Cinematography (Behind the Silver Screen)
How does a film come to look the way it does? What influence does a film's look have on our reaction to it? Cinematography's role as a science and an art is often forgotten. Cinematography remedies this omission by examining the highlights of the art of the cinematographer and providing the first comprehensive overview of how the field has rapidly evolved, from the early silent film era to today's digital imagery. It shows how the art of cinematography has been influenced by both technological...
Editing and Special/Visual Effects (Behind the Silver Screen)
The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the 'trick films'of the early silent era, which astounded audiences by splicingin or editing out key frames, all the way to today's cutting-edgeeffects technologies. Multiple filmmaking techniques are exploredthroughout, from classic Hollywood's rear projection and matteshots to the fast cuts and wall-to-wall CGI of the contemporaryblockbuster. The book introduces readers to the analog...
Today's non-linear editing systems are equipped with a wide range of color correction tools that were previously only available in dedicated color correction suites. This book shows video editors how to take full advantage of their power. Clear, step-by-step instructions are included for Avid XPress DV, Avid Symphony, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, and more. Beyond that, you'll learn the importance of "selling" the color correction you've achieved to clients, while making sure the client realize...
A survey of the work of the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon. This book examines the innovative work of thirty-four-year-old Scottish artist Douglas Gordon. Gordon is perhaps best known for installations that feature classic films by directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, and Martin Scorsese. In each of these works the original film has been manipulated-slowed down, mirrored by the use of split screen or dual projection, or had its soundtrack altered-to emphasize the artist's own sig...
Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Third 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. 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....
This unique introduction to the techniques of video production emphasizes audience analysis, perception, and basic writing principles. Covering both studio and field production techniques, the text provides comprehensive information on the production industry.
Digital Video Editing continues where Digital Camcorder left off. Intended for the serious hobbyist and no-budget video maker, this book guides readers through the fundamental tasks of movie editing, from planning and librarianship through narrative cutting to the seductive world of visual effects. Throughout, however, the author's focus is trained on the job of storytelling and communication, putting the needs of the movie and its audience above any love of technological novelty for its own s...
Brimming with workflow efficiencies for the experienced editor, The Avid Handbook teaches you the hows and whys of operating the system in order to reach streamlined, creative end solutions. The book emphasizes time-saving techniques, shortcuts, and workflow procedures- the true keys to getting a job done.The book has also been updated to include new information on HD formats and workflows, color-correction and grading capability enhancements, MXF media standardization, and much more.Also new to...
Go beyond the mechanics of Final Cut Express HD 3.5--learn how to edit with it! More than a button-pushing manual--this workshop give you firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing. You develop a working knowledge of this powerful editing application with eleven tutorials that cover each and every essential, including: * setting up your system and understanding the interface * getting your material into FCE and organizing it * slicing, dicing, and organizing clips * editing to bu...
New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943
Upon entering the White House in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced an ailing economy in the throes of the Great Depression and rushed to transform the country through recovery programs and legislative reform. By 1934, he began to send professional photographers to the state of West Virginia to document living conditions and the effects of his New Deal programs. The photographs from the Farm Security Administration Project not only introduced ""America to Americans"", exposing a continu...
In Faces and Phases 2006–14, Zanele Muholi embarks on a journey of “visual activism” to ensure black queer and transgender visibility. Despite South Africa’s progressive Constitution and twenty years of democracy, black lesbians and trans men remain the targets of brutal hate crimes and so-called corrective rapes. Taken over the past eight years, the more than 250 portraits in this book, accompanied by moving testimonies, present a compelling statement about the lives and struggles of these indi...
Media Servers for Lighting Programmers is the reference guide for lighting programmers working with media servers – the show control devices that control and manipulate video, audio, lighting, and projection content that have exploded onto the scene, becoming the industry standard for live event productions, TV, and theatre performances. This book contains all the information you need to know to work effectively with these devices, beginning with coverage of the most common video equipment a lig...
Die Geschlechterinszenierung in Pedro Almod�vars Film "Das Gesetz der Begierde"
by Anica Seidel
Sales of video cameras topped 500,000 in 1991 and are expected to break the one million-per-year mark by 1996. These machines are far from easy to use to any sort of standard. At the moment sales are 40,000 per week: there is a huge market for this book, particularly in the run-up to Christmas. This book is designed to help readers give their finished film that professional feel, whether it be a wedding, a family holiday or something more ambitious such as your own documentary. All the processes...
Attempting to address the photography of children in the late 1990s is a difficult and potentially dangerous exercise. _I Spy_ takes up the challenge by means of a unique combination of new colour and black and white photographs and newly commissioned writing. A book to savour, it addresses two related issues in the contemporary photography of children: how children photograph themselves and how they are portrayed by modern women photographers. It includes, for example, children's photographs of...
This book is intended for people who wish to "break into" the world of directing, and are interested in the field of corporate programmes. It aims to give a useful grounding in directing and provides an insight to the real world of the working director. By dealing at a basic, practical level of what to think and do when directing a corporate video, "Corporate Video Directing" stresses how a corporate director needs to identify the aims and objectives of the video. It also discusses the effect on...