Posts Tagged ‘Edition’

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Screenwriting, 3rd Edition

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Screenwriting, 3rd Edition

  • ISBN13: 9781592577552
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
Now updated and revised…includes a CD-ROM!

Here is an updated and revised edition of the practical and popular guide to realizing the dream of succeeding as a screenwriter. Insider Skip Press gives novice screenwriters a cook’s tour of the industry, then leads them through the process of picking a winning idea, structuring and writing a screenplay, and packaging the final script for sale.

• Includes a CD-ROM packed with sample screenplays, Hollywood contact information, screenwriting software demos, and more
• Chapters on writing for television, including a sample TV script segment

• A new chapter on sources for screenplays and movies, including how Asian films are acquired and adapted

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Screenwriting, 3rd Edition

Teach Yourself Screenwriting, Third Edition

Teach Yourself Screenwriting, Third Edition

  • ISBN13: 9780071621007
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description

Unleash your inner Charlie Kaufman or Sophia Coppola

Teach Yourself Screenwriting is a comprehensive, jargon-free guide for all budding screenwriters. Its aim is not just to guide you through the techniques and skills you need to write for the screen (film and television), but also to give you guidance on how to approach the industry as a whole.

Focusing on every aspect of screenwriting, from how to start the writing process and develop your characters, plot, and structure, to how to break into this highly competitive industry and make a career for yourself as a writer, this book uncovers all.

Teach Yourself Screenwriting, Third Edition

Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition

Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition

  • ISBN13: 9781932907582
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
First published in 2004, this new and updated edition allows filmmakers to tap into the raw power of the YouTube, MySpace, and iTunes. Generate millions of hits for your short films and learn how you can make money by tapping into the power of the Internet.

Grab a camera, make a short film. Show it at Sundance; show it on YouTube. There’s no limit to what you can achieve by starting small and dreaming big. In easy-to-follow steps, short-film guru Kim Adelman shows you how to achieve your dreams by making that killer short film. Bringing together the artist and business sides of filmmaking, this book gives filmmakers the skills to develop unique shorts that are creatively satisfying and can launch careers.

Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films – 2nd edition

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Fourth Edition

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Fourth Edition

Product Description
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video is the definitive book on the subject for beginning filmmakers and students. The book clearly illustrates all of the steps involved in preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both producer and director, and explains how their separate energies must combine to create a successful short film or video, from script to final product. This guide offers extensive examples from award-winning shorts and includes insightful quotes from the filmmakers themselves describing the problems they encountered and how they solved them. The companion website contains useful forms and information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations.

* Unique approach to filmmaking which looks at the process from the director’s and producer’s point of view–each chapter is subdivided into sections covering the producer’s and director’s POV
* Features case studies from award-winning short films that will inspire you to make your own
* A companion website contains useful forms, information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Fourth Edition

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Third Edition

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Third Edition

Product Description
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video is the definitive book on the subject for beginning filmmakers and students. The book clearly illustrates all of the steps involved in preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both producer and director, and explains how their separate energies must combine to create a successful short film or video, from script to final product. This guide offers extensive examples from award-winning shorts and includes insightful quotes from the filmmakers themselves describing the problems they encountered and how they solved them. The companion website contains useful forms and information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations.

* Unique approach which looks at the process from the director’s and producer’s point of view
* Third edition includes information on new HD formats, postproduction, and a new animation example
* A companion website contains useful forms, information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Third Edition

Digital Filmmaking, Second Edition: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures

Digital Filmmaking, Second Edition: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures

  • ISBN13: 9780240804279
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
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-production within a digital filmmaking environment. It examines the new digital methods and techniques that are redefining the filmmaking process, and how the evolution into digital filmmaking can be used to achieve greater creative flexibility as well as cost and time savings. The second edition includes updates and new information, including four new chapters that examine key topics like digital television and high definition television,making films using digital video, 24 P and universal mastering, and digital film projection.

Digital Filmmaking provides a clear overview of the traditional filmmaking process, then goes on to illuminate the ways in which new methods can accomplish old tasks. It 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. Various filmmakers discuss their use of digital techniques to enhance the creative process in the “Industry Viewpoints” sections in each chapter .

Digital Filmmaking, Second Edition: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures