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The Art of Illusion
Production Design for Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Film production is a highly creative and collaborative industry, full of multi-skilled artists and craftsmen. The fast-moving pace of technology makes it hard to keep abreast of current practices in production design. However, the ethos and skills behind filmmaking remain the same. In The Art of Illusion,...
by Nels Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Videographers can harness the potential that WM9 offers to deliver high-quality video and multimedia via DVD and over the Internet. Illustrated examples and tutorials demonstrate the basic functionality of WM9 as well as the options available to advanced users who wish to design new applications with...
Making a Winning Short
How to Write, Direct, Edit, and Produce a Short Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Making a Winning Short is the first book to give hands-on instruction on how to write, direct, edit, and produce a fictional short in film or video. Edmond Levy guides the beginning filmmaker step-by-step through the stages of making a short: writing the script (from developing the idea to fine-tuning...
Making Your First Feature Film
Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
The tools for independent filmmaking are more accessible today than ever. Yet there is much more to successfully creating a film than access to equipment and software. Chronicling the making of his debut feature film, A Convenient Truth (2015), the author describes the practical preproduction steps...
Production House Cinema
Starting and Running Your Own Cinematic Storytelling Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In Production House Cinema: Starting and Running Your Own Cinematic Storytelling Business, renowned video storyteller Kurt Lancaster offers both students and professionals a practical guide to starting their own video production company and creating cinematic, client-based video content. Utilizing...
by Mark Dileo
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Ulead DVD Workshop is DVD-authoring software designed for video professionals and enthusiasts working on the Windows platform. It permits users to import video from digital or analog sources with sophisticated MPEG capture and conversion tools and build professional looking still or motion menus using...
Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama
Pause, Rewind, Record
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction of new viewing technologies including DVDs, DVRs and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. It shows that these platforms have profoundly altered the ways we access and watch television,...
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s
Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used To?
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more "disturbing," and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include...
Digital Costume Design and Collaboration
Applications in Academia, Theatre, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Digital Costume Design and Collaboration gives in-depth instruction on how to draw, render, and fully design costumes using online tools and software. Grounded in the use of Photoshop, the book explains the process of building a costume design from scratch, including information on digital tools and...
Dancing on the Ceiling
Stanley Donen and his Moves
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
The first book to explore the life and extraordinary work of the legendary moviemaker who directed Singin' in the Rain, On the Town, and Funny Face, from the author of David Lean ("Silverman has captured one of the world's truly great filmmakers"—Billy Wilder). Stanley Donen is the man...
by Ronald Micci
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
A small-time Capone hood named Johnny Pepys (“peeps,” after Samuel Pepys, the famous English diarist), is called upon to take dictation of the wounded kingpin’s memoirs, and soon finds himself caught between a deal he made with Bugsy Moran and Capone’s hostile and suspicious underlings. A humorous parody of The Untouchables. Stage Play (7m/3f) 45 min.
Creating Worlds
How to Make Immersive Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
A practical guide to creating successful immersive theatre productions, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.
Placing the audience at the heart of a production – not as passive bystanders but as active participants – is the impetus behind the hugely varied work of leading immersive...
Stanley Kubrick
Adapting the Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films deviate in notable ways from the source material. In particular, since 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), his films seem to definitively exploit all cinematic techniques, embodying a compelling visual and aural experience. But, as author...
The Documentary Filmmaking Master Class
Tell Your Story from Concept to Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
How to Make and Distribute a Documentary without Losing Your Mind or Going Broke
Documentary filmmaking requires more than just a passion for the subject, whether it be one’s personal story or that of someone else, a historical event or a startling discovery, a political movement or a heinous...