Digital Filmmaking 101 reveals the secrets of making professional-quality digital moviemaking on ultra-low budgets.

An essential guide to producing low-budget movies. Reveals the secrets of making professional-quality digital moviemaking on ultra-low budgets: (1) Digital video equipment, personal computers, and software for filmmakers; (2) Scripting; (3) Casting; (4) Production; (5) Distribution; (6) Cost cutting techniques; (7) Production techniques; (8) Guerrilla filmmaking; (9) Working the Film Festival circuit; and (10) Jump starting your film career and much more ...

This first book in the series is designed to introduce the techniques used in digital filmmaking. It is aimed at anyone who has an interest in telling stories with pictures and sound and won't assume any familiarity with equipment or concepts. In addition to the basics of shooting and editing, different story forms will be introduced from documentary and live events through fictional narratives. Each of the topics will be covered in enough depth to allow someone with a camera and a computer to begin creating visual projects they can be proud of. This book is applicable to all novices or as an introduction to digital filmmaking classes. The book should also be a gateway to the series of books designed to impart greater sophistication in all areas of filmmaking.

How to set a scene? What's the best camera angle? How does the new technology interact with scenes? And how does one even get the financing to make a movie? These basic questions and much more are all covered in this exquisite packaged book on the film industry and making movies as a profession. Written by Neil Landau, an experienced screenwriter and script consultant to the major movie studios, this is the perfect book for anyone who wants to know about the inner-workings of this industry. Whether it's someone who wants to make movies as a full-timecareer, or just someone who is interested in film, this book covers it all.

Where does a young filmmaker begin? With the right short-film concept and this book! The right short can be a filmmaker's "business card" in Hollywood. Here's the authoritative handbook by one of Hollywood's most connected insiders that offers a step-by-step guide through the entire creative process of shooting a short film, as well as expert advice from established filmmakers, and a final game plan for promoting and selling the film once it's in the can.Topics covered include: € Concept € Budget € Finding equipment € Assembling a crew € Casting € Arranging for location € Locating festivals and ancillary markets € Working with the unions € Film vs. digital video Plus:€ A list of film schools € Oscar-winning shorts and nominees € A selection of short-film festivals € Actual short-film budgets € Sample scripts and shooting schedules € A helpful short-film glossary

Annotation Not only in the filmmaking, broadcasting, and journalism worlds but in all types of businesses, visual media and video are fast becoming one of the most important tools for disseminating information. This book walks teachers and students through the entire process of digital content creation in a fun, project-oriented way that resonates with a younger audience - from development of the story to deciding which equipment to use, to producing a video and editing the content, to final output and distribution.

Two books in one, this is a complete insider's guide to the business of film or television production.