Television Field Production and Reporting provides a comprehensive introduction to the art of video storytelling. Endorsed by the National Press Photographers Association, this book focuses on the many techniques and tools available in today’s digital landscape, including how drones and miniaturized technology can enrich the storytelling process. The new edition of Television Field Production and Reporting is an absolute must in this visually oriented, rapidly changing fi...

3D Robotics co-founder and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop.In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of “Makers...

A complete catalogue of motion picture techniques for filmmakers. It concentrates on the 'storytelling' school of filmmaking, utilizing the work of the great stylists who established the versatile vocabulary of technique that has dominated the movies since 1915. This graphic approach includes comparisons of style by interpreting a 'model script', created for the book, in storyboard form.

If you’ve got a love and passion for photography, and a feel for your camera gear and settings, yet your images still fall short–The Passionate Photographer will help you close that disappointing and frustrating gap between the images you thought you took and the images you actually got.This book will help you determine what you want to say with your photography, then translate those thoughts and feelings into strong images. It is both a source of inspiration and a practic...

Would you like to learn how to write, shoot, produce, edit and direct professional digital videos? This handbook does just that: From the first idea - to a Hollywood style movie! Our worldwide digital explosion requires a new kind of How To books. Why? Most photographers are not just still-photographers anymore. Journalists, reporters, editors, camera operators, photographers depend on digital video knowledge. Nowadays, advertising, marketing, public relations and Internet communications p...

The book uses extensive illustrations to explain how to create extended sequence shots, elaborate moving camera choreography, and tracking shots with multiple story points.

This definitive handbook explains how a script is transformed into a motion picture or television program. Readers will learn the methodology and craft of the script supervisor, who ensures that the continuity of a film, its logical progression, is coherent.The book teaches all vital script supervising functions, including how to:.prepare, or "break down" a script for shooting.maintaining screen direction and progression.matching scenes and shots for editing

For years, award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt has been teaching aspiring directors how to make “no-budget” films, both in workshops and in his classic guide Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices. Now Schmidt shows them how it is easier—and cheaper—than ever to make an innovative, high quality work, thanks to digital video. Filled with the latest information on equipment and software, ideas for experimenting with new moviemaking techniques, and advice based on Schmidt’s own ex...

As you sit down and take notes during business meetings and other presentations, you wish for a system in which you can take notes in a dynamic fashion. You want to be able to take plain, boring old notes and transform them into a medium that will give those ideas structure, clarity, meaning....and life. From these ideas, this innovative system of note taking can spur your creativity and you can be able to explore new creative avenues and come up with groundbreaking ideas that will take yo...

In this new and expanded edition of The Art Direction Handbook, author Michael Rizzo now covers art direction for television, in addition to updated coverage of film design. This comprehensive, professional manual details the set-up of the art department and the day-to-day job duties: scouting for locations, research, executing the design concept, supervising scenery construction, and surviving production. Beyond that, there is an emphasis on not just how to do the job, b...

Is the sound for your film all it can be? Need practical advice?This free book is filled with how-to techniques and coaching from someone who has taught Film Sound for almost 20 years.Get this invaluable resource today.

POINT, SHOOT, PROFIT.Winner of a 2013 Small Business Book Award - Technology CategoryThis step-by-step, nuts-and-bolts guide from television-media producer Michael Rosenblum shows you how to get rich quick using your iPhone or camcorder to:CREATE VIDEO CONTENT LIKE A PROEDIT AND GET IT ONLINEFIND YOUR CLIENTS AND START CASHING INBUILD A CAREER THAT’S TRENDING"You must read this brilli...