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Overview
THE DIGITAL FILMMAKING HANDBOOK, FOURTH EDITION is a comprehensive digital filmmaking resource for everyone—from beginners to professionals. This book guides you through the modern digital filmmaking workflow from initial concept to finished project and shows you all the tools that will make the process run smoothly and easily. Organized into three parts, just like a film shoot, the book covers preproduction, production, and postproduction. In the preproduction section, you'll go through the decisions necessary to start shooting: writing, technology basics, planning, scheduling, storyboarding, set design, and choosing a camera. Production covers the principal shoot of your project: lighting, using the camera, shooting, and recording production sound. And postproduction wraps up with workstations and equipment, organizing and media management, editing, sound design, color correction, titles, special effects, and delivery of the finished product. Completely revised to cover all the latest digital video technology and innovations, this fourth edition includes information on HD video, shooting with digital SLR cameras, workflows for tapeless recording, and much more. THE DIGITAL FILMMAKING HANDBOOK, FOURTH EDITION will help you navigate the ever-changing developments of new filmmaking technology while keeping the big picture in mind: storytelling.
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From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewThis is one serious guide to digital filmmaking. It brings together virtually all the knowledge and skills you’d need to make a full-fledged indie video. And if your aspirations are less lofty (say you’re creating a training film or trade show presentation), well -- piece of cake.
This new Second Edition hasn’t just been thoroughly updated; it’s also been reorganized to closely reflect professional workflow. Ben Long and Sonja Schenk cover it all: DV technology fundamentals, choosing DV cameras, writing, planning, scheduling, lighting, shooting, sound, post-production workstations, editing, color correction, titling, compositing, output, and a whole lot more.
Never written a script? The authors explain everything from classic Hollywood three-act structure to screenplay formatting and script breakdowns. Never shot anything more than a kid’s birthday party? Read this book and learn the fundamentals of production design, effects planning, camera angles, shot coverage, and composition. Never prepared footage for editing? The authors walk you through logging, timecodes, numbering, adjusting audio levels, even figuring out where that annoying hum is coming from.
You’ll find loads of tutorials, step-by-step checklists, and exercises. You’ll also find an entire DVD full of goodies, including demo versions of Adobe Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop for Windows and Mac, 1.5 GB of media and project files, and 100-plus pages of extra content, covering essentials like budgeting, financing, and pitching your story. This is DV complete: just add talent. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.
From The Critics
Explains how to shoot a movie on digital video and edit it on a computer. Storyboarding, lighting, sound, and software options are discussed. The second edition adds a tutorial that walks through the editing of an entire scene, and moves the chapter on financing to the DVD. The DVD contains demonstration versions of Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop for Macintosh and Windows. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, ORProduct Details
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Meet the Author
Sonja Schenk (Venice, CA) is a freelance producer and film video editor who has worked on a number of popular television shows and movies. She is also the author of Digital Non-Linear Desktop Editing and co-author of both earlier editions of The Digital Filmmaking Handbook.
Ben Long is a San Francisco-based photographer, writer, and teacher. The author of more than two dozen books on digital photography and digital video, he is also a senior contributing editor to Macworld magazine, a contributing editor at CreativePro.com, and the author of several best-selling Lynda.com photography courses. His photography clients have included 20th Century Fox, Blue Note Records, Global Business Network, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Pickle Family Circus, and Grammy nominated jazz musicians Don Byron and Dafnis Prieto. He has taught and lectured on photography around the world, including workshops at the Santa Reparata International School of the Arts in Florence and a class for imaging engineers at Apple, Inc. He occasionally dabbles in computer programming and has written image editing utilities that are used by National Geographic, the British Museum, and the White House.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. 2. Writing and Scheduling. 3. Video Technology Basics. 4. Choosing a Camera. 5. Planning Your Shoot. 6. Lighting. 7. Video Cameras. 8. Digital Still Cameras (DSLRs). 9. Shooting. 10. Production Sound. 11. Workstations and Hardware for Editing. 12. Editing Software. 13. Preparing to Edit. 14. Editing. 15. Sound Editing. 16. Color Correction. 17. Titling and Motion Graphics. 18. Output. About the DVD. Glossary.