Book description
Thanks to the digital revolution, film artists now have a spectacular array of powerful, new, inexpensive tools for creative expression through digital film. The once powerful studios can no longer stifle an artist's creativity. With the power of the Internet, film artists are finding once unimaginable ways to distribute their creations worldwide.
DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish covers all aspects of the new digital video frontier, for amateurs and professionals alike--from the nuts and bolts of timecode and aspect ratio; to framing, lighting, and sound recording; as well as editing, special effects creation, and distribution.
The book is written for filmmakers at varying experience levels--taking an integrated approach to media production, and emphasizing the ways different aspects of the process work together to create a vital work of digital art:
Hands-on detailed examination of the artistic aspects of film and video production
Extensive examples use comprehensive step-by-step exercises for advanced editing techniques
Scenes from successful films illustrate techniques used by professionals
Includes a collection of professionally shot video clips, so the user can read and follow along with sets of structured exercises
Develops a highly refined repertoire of advanced skills in editing, effects creation, title design, and more
Inspires advanced readers to work with the included clips on their own and experiment with new ideas
Written for both Mac and PC users and covers advanced uses of both Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects
Written in an engaging, accessible style, DV Filmmaking provides a solid foundation of tremendous value to a beginner, while addressing the fine points of filmmaking with a level of sophistication, detail, and insight that even the most worldly director or educator can appreciate. The author draws upon his years of experience teaching at the college and graduate level, his extensive professional background as a media producer, and his unmistakable love of cinema to create a text that's not only easy to learn from, but also fun to read.
Table of contents
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DV Filmmaking
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. The Freedom of Digital Video
- 2. Digital Cinematography
- 3. Composing a Shot to Fit Your Output Medium
- 4. Lighting for Digital
- 5. Shooting for Effects
- 6. Working with Specialized Camera Mounts
- 7. Recording Audio, an Overview
- 8. Digital Audio Production Techniques and Strategies
- 9. An Overview of Nonlinear Editing
- 10. Setting Up Your Digital Post Facility
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11. An Overview of Composite Images
- What an Alpha Channel Does
- Importing Images and Adding Them to the Timeline
- Rendering Your Work
- Creating Images in Photoshop for Use in Digital Video
- 12. Compositing Techniques to Make Your Project Look Like It Cost More Than It Really Did
- 13. Artistically Using Still Images
- 14. Creating Titles, Static and Animated
- 15. Bringing Your Title Sequence into Your Project
- 16. Color Correction
- 17. The Concept of Sound Design
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18. Sound Design, from Nuts and Bolts to Fine Tuning
- Refining the Natural Sound in Your Sequence
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Adding Music to Your Film
- Using music to enhance, and not overwhelm, your sound design
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Placing music in your Timeline, and making adjustments
- Adding music to a Final Cut Pro sequence
- Inserting additional audio tracks in Final Cut Pro, and layering music elements
- Adding an audio detail to a Final Cut Pro sequence, and placing it in exactly the right spot
- Transitioning from your opening theme into the main audio of your film, using Final Cut Pro
- Adding music to an After Effects composition
- Layering music elements in After Effects
- Adding an audio detail to an After Effects composition, and placing it in exactly the right spot
- Transitioning from your opening theme into the main audio of your film, using After Effects
- A. The Release Print
- B. The Last Step: Negotiating a Sale (and Why You Should Always Bargain Up)
- Index
- Colophon
Product information
- Title: DV Filmmaking
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2006
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596008482
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