The Digital Filmmaking Handbook

The Digital Filmmaking Handbook, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive digital filmmaking resource for everyoneufrom beginners to professionals. This book guides you through the modern digital filmmaking workflow from initial concept to finished project and shows you all the tools that will make the process run smoothly and easily. Organized into three parts, just like a film shoot, the book covers preproduction, production, and postproduction. In the preproduction section, you'll go through the decisions necessary to start shooting: writing, technology basics, planning, scheduling, storyboarding, set design, and choosing a camera. Production covers the principal shoot of your project: lighting, using the camera, shooting, and recording production sound. And postproduction wraps up with workstations and equipment, organizing and media management, editing, sound design, color correction, titles, special effects, and delivery of the finished product.

Completely revised to cover all the latest digital video technology and innovations, this fourth edition includes information on HD video, shooting with digital SLR cameras, workflows for tapeless recording, and much more. The Digital Filmmaking Handbook, Fourth Edition will help you navigate the ever-changing developments of new filmmaking technology while keeping the big picture in mind: storytelling.

Sonja Schenk is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and producer. As a filmmaker, she directed the feature-length comedy, The Olivia Experiment, and has written several screenplays. Her short films have been shown in film festivals and galleries across the country. Her producing credits include several prominent television series, including The Bachelor, High School Reunion, and others. She has edited scripted feature films shown at film festivals such as Sundance and documentaries for European and American television. She is also the author of an editing handbook, Digital Nonlinear Desktop Editing, and has contributed many articles on filmmaking and technology to various publications.
Ben Long is a San Francisco-based photographer, videographer, and writer. The author of over a dozen books on digital photography and digital video, lie has been a longtime contributor to many magazines, including Mac Week, Mac User, Mac World UK, and more. He is currently a senior contributing editor for Macworld magazine, a senior editor at CreacivePro.com, and has created several photography instruction courses for Lynda.com. With experience in every aspect of video production, Long's video clients have included Global Business Network, Blue Note Records, and 20th Century Fox. His videos have played around the world, on Broadway, and up and down the Hudson river accompanied by acclaimed musician Don Byron. He also dabbles in computer programming, and has written image editing utilities that are in use in the Smithsonian, the British Museum, and the White House.