Direction Production category: 829 books
The SHORT! Guide to Producing
The Practical Essentials of Producing Short Films
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
In this book, Charles Merzbacher offers a concise, definitive guide to the essential skills, techniques and logistics of producing short films, focusing on the practical knowledge needed for line producing and overseeing smaller-scale productions. Drawing on insights from real-life production scenarios,...
Runaway Hollywood
Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and appealing locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon “runaway” production to underscore the...
Digital Compositing for Film and Video
Production Workflows and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Written by senior compositor, technical director and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-to-read and highly-informative guide suitable for both working and aspiring visual effects artists.
This expanded and updated edition of Digital...
Below the Line
Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Below the Line illuminates the hidden labor of people who not only produce things that the television industry needs, such as a bit of content or a policy sound bite, but also produce themselves in the service of capital expansion. Vicki Mayer considers the work of television set assemblers, soft-core...
After Effects in Production
A Companion for Creating Motion Graphics
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Take your After Effects skills to a new level! Twelve step-by-step tutorials, designed by industry professionals, explore a variety of creative approaches as they teach useful design concepts and production techniques.
Updated for After Effects 6.5, this new edition covers the most significant...
Create Documentary Films, Videos and Multimedia
A Comprehensive Guide to Using Documentary Storytelling Techniques for Film, Video, the Internet and Digital Media Projects.
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
How to use documentary visual storytelling concepts and production techniques to make documentaries of all types and formats. Producing, Writing, Directing, Camera, Editing and Distribution covered including actual case studies of all types of documentaries, with Pre-production, Production and Post-production. Fully Illustrated. Interactive Links—New updated Third Edition.
Script Analysis for Theatre
Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools, skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions. Based largely on...
Sound
Dialogue, Music, and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Sound has always been an integral component of the moviegoing experience. Even during the so-called “silent era,” motion pictures were regularly accompanied by live music, lectures, and sound effects. Today, whether we listen to movies in booming Dolby theaters or on tiny laptop speakers, sonic...
by Mark Kalbskopf
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up one morning, quit your job and declare yourself a Film Producer? Have you considered the costs and whether anyone will ever watch it? Who hasn’t wasted 90 minutes then wearily watched scrolling credits and thought, “I reckon I could make...
Behind the Screen
Inside European Production Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film, practical theories of production systems such as film dramaturgy, and the self-theorizing of European auteurs and professionals.
DVD Authoring and Production
An Authoritative Guide to DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, & WebDVD
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
DVD Authoring and Production is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to publishing content in the DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, and WebDVD formats. Readers learn everything they need to create, produce, and master DVDs - including a firsthand look at professional production techniques employed in the author's...
The Art of Illusion
Production Design for Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Film production is a highly creative and collaborative industry, full of multi-skilled artists and craftsmen. The fast-moving pace of technology makes it hard to keep abreast of current practices in production design. However, the ethos and skills behind filmmaking remain the same. In The Art of Illusion,...
Direction
Readings in Theatre Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Is directing an art? Do directors need to be trained? What do directors actually do? These questions and more are answered in this accessibly written survey of the art of theatre direction. Its broad scope ranges across the theatres of both America and Europe, looking at practices from Stanislavski up to the present day.
Superman: The Movie
The 40th Anniversary Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
From the film’s record-break budgets to the enmity between director and producers, the story behind the making of Superman is inherently dramatic. Marking 40 years since the film’s commercial release, the book presents original interview transcripts with the cast and crew that, when read together,...