Direction Production category: 829 books
Off the Planet
Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2004
Over the last decade, music and sound have been increasingly recognized as an important—if often neglected—aspect of film production and film studies. Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound, and Science Fiction cinema. Following...
Shanghai Cuts
A Hollywood Film Editor's Misadventures in China
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Shanghai Cuts (A Hollywood Film Editor’s Misadventures in China) is a first-person account of a film editor working on a television production in Shanghai. Divided from his family in the midst of a crisis, Rick connects with an eclectic cast of characters working on “Flatland,” starring Dennis...
Music Rights Unveiled
A Filmmaker's Guide to Music Rights and Licensing
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Music Rights Unveiled provides an inside look at the complex world of music rights for film and video and includes step-by-step guidance to navigate these tricky waters. Authors Brooke Wentz and Maryam Battaglia share their decades of expertise in this user-friendly guide, designed specifically with...
Essential Dramaturgy
The Mindset and Skillset
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Essential Dramaturgy: The Mindset and Skillset provides a concrete way to approach the work of a dramaturg. It explores ways to refine the process of defining, evaluating, and communicating that is essential to effective dramaturgical work. It then looks at how this outlook enhances the practical...
Everybody's Got A Story!
How to Write, Direct, and Produce YOURS for Stage
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
WHAT’S YOUR STORY?
Do you want to become a “PlaywrightPreneur”? That’s what Tracie Bonnick calls a person who wants to write, direct, or produce their very own original theatre production.In Everybody’s Got a Story, Tracie Bonnick has compiled strategies, information, and valuable...
Directing Greek Tragedy
Carrie Cracknell on Electra
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Follow acclaimed theatre director Carrie Cracknell throughout preparation and rehearsals for her production of Sophocles' Electra at the Gate Theatre, London, translated by Nick Payne and praised by the Evening Standard as an 'urgent new version'. First published as part of Getting Directions: A Fly-on-the-Wall...
by Jeffrey P. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
The third book in CMP's new V.A.S.S.T. series produced in cooperation with the Sundance Media Group, Instant Sound Forge is a general guide to the operation of the application and a graphic "cookbook" of specific techniques for using Sound Forge to fix (hide mistakes) and sweeten (improve)...
The Corporate Media Toolkit
Advanced Techniques for Producers, Writers and Directors
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book offers corporate writers, producers and directors an accessibly-written, hands-on guide to practical techniques important in producing high-quality, nuanced work in a corporate environment. Exploring each phase of media development—project inception, client interactions, scriptwriting,...
Directing Shakespeare
Matthew Dunster on Troilus and Cressida; Natalie Abrahami on A Midsummer Night's Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Follow acclaimed theatre directors Matthew Dunster and Natalie Abrahami throughout preparation and rehearsals for their respective Shakespeare productions: Dunster’s ‘intelligent production’ (Guardian) of Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, and Abrahami’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
Shakespeare for Readers' Theatre, Volume 1
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Shakespeare for Readers’ Theatre is a Readers’ Theatre collection of three of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays in abridged form. Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, as well as Midsummer Night’s Dream have been trimmed while keeping Shakespeare’s beautiful language.
Hamlet can run more than...
Technical Management for the Performing Arts
Utilizing Time, Talent, and Money
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Technical Management for the Performing Arts: Utilizing Time, Talent, and Money is a comprehensive guide to the tools and strategies of a successful technical manager. This book demonstrates how you can coordinate personnel, raw materials, and venues, all while keeping a production on a tight schedule...
Guerrilla Film Marketing
The Ultimate Guide to the Branding, Marketing and Promotion of Independent Films & Filmmakers
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Create an irresistible brand image and build an audience of loyal and engaged fans…
Guerrilla Film Marketing takes readers through each step of the film branding, marketing and promotional process. Tailored specifically to low-budget independent films and filmmakers, Guerrilla Film Marketing...
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...
Directing Adaptations
Nikolai Foster on Great Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Follow acclaimed theatre director Nikolai Foster throughout preparation and rehearsals for his production of Great Expectations for English Touring Theatre, described by The Reviews Hub as ‘a superbly effective reimagining… which breathes a new vibrancy into this well-known story’. First published...