The filmmaker’s handbook. A comprehensive guide for the digital age

Considered the “bible” of film production, adopted for use in film courses around the world, The Filmmaker’s Handbook is an indispensable source of practical information and sound advice on the techniques and technologies needed to make movies. Expanded, updated, and completely revised for the digital age, this comprehensive resource is written by filmmakers for filmmakers. It will give you the tools you need for taking your dreams from script to screen.
Discover:
• Techniques for shooting narrative, documentary, corporate, experimental, and feature films
• What you need to know to make your movie using video, film. or a combination of the two
• Shooting with film and video cameras
• Editing with computer-based nonlinear systems as well as with traditional film and video methods
• The theory and practice of digital and analog recording for video and audio
• Thorough grounding in lenses lighting, sound recording, and editing
• Film-to-video transfers and vice versa
• The business aspects of financing and producing your movie and getting it shown, broadcast, and distributed
…For both the professional and novice filmmaker, with advice that balances the technical with the aesthetic demands of moviemaking