Understanding the language of the lens is key for today’s filmmakers andcinematographers. Lenses and the different images they produce have the powerto propel story, evoke dramatic/emotional responses
Create visually-stunning backgrounds that stand out. Visual Storytelling with Color and Light teaches background and concept designers in animation and film the skills needed to create visually stunn
This expanded, updated, and revised third edition of Lorene Wales’s The Complete Guide to Film and Digital Production offers a comprehensive introduction to the positions/roles, procedures, and logist
Acting for the Stage: Succeeding as a Creative Professional is a highly accessible guide to the business of theater acting, written for those interested in pursuing acting as a profession. This book i
Digital Filmmaking has been called the bible for professional filmmakers in the digital age. It details all of the procedural, creative, and technical aspects of pre-production, production, and post-
This expanded, updated, and revised third edition of Lorene Wales’s The Complete Guide to Film and Digital Production offers a comprehensive introduction to the positions/roles, procedures, and logist
The Filmmaker's Guide to Final Cut Pro Workflow is the comprehensive roadmap to affordable postproduction workflow using Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools, and Pro Tools. Illuminating workflow and the inter
Don’t let your indie film be sabotaged by bad sound! One of the weakest technical aspects of a low or no-budget short or feature film is usually the sound, and in Sound Design for Low and No Budget Fi
Recording Studio Design, Fourth Edition explains the key principles of successful studio design and construction using the straightforward language and the use of practical examples appreciated by rea
Directing for the Screen: Succeeding as a Creative Professional includes essays written by and interviews with directors, producers, development executives, and professors, exploring the business side
Writing for the Screen: Succeeding as a Creative Professional includes essays written by and interviews with working screenwriters, producers, directors, and film professors, exploring the business si
This book introduces theater planning to students and practitioners of each field, and provides a detailed guide to the process and the technical requirements particular to theater buildings. Part I i
Directing for the Screen: Succeeding as a Creative Professional includes essays written by and interviews with directors, producers, development executives, and professors, exploring the business side
Acting for the Stage: Succeeding as a Creative Professional is a highly accessible guide to the business of theater acting, written for those interested in pursuing acting as a profession. This book i
Recording Studio Design, Fourth Edition explains the key principles of successful studio design and construction using the straightforward language and the use of practical examples appreciated by rea
Writing for the Screen: Succeeding as a Creative Professional includes essays written by and interviews with working screenwriters, producers, directors, and film professors, exploring the business si
In Advanced Visual Effects Compositing: Techniques for Working with Problematic Footage, tackle difficult visual effect composites in layer-based and node-based compositing programs.In this book, indu
Essential Dramaturgy provides a concrete way to approach the work of a dramaturg. It explores ways to refine the process of defining, evaluating, and communicating that are essential to effective dram
Essential Dramaturgy provides a concrete way to approach the work of a dramaturg. It explores ways to refine the process of defining, evaluating, and communicating that are essential to effective dram
Understand the core concepts and skills of multimedia production and digital storytelling using text, graphics, photographs, sound, motion, and video. Then, put it all together using the skills that y
Understand the core concepts and skills of multimedia production and digital storytelling using text, graphics, photographs, sound, motion, and video. Then, put it all together using the skills that y
In Production House Cinema: Starting and Running Your Own Cinematic Storytelling Business, renowned video storyteller Kurt Lancaster offers both students and professionals a practical guide to startin
Sound Systems: Design and Optimization provides an accessible and unique perspective on the behavior of sound systems in the practical world. The third edition reflects current trends in the audio fie
Sound Systems: Design and Optimization provides an accessible and unique perspective on the behavior of sound systems in the practical world. The third edition reflects current trends in the audio fie
Adobe’s Lightroom has emerged as a must-have software due to its powerful editing tools and time saving organizational capabilities but how you establish a personalized, creative workflow that optimiz
The work done on a play before the first rehearsal, the first group reading or even the before the cast have met, can be crucial to the success of a production. Directors and dramaturgs must know how
Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredients for success in the growing global documentary marketplace: storytelling. This pract
Although animators often break the laws of physics for comedic or dramatic effect, achieving believable motion in animation requires an understanding of physics that most of us missed out on in art sc
The Art of Unarmed Stage Combat is your guide to the principles and techniques of theatrical violence, combining detailed discussions of the mechanics of stage fighting with the nuances of acting deci
Record Label Marketing, Third Edition is the essential resource to help you understand how recorded music is professionally marketed.Fully updated to reflect current trends in the industry, this editi
Rigging for Games: A Primer for Technical Artists Using Maya and Python is not just another step-by-step manual of loosely related tutorials. Using characters from the video gameTin, it takes you thro
Essentials of Period Style: A Sourcebook for Stage and Production Designers covers the visual, social, and political dynamics of multiple epochs and cultures and discusses how these trends affect the
The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publi
Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers teaches the skills of script analysis using a formalist approach that examines the written part of a play to gauge how the play should be performed
