The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 832 pages
• Published by: Plume; New Ed edition September 4, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0452286786
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0452286788
• Book Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.1 x 1.8 inches
• Weighs: 2.4 pounds

Product Review
"Gold-standard technical reference book for filmmakers."
—Boston Globe

"This is an essential book."
—Self-Reliant Filmmaking

"You need this book. Billed as the authoritative guide to filmmaking from fundraising to distribution, the book achieves this in clear, accessible language using current up-to-date information. It's easy to see why this has become a standard text in many film schools. A gilt-edged investment for aspiring and beginning filmmakers and it would not be out of place in the libraries of experienced professionals either."
—James MacGregor, Netribution.co.uk

"This edition of the book is awesome. I don't know how you managed it. Such a mass of information so expertly organized and so clearly presented! Amazing."
—Alfred Guzzetti, Professor, Harvard University

"I was thrilled to find your book, which is a gem. No matter what corner of the subject I poked into, looking for cogent explanations, the Handbook passed with flying colors. So please accept my admiration, appreciation and thanks."
—Pat Jackson, Asst. Prof., San Francisco State Univ. 

Product Description
2008 Edition The authoritative guide to funding, preparing, shooting, lighting, editing, finishing and distributing your film or video

Widely acknowledged as the “bible” of film and video production and used in courses around the world, this indispensable guide to making movies is now updated with the latest advances in high- definition formats. For students and teachers, the professional and the novice filmmaker, this clear and comprehensive handbook remains the reliable reference to all aspects of moviemaking.
• Techniques for making narrative, documentary, corporate, experimental and feature films.
• Working with high-definition and standard-definition digital video formats, including DV, HD, and HDV.
• Extensive coverage of video editing with the latest nonlinear editing systems.
• Thorough grounding in lenses, lighting, sound recording, and sound editing.
• The business aspects of financing and producing movies.

Written by filmmakers for filmmakers, this book will give you the skills you need to take your dreams from script to screen.

Reader Reviews
The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital AgeThis is a remarkably comprehensive collection of all imaginable film and video maker's lore. Most of it is even intelligible to the mid to low tech reader - like myself. Although it often went well beyond my current needs, eventually most or even all of it may prove useful. Depends on how deeply I get into this hobby. Bob Belenky Comment | | (Report this)