Navigating the necessary skills for shooting fiction film or TV is a challenge for any filmmaker. This book demystifies the art and craft of “coverage”—explaining where to put the camera to shoot any kind of scene. Author Mark Rosman takes readers step by step through the basics such as scene analysis, blocking actors, composition, shot listing, storyboarding, and screen direction to the more advanced, including how to shoot fights, car chases, and visual effects scenes. Rosman draws on his extensive film career to reveal the tips and tricks professional directors use to shoot creatively, quickly, and effectively on any budget and design the perfect shooting plan to make memorable and impactful film and TV. Through simple descriptions, clearly drawn diagrams, storyboard panels, and frames from famous movies, this book is a comprehensive and in-depth look at the art and craft of mastering coverage. Ideal for students of directing and film production as well as any filmmaker looking for a guide to shooting any scene. Includes two bonus online chapters covering on set procedure and how to watch your dailies.

Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition, is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions. The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety. It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including LEDs, xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. Since its first edition, this handy on-set reference continues to be widely adopted as a training and reference manual by union training programs as well as top university film production programs. New to the fourth edition: * Detailed information on LED technology and gear * Harmonized with union safety and training procedures * All the latest and greatest DMX gadgets, including remote control systems * Many new and useful lights and how to use them and troubleshoot them. * New additions to the arsenal of electrical distribution equipment that make our sets safer and easier to power. * More rigging tricks and techniques. * the same friendly, easy to read style that has made this book so popular.

From the writer and director of Kerala's first iPhone feature film. This book is for you if you are looking to do the following:? Learn quickly what took Ashik five years? Learn the dos and don'ts of smartphone filmmaking? Make a film for a low budget and not wait for the date of a big star, or large sums of money from a producer? Send to festivals or release it on OTT platforms"Extensively documented. Many interesting insights"-Rahul Riji Nair, Filmmaker"An inspiration"-Raj Bk, Actor, Filmmaker"More important than film history and aesthetics"-Harshitha S, FilmmakerEveryone says to go and shoot your film on a smartphone. Do it cheap. Make a low-budget film. But besides a phone, what else do you need to make your first feature film? It is not stars, stunts, money, music, dance, exotic locations, camera, VFX?!This book will help you:? Find your caliber and hone it better? Gain knowledge and confidence to go make your movie? Raise money and make a micro-budget film for ?5 lakhs ($ 7,000), on a mobile phone? Sell the movie on Amazon Prime and gain profit and international viewershipAbout The WriterAshik's aim is to make world-class films. He set foot into the professional arena by writing and directing Munnariv (2020), the first-ever Malayalam feature film to be shot entirely on an iPhone.Besides Munnariv he also made over 10 short films, assisted several Ads and award-winning feature films like Ottamuri Velicham (2017). Ashik is an Engineer by degree who worked with Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai. He quit, traveled across India soul searching, and finally choose to follow his passion for stories. Besides making great films, he also loves to teach filmmaking.This book is not for people looking to make a star-studded high budget commercial movie. The Indian Indie Film is:? Intensive and written from experience? A complete guide on low budget filmmaking and selling itGo and make your film now!

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video is the definitive book on the subject for beginning filmmakers and students. The book clearly illustrates all of the steps involved in preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both producer and director, and explains how their separate energies must combine to create a successful short film or video, from script to final product. This guide offers extensive examples from award-winning shorts and includes insightful quotes from the filmmakers themselves describing the problems they encountered and how they solved them. The companion website contains useful forms and information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations.

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While spending the day in the Robinson household, Wilbur’s best friend Lewis helps search for Grandfather Robinson’s missing false teeth in this classic picture book from William Joyce that inspired the Disney animated sci-fi comedy, Meet the Robinsons! No need to knock, just step right in. You’re just in time to two-step with Grandfather Robinson and his dancing frog band. Cousin Laszlo is demonstrating his new antigravity device. And Uncle Art’s flying saucer is parked out back. It seems like all the Robinson relatives are here, so be prepared. And keep your head down…Uncle Gaston is testing out the family cannon. Oh, and watch where you sit, Grandpa’s lost his teeth again. Welcome to the Robinson’s.