Archive for the ‘Film’ Category
Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques
Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques
- ISBN13: 9780321592019
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This is the only book in the After Effects market to focus exclusively on the creation of visual effects, and is a one-stop resource for anyone who wants in-depth explanations that demystify the realm of visual effects and how they were created, thanks to veteran author Mark Christiansen’s friendly and accessible style. A thoroughly packed, informative read, this masterful guide focuses on explaining the essential concepts, features, and techniques that are key to creating seamless movie-quality visual effects. Users who are comfortable with After Effects will find a helpful review of After Effects fundamentals—managing footage, viewing and editing layers, animating type, and more—so they can learn how to work smarter and more efficiently. Readers of all levels will learn core techniques for effects compositing including color matching, keying, rotoscoping, motion tracking, emulating the camera, and concluding with using expressions in After Effects, written by contributor and expert Dan Ebberts. The final section of the book delves into creative explorations, demonstrating professional effects that readers might want to re-create.
Readers will also find comprehensive coverage of all that’s new and makes this version of Adobe’s effects program such a boon to video pros of all stripes: searchable timelines and projects, Photoshop 3D layers import, the Cartoon effect, Imagineer Systems’ Mocha for Adobe After Effects, improved workflow for mobile devices, and more.
Throughout the book, beautiful full-color examples demonstrate what’s possible, while the companion DVD offers demos of After Effects CS4, sample footage, and software plug-ins.
Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques
Digital Filmmaking – The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures – Illustrated
Digital Filmmaking – The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures – Illustrated
Product Description
Focal Press Softcover, approx size: 8 1/2 x 11 with 267 pages. Digital Filmmaking is the professional “bible” of the new era in filmmaking. This book contains details the procedural, creative, and technical aspects or preproduction, production, and postproduction within a digital filmmaking environment. Readers will understand not only what new digital methods and techniques are redefining the filmmaking process, but also how the evolution into digital filmmaking can be used to achieve greater creative flexibility as well as cost and time savings. Thoroughly explains vital concepts, including digitization, compression, digital compositing, nonlinear editing, and on-set digital production and relates traditional film production and editing processes to those of digital techniques. By far the most comprehensive book on the subject. It details each stage of the traditional filmmaking process is being augmented by digital processes. Featuring interviews with leading filmmakers, including James Cameron and George Lucas, this book details how today’s filmmakers are using digital techniques to enhance their creativity and to realize their imaginations. “What you are about to read encompasses a depth and range of areas in digital filmmaking, with thoughts drawn from some of the best craftsmen in the entertainment industry, people actively working in the digital realm to break down the barriers between the technical and the artistic” James Cameron
Digital Filmmaking – The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures – Illustrated
Short Films: …And How to Make Them
Short Films: …And How to Make Them
- ISBN13: 9781904048817
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The advent of affordable filmmaking equipment and software, combined with the popularity of websites such as Youtube—which encourage the submission of user-created short films—add up to interest in making and viewing shorts being higher than ever. Experienced professionals are interviewed on all aspects of short film production process in this filmmakers’ resource that covers screenwriting, casting, shooting formats, location scouting, soundtracks, computer effects, and how to get the final product distributed. Five award-winning short films from distributor Dazzle Films—including Being Bad and BAFTA-nominated Hotel Infinity—discussed as case studies in the book are featured on a bonus DVD, along with layouts for budget spreadsheets, release forms, contracts, and more.
Adobe After Effects CS4 Classroom in a Book
Adobe After Effects CS4 Classroom in a Book
- ISBN13: 9780321573834
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Visual effects and motion graphics pros of all stripes – from broadcast professionals to VFX supervisors to Web designers who need to produce occasional video segments – will welcome the dramatically accelerated features provided in the brand-new After Effects CS4. This best-selling book has been revised to cover all that’s new in this upgrade: the ability to import 3D layers from Photoshop; the Cartoon effect that converts live-action footage into stylized imagery; Adobe Device Central CS4, which lets you preview and test animations for mobile devices, and more. Designed around a single complex project that’s broken down into manageable lessons, this book-and-DVD package mimics a real-world workflow – but one that readers tackle at their own pace. The DVD contains all the lesson files and footage readers need to complete the lessons.
Digital Movies with QuickTime Pro
Digital Movies with QuickTime Pro
Product Description
Do you have a cinematic story to tell? Are you interested in learning how to make independent productions using the popular and affordable QuickTime Pro? If so, you will find all the instructions you need in this hands-on guide. Digital Movies with QuickTime Pro is the first comprehensive book to teach home computer users (Windows or Mac) how to make digital movies from start to finish. It focuses on how QuickTime Pro can be used to make a feature-length digital movie, using tutorial footage from an actual independent movie shot in video and finished in QuickTime Pro. Geared toward aspiring and intermediate filmmakers, the book begins with comprehensive information on what cinematic effects to employ, and common screenwriting/shooting pitfalls to avoid. In addition, there is coverage of the key bushiness aspects of movie making, including how to form a corporation, develop a schedule, and scout for talent. From there users learn how to shoot cinematic DV footage and use QuickTime Pro as a stand-alone editing tool, or in conjunction with other popular editing software such as iMovie 2, Final Cut Pro 3, Discreet Cleaner 5.1, or Adobe Premiere 6. Once the film is edited, the various delivery methods are covered. QuickTime films can be burned to CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or displayed on a laptop. They can be streamed or downloaded to a Web site, or they can be output as composite video onto VHS. Whatever method your audience needs, you’ll find details on how to deliver your finished work effectively.
