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Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People

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Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People introduces film students, actors, producers and other nontechnical film people to the technical aspects that everyone working on a film set should know. Author Drew Campbell is a lighting and sound designer for Universal Studios who started out in theater and who was struck by the complex technical procedures and idiosyncratic expressions that he encountered on his first weeks on the set. Topics

Who does what on a film the roles of technical and non-technical team members

Seeing a turning a story into a storyboard and then into a production

Shooting on film or when each format is best used

The parts of a how it functions and how actors can best cooperate with it

the process of recording and editing

the geography and schedule of a set and "getting the shot"

editing, continuity, and the dailies

256 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2002

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January 18, 2013
A nice, fast read that explains the nuts and bolts of film production.
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