegas - for which he received...
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