Features
* Focuses on how to use QuickTime Pro to create quality digital movies
* Details the best DV and software equipment to buy on a limited budget
* Teaches users how to use QuickTime Pro as a stand alone editing tool or in combination with other popular editing software
* Provides guidance on how to deliver movies on the Web, CD-ROM, DVD, laptop, LCD projector, VHS or film
* Includes a DVD-ROM with film clips that complement the tutorials in the book and sample clips of different DV shooting methods discussed
On the DVD!
* DV files of new footage to use with the tutorials in the book
* Tryout version of Adobe Premiere (Win/Mac)
* Sample QuickTime movies demonstrating various shooting techniques
* Sample production documents, including scripts and author contracts
Whisky – Nectar of the gods!
It’s not often I’ll rave about an ad, but in this case I’m happy to make an exception. It’s one of the best ads I’ve seen in a long time (piper abuse slays me…).
Perhaps I’m biased, Johnnie Black being my favourite tipple of all time and all, but I reckon that any ad that keeps your attention for longer than the 30 second small-barnyard-animal-patience-threshold of the average goggle-box viewer has to be a good ‘un.
Hillman Curtis on Creating Short Films for the Web
Hillman Curtis on Creating Short Films for the Web
Product Description
Legendary Web designer and author Hillman Curtis has always been fascinated by motion and movement. In 2001, inspired in part by the affordability and accessibility of digital video, he began to experiment with short digital films in an effort to reinvigorate his creative spirit and express himself both personally and professionally.
The nine projects Hillman describes in this book, each between 60 seconds and 10 minutes long, draw from a wide variety of creative sources and take various forms—documentaries, music videos, a fictional short film, and a series of video portraits. Each one is unique, yet the goal is always the same: to capture in video the essence of his subject.
Equal parts inspiration, instruction, and personal essay, Hillman Curtis on Creating Short Films for the Web offers an intimate look into the author’s personal filmmaking process: from the ideas and influences that drive the concept and theme of the piece, through the setup, shoot, and assembly of a rough cut, to the final edit. Hillman explains how his flexible, often spontaneous filmmaking style is guided by certain principles—the value of leaving room for serendipity, the freedom found within self-imposed limitations, the importance of collaborating with others, and the possibilities for discovery and revision when reacting to unforeseen accidents.
Throughout the book, Hillman offers advice on filmmaking’s numerous elements, such as direction, sound, editing, and interviewing. Also included is a primer to help you get up and running with your own digital video projects—explaining the equipment you’ll need and providing an overview of the filmmaking process—and an appendix that guides you through building your own Flash video player.
Hillman Curtis is the founder of hillmancurtis.com, a design studio specializing in Web site design, motion graphics, and digital video. Hillman’s clients include Yahoo!, Adobe, RollingStone.com, British Airways, MTV, and Intel. His expert and innovative design solutions have garnered him and his company numerous awards, including the Communication Arts Award of Excellence and the South by Southwest Conference “Best Use of Design” and “Best of Show.” Author of the bestselling Flash Web Design: The Art of Motion Graphics and MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer, Hillman lives in New York City with his family.
Developing Digital Short Films
Developing Digital Short Films
Product Description
The film market is shifting toward traditional desktop technology to create productions…digitally. Unlike traditional film production, though, digital films require producers to employ a different pre-production process. Developing Digital Short Films explores how unique character and set designs, bluescreen ideas, special effects, and simple 2D character animation techniques can be used as narrative devices for telling stories. Part One focuses on generating visual ideas that are ideal for digital production and creating a short film script. Part Two focuses on the visual pre-production of a short film and the issues that go through a filmmaker’s mind as they struggle with how best to present their stories; this includes topics like 101 camera shots, frame composition, developing a visual look and feel, color maps, and creating storyboards and animatics. Part Three explores the different production environments of DV, 2D and 3D, and how they shape the telling of stories based upon the technological strengths of each style. Developing Digital Short Films features a unique step-by-step preproduction process for making any kind of film with lists of brainstorming ideas to help you complete each step.
No-Budget Digital Filmmaking : How to Create Professional Looking Video for Little or No Cash
No-Budget Digital Filmmaking : How to Create Professional Looking Video for Little or No Cash
Product Description
This “must have” tool for aspiring video producers shows how every step of the production process can be cost-minimized, yet still result in a sterling, professional quality product. The author, an independent film producer, also explains how final distribution – via the web, DVD, the festival circuit, or public exhibition – can be handled in an equally inexpensive manner. It includes every major type of video. It thoroughly covers preproduction – the key to shoestring shooting. It talks about how to find free locations, equipment, and actors. It shows creating great lighting for nothing and using digital video, DVD, and streaming media.
No-Budget Digital Filmmaking : How to Create Professional Looking Video for Little or No Cash