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Get Started in Film Making: A Comprehensive Gude from Scriptwriting, Casting, and Financing to Lighting, Editing, and the Final Cut
Get Started in Film Making is the essential guide for all budding film makers, empowering and inspiring anyone to unleash their creative side. Completely revised and updated, it is the perfect manual for smartphone Spielberg's, Go-Pro adrenalin junkies, drone-warriors, and wannabe vloggers.
It covers every aspect of making films, showing you what's involved from start to finish. You won't get bogged down with technical jargon or confusing proprietary expressions. Instead it breaks things down into easy, step-by-step stages, emphasizing that creativity, enthusiasm and drive are just as important as cool kit and funky editing apps.
From scriptwriting, casting and cameras to lighting, financing, filming, and editing, this is a most comprehensive, user-friendly guide on the market. So whether you're using a smartphone, a drone, or a state of the art camera, get ready to step up from shooting clips to making films.
It covers every aspect of making films, showing you what's involved from start to finish. You won't get bogged down with technical jargon or confusing proprietary expressions. Instead it breaks things down into easy, step-by-step stages, emphasizing that creativity, enthusiasm and drive are just as important as cool kit and funky editing apps.
From scriptwriting, casting and cameras to lighting, financing, filming, and editing, this is a most comprehensive, user-friendly guide on the market. So whether you're using a smartphone, a drone, or a state of the art camera, get ready to step up from shooting clips to making films.
320 pages, Paperback
First published August 27, 2010
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March 6, 2021
Lots of practical advice explained in a concise friendly manner.
July 29, 2022
I loved the little details of this book, that many similar books didn't offer. Such as, calling out clocks, candles, cigarettes, etc - in terms of shot continuity.
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