130 Projects to Get You into Filmmaking (Aspire Series)

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Brand new in Barron's Aspire Series for students of various arts, this book offers expert guidance in the principles, practice, and techniques of filmmaking. Author and filmmaker Elliot Grove introduces students to the craft of making movies by explaining simple techniques and advising on use of readily available, low-budget equipment and software. He devotes special attention to—

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Overview

Brand new in Barron's Aspire Series for students of various arts, this book offers expert guidance in the principles, practice, and techniques of filmmaking. Author and filmmaker Elliot Grove introduces students to the craft of making movies by explaining simple techniques and advising on use of readily available, low-budget equipment and software. He devotes special attention to—

  • The Lingo: film industry vocabulary and money-raising techniques
  • Getting Organized: necessary equipment and how to get it
  • The Shoot: cameras, lighting, sound, storyboards, and more
  • Looking Good: makeup, stunts, special effects, and more
  • Post Production: the editor's role, and much more

• Additional chapters describe the role of directors and advise students on how to publicize, market, and distribute a film, how to choose a formal film course, and how to turn film training into a professional career. More than 250 color photos and illustrations.

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If the screenplay equation of one page equaling one minute of screen time can be applied, then Grove, a producer and founder of Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards, couldn't provide a more tightly packed and potent two-hour narrative—this may be the most engaging and visually demonstrative introduction to filmmaking available in print. Actual filmic examples of diagrammed screenshots, storyboards, script breakdown sheets, business forms, equipment, lighting, makeup, and shot catalogs help to flesh out attractively the author's attainable 130 steps from idea to direction to postproduction to marketing and publicity. With a glossary, site lists, and a web promotion section. VERDICT From students to do-it-yourself upstarts, visually thinking artists embracing a visual medium can finally take part in the conversation. A lively supplement to academic texts, and a pleasing peek for fair-weather enthusiasts. See also Nathan Parker's Short Films, Andy Glynne's Documentaries, and Troy Lanier and Clay Nichols's Filmmaking for Teens.—Ben Malczewski, Ypsilanti Dist. Lib., MI
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764142963
  • Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/1/2009
  • Series: Aspire Series
  • Pages: 128
  • Sales rank: 493,862
  • Product dimensions: 8.30 (w) x 11.00 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Elliot Grove founded Britain's Raindance Film Festival in 1993, The British Independent Film Awards in 1998, and Raindance TV in 2007. He has produced more than 150 short films and five feature-length films. He teaches writers and producers in the U.S., the U.K., Europe, and Japan, and has written two previous books on filmmaking, as well as a soon-to-be published novel.

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