The Five C’s of Cinematography: Motion Picture Filming Techniques (Paperback)
by Joseph V. Mascelli
ISBN: 187950541X
Price: USD 18.82
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A veteran cinematographer tells you practically everything you need to know about cinematography. [Read more →]
Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need (Paperback)
by Blake Snyder
ISBN: 1932907009
Price: USD 13.41
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A successful screenwriter gives eight chapters of important pointers for writing your screenplay. The book is written from the perspective of marketing your script to a producer from page one. [Read more →]
The DV Rebel’s Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap (Paperback)
by Stu Maschwitz
ISBN: 0321413644
Price: USD 31.49
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A guide to doing things with your indie film that all other books tell you not to do. You will learn the basics of color correction, the basics of safely using guns, the basics of story, more than the basics of production value, and much more. [Read more →]
Making a Good Script Great (Paperback)
by Linda Seger
ISBN: 0573699216
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Dr. Linda Seger, a professional script consultant, breaks down the three act structure. She tells you how to rewrite your good script and make it great. The first few chapters help you write the first draft. [Read more →]
You’re halfway through pre-production and the storyboards just don’t look right, even though you’ve re-done them three times.
The script isn’t working. Try what you may, it just isn’t working.
A list of props that need to be made stares you in the face. What should they look like? Your brain refuses to function.
These are places when it is easiest to say, “Forget this, I’m going to go read a book.” True, you could plunge on ahead and make yourself do them, but, for goodness sake, it’s not FUN! Isn’t this life-consuming production we call amateur movie-making supposed to be fun? If not fun, at least semi-enjoyable. I mean, who wants to burst into tears over a sketch of a medieval table? (And no, I have not personally done that one. Yet.) [Read more →]
