Setups, angles, and staging for 100 dialogue scenes.
Features over 500 photos and illustrations!

Building on the success of the best-selling first volume, Master Shots, Vol. 2 goes much deeper, revealing the great directors’ secrets for giving life to the standard dialogue more...

The definitive book on film and video lighting: now in full color, with hundreds of illustrations and diagrams. Now includes the ultimate DVD with "behind-the-scenes" video, lighting demonstrations, technical tests, the fundamentals of lighting demos and so much more.

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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...

Make your film or video project sound as good as it looks with this complete training course by audio guru Jay Rose. You get hundreds of professional, real-world techniques that you can employ from preproduction through the final mix. This is a solution-oriented guide with FAQs, how-tos, tips, and more...

Roll! Shells fly overhead as night-scopes capture deadly fire fights with an eerie green hue, a category 5 hurricane devastates the Big Easy, hidden cameras enter a Cambodian village of brothels and a veteran journalist interviews himself throughout his own brain surgery. Part non-fiction drama, more...

David C. Shawger, Associate Professor, Scene Designer at Ball State University, hosts this “how to” video illustrating scene painting techniques in a step-by-step manner that will dramatically improve your sets. more...

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 more...

The new edition of this comprehensive yet succinct guide to planning, shooting, and editing most field and in-studio video productions has been updated to include the latest developments in HD, Digital Video, and equipment. This helpful guide details how to visualize, shoot, and edit coherent more...

Feature samples from top storyboard artists
20 NEW CHAPTERS reflecting latest industry knowledge!
More information on the artistic side of storyboarding
Storyboards from TV shows and films including The Simpsons, The West Wing, Captain Scarlet, seaQuest DSV,The Matrix, and much more
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Learn how to direct television programs, understand complex directing tasks, and learn the fundamentals of studio production procedure in this back-to-basics guide to studio-based productions. Learn about lighting, set, camera operations, floor direction, technical direction, audio, tape, graphics, more...

Whether you’d like to be an art director or already are one, this book contains valuable solutions that will help you get ahead. This comprehensive, thorough professional manual details the set-up of the art department and the day-to-day job duties: scouting for locations, research, executing more...

Communicate your vision, tell your story and plan major scenes with simple, effective storyboarding techniques.

Using sketches of shots from classic films, from silents to the present day, John Hart leads you through the history and evolution of this craft to help you get to grips 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...

This full-color and amply illustrated book is written for film, television, and theatre makeup artists who need to know the basics on how to accomplish flawless makeup applications. It begins with fundamental practices and continues through more complex techniques usually known only by Hollywood more...

From the editors of Videomaker Magazine comes this new edition that you have been waiting for. The Videomaker Guide Digital Video, fourth edition, provides information on all of the latest cutting edge tools and techniques necessary to help you shoot and edit video like the pro's. Learn about more...