Helps you learn how to direct television programs, understand complex directing tasks, and the fundamentals of studio production procedure. This guide to multicamera TV directing covers lighting, set, camera operations, floor direction, technical direction, audio, tape, graphics, prompting, and assistant directing.

This guide provides an introduction to teaching digital video production to post-16 students. It demonstrates the importance of effective pre-production and gives advice on developments in digital production and how practical work can be used to engage with the media or film studies curriculum.

Introduces readers to different aspects of the editor's craft, providing a concise history of editing and describing editing style as it applies to various genres of moviemaking, including many types of narrative and documentary films. This title covers particular demands of wide-screen filmmaking, cinema verite, and the avant-garde.

The definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American film-making, if not the entire world. 'Supremely entertaining.' New York Times 'Mouth-watering .

An updated edition - with completely new chapters - of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins' fascinating 15-hour film documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.

Provides grounding in basic grip equipment, techniques, and safety issues. This work offers a list of personal grip tools that a grip should have, and the tricks of the trade. It also offers safety tips for gripping, and detailed descriptions of positions within the grip department, and advice.

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A starter guide for those owning a camcorder, newcomers to the field of broadcast or corporate video-making, or students who wish to make videos to professional standards. It aims to help you master the operation of your camera and develop your own style and imaginative skills and covers topics such as types of video camera, and others.

A guide to editing techniques and practices that covers both technical and creative aspects of video postproduction. It also covers the DTV formats, random access editing systems, and offers tips to help readers become comfortable with the formats and systems.