Digital Video: An Introduction

by Tom Ang

Discusses all aspects of digital video production, from shooting and editing to creating finished movies on disc or tape and streaming on the Web.

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

Published March 6, 2006

About the author

Photographer, author, traveler and academic. An early pioneer in digital photography, I have written over 30 books on photography as well as on video. This work was recognised by the award of the HIPA Content Producer Award in 2019. I also won the Thomas Cook award for best Illustrated Travel Book for my coverage of the Marco Polo Expedition.

I was senior lecturer in photographic practice at the University of Westminster for over 12 years (1991–2004) and created the MA Photographic Journalism course. For over 10 years I photographed in Central Asia, traveling in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. I led a Know How Fund project that helped equip a radio studio for radio students and which reformed the journalism curriculum for the Kyrgyz Russian Slavonic University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

I have written over thirty books on photography and video including Digital Photography Masterclass (now 3rd edition), Fundamentals of Photography,Tao of Photography, Digital Photographer’s Handbook (now 7th edition), Picture Editing (2nd edition), Eyewitness Companion: Photography, and Digital Video Handbook, How to Photograph Absolutely Everything.

I presented the BBC series ‘A Digital Picture of Britain’, first transmitted in 2005 on BBC4. A second series, entitled 'Britain in Pictures' was transmitted in 2007. I also presented an 8-part TV series for CNA (Channel News Asia) in Singapore which was broadcast in August 2009. This took a Bronze at the New York Film and TV Festival the following year.

I have served on juries of Hamdan International Photography Award, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, World Photography Award, Czech Press Photo.

I am a Sony NZ Digital Imaging Ambassador.

Reviews

[Deanna Roy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is dated (probably ALL books on DSLR video get dated before they hit the shelves) but nonetheless gives simple practical advice using most types of video cameras.

The overviews are pretty basic, though, and this book assumes you are using very consumer-oriented automated cameras. But if you don't know anything about capturing clean audio, or color correcting and framing raw footage, then take a look.

[Norman · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far this book has been a good guide to basic videography.