Academy Award Winning editor and sound designer Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted and thought-provoking essay on film editing starts with what might be the most basic editing question, "Why do cuts work?" He offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, more...

A unique, illustrated guide to and appraisal of the basic narrative and structural techniques employed, either consciously or intuitively, by all successful filmmakers. Filled with examples from popular flms and television shows, this book seamlessly joins theory and practice in an accessible more...

NEWLY revised and expanded, Film Lighting by Kris Malkewiewicz is an indispensable guide for anyone who uses lightning, whether for fim, video, or still photography.

Lighting is a living, dynamic art influenced by new technologies and the changing styles of leading cinematographers. more...

_Slavko Vorkapich was an artist, special effects artist, film theoretician, director, and montage specialist who is most noted for his montage work on many classic films, including Viva Villa, David Copperfield, San Francisco, The Good Earth, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He was also a highly more...

Every great filmmaker has role models and films which inspired him or her to greater and greater heights. Here is an awe-inspiring guide that takes you into the inner workings of classic scenes, revealing the aspects that make them great and the reasons they have served as inspirations. more...

This is the only book that combines conceptual and practical instruction on creating polished and eloquent images for film and video with the technical know-how to achieve them.

Loaded with hundreds of full-color examples, ";The Filmmaker's Eye"; is a focused, easy-to-reference guide more...

America_s top two gurus of low-budget independent filmmaking are back with the second edition of their popular best-seller.

From script to screen, every aspect of low-budget digital feature production is covered in this updated classic. This new edition provides additional detail on new more...

This book explains how cutting-edge technology and the age-old desire to tell a story have come together in the form of Digital Cinema. Informative and hip, this book addresses the needs of independent filmmakers while also offering a perspective from the agents, producers, distributors, studios, more...

The five C’s is one of the most widely respected books on filmmaking ever published. With the aid of hundreds of photographs and diagrams it clearly and concisely presents the essential concepts and techniques of motion picture camera work and the allied areas of filmmaking with which they more...

Achieve professional results with inexpensive materials from your local hardware store.

A must-have reference for all low-budget and independent filmmakers.

Time-saving tips and techniques with easy-to-follow photos. more...

The directors, editors, cinematographers, and producers behind today’s most thought-provoking nonfiction films reveal the thought processes, methods, and collaborations that have guided their efforts—from project conception to developing, producing, shooting, editing, and releasing some of the more...

More than 200 filmmakers from forty countries are included in this unique and engrossing look at cinema around the world. They are profiled in discussions with Ms. Stone that get to the heart of these artists’ works and underlying views of the world – the political and cultural contexts more...

Filming the Fantastic focuses on the art and craft of visual effects using real case scenarios from a visual effects cameraman. more...

Filmmaking, the definitive resource for filmmakers, blows the doors off the secretive film industry and shows you how to adapt the Hollywood system for your production. Full of thousands of tips, tricks, and techniques from Emmy-winning director Jason Tomaric, Filmmaking systematically takes you more...

A must-read for anyone interested in filmmaking. This enlightening book guides filmmakers toward making the right color selections for their films, and helps movie buffs understand why they feel the way they do while watching movies that incorporate certain colors. more...