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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
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Considered by many to be the definitive book on the subject, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Second Edition 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 videoall the way from script to final product. This guide offers extensive examples from two award-winning short narrative films (Lunch Date and Truman) and one short documentary (Mirror Mirror), and includes insightful quotes from the filmmakers themselves describing the problems they encountered and how they solved them.
This edition expands on the director's role in pre-visualizing a project, aided by the addition of more than 50 new photos and illustrations. Issues such as storyboarding, lighting, and composition are addressed in detail. Other additions and enhancements include a discussion of the evolving role of digital technology on all aspects of production from script to screen.
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Second Edition is accompanied by a companion website (www.focalpress.com/companions) containing useful forms and information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations.
Whether you're a student or an independent filmmaker, this practical guide will demystify the process, and help you to develop and sharpen your skills as you tackle the challenges of making a short film or video.
Unique approach looks at the process from both the producer and the director's point of view
This edition includes significant revisions and updates to the study of post-production, and the evolving role of digital technology
Companion website offers useful forms plus information on grants and financing sources, distributors, internet sources, and more
Customer Reviews:
An Excellent Starter Book.......2002-09-05
For a person curious about creating a short film, this book will help you. This book breaks down the function and importance of each individual person involved in the making of a short film, how certain problems were encountered and resolved, provides websites for other film affiliated tools and/or questions and answers, and points you to certain short films which can inspire you. A plus for anyone willing to get into movie production on short films.
Here is a excellent and important textbook that delivers!!.......1998-12-29
As an actor, interested in all aspects of film, I cannot imagine a more detailed and succinct introduction to this world. David Irving and Peter Rea have found a way to clarify all the difficult areas of film direction and production in one small wonderful book. All film students will be grateful.
Here is a excellent and important textbook that delivers!!.......1998-12-29
As an actor, interested in all aspects of film, I cannot imagine a more detailed and succinct introduction to this world. David Irving and Peter Rea have found a way to clarify all the difficult areas of film direction and production in one small wonderful book. All film students will be grateful.
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• Accompanying DVD of thirty short films offers an instructive mini film festival
• Shows beginners how to make meaningful films without fancy equipment
• Great for film students and independent filmmakers
Want to make an art film, a documentary, a video biography? Here's how to create real movies using consumer digital video format—without spending a lot of money or time. Author Jim Piper has taught filmmaking for more than thirty years—and along with his technical expertise, he brings entertaining anecdotes and great examples. His descriptions of more than one hundred student films, illustrated with three hundred stills, offer inspiration for beginners, and the accompanying DVD showcases thirty examples that comprise an intriguing and instructive mini film festival. From equipment to exercises to effects, from planning the story to casting, shooting, and editing the movie, everything a budding filmmaker needs to know and understand is here.
Customer Reviews:
For High Shoolers, not for anyone over 20!.......2007-03-26
Film students made these films? Try High School students!
The accompanying DVD sucks!! Yeah, they show some of the ideas presented in the book, but you could also have a list of movies and particular scenes to watch for.
The DVD is VERY crudely put together. The rudimentary DVD menu is not fully funcional, annoying.
The DVD also has encoded some of the movies poorly, so its hard to fast-forward through them. They also skip a little.
Then there's the quality of the movies themselves. They are crap!
Don't waste your time or money.
Surveying the purpose and problems involved.......2006-11-06
Plenty of books give all the basics of how to make a film of any size - but MAKING SHORT FILMS goes a step further in also surveying the purpose and problems involved. From whether or not to write a script and how to develop it to composing shots, using editing programs on computers, and creating special effects, there are plenty of tips paired with hands-on application projects perfect for newcomers. The DVD in back offers thirty completed short films by students and beginners, for further inspiration and example.
Diane C. Donovan
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May be Good for High Schoolers .... Don't Get Your Hopes Up.......2006-10-19
If you are looking for serious insight into making short films or if you insist on craft and production values, keep walking. This book should be targeted to high-schoolers or hobbyists without serious expectations. If your idea of short-film making means sneaking your dad's camcorder out for an afternoon of hi-jinks with your friends, you may find this amusing. However, if you want to make a serious short for a festival or if you wish to look seriously at the art form, pass this one by.-
Excellent book for the beginning filmmaker.......2006-07-15
I am a film study teacher at the high school level, and I have to say that this book provides some excellent, hands-on examples and techniques for making successful short films. I was really impressed with the accompanying DVD, which included a variety of shorts to use as models. I plan on using the starter film ideas for my beginning film study students. It is so difficult to derive ideas for short films, but these starters provide excellent scenarios to creatively explore. At under $20.00, this is a steal. Thanks for a great resource, Jim.
Book Description
Brings together the artistic and business sides of filmmaking.
Customer Reviews:
A Must Have Book for the Filmmaker.......2007-03-31
If you want the absolute best book on filmmaking; this is it. Kim Adelman knows her stuff. She gives testimonials from film festival coordinators that are worth more than the price of the book if you are into submitting your films to festivals. I also really enjoyed the overview of the different types of media and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
I originally picked up this book out of frustration with some of the other titles I had purchased and was pleasantly surprised with its contents. The book is extremely dense (lots of words per page) and is well worth the cover price. I keep it by my side almost constantly--reading whenever I get a chance.
Seriously, if you want the the book you have been looking for and can't find...this is the one. I suggest getting a sleep aid because once you pick it up, you may not be able to put it back down. I refer to it constantly. It is truly informative and inspiring.
Useful.......2006-09-16
I think the criticisms on this page are reasonable, but I have found this to be a useful book:
It covers pre through marketing. I disagree with some of what she says, but I've also found it useful to return to the book as I enter each stage of production on my 4th short. It's helped to refocus me a few times.
Definitely worth the price........2005-12-18
This book is written in a breezy style, yet contains enough varied information about the world of short films to make it well worth the price. I liked some of the "top ten" lists, such as great shorts to see, and tips for getting great performances from actors. This is not in-depth stuff, but the value of a book like this is that you can read it quickly and be reminded of a great number of essential things otherwise forgotten...or never learned.
Very disappointing.......2005-10-27
This book is very poorly written and lacks of any useful information. I am shocked that it was ever even published. One example here: On fund raising, her suggestion is "Do a Garage Sale/Sell your stuff on ebay/lemonade stand". As a veteran filmmaker I am deeply disappointed and find some reviewers here extrememly misleading and dishonest.
Moderately useful book.......2005-08-05
I found this book to be of limited value. There is some good techinical information on dealing with SAG and other industry stuff but I found it wildly lacking in other areas. Kim Adelman is a Producer of short films as far as I know she hasn't actually got behind the camera. So the book wasn't very good with the whole being creative part nor paticularly inspiring. She makes everything seem real expensive and a 26 man crew to make a short! Robert Rodriguez would be turning over in his grave if he were dead. I think aspiring film makers are better off reading a "Rebel without a Crew" first make few films ,learn by doing, then add this book so they can understand how a producer thinks.
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...valuable and fascinating....marvelous insight into the frantic schedules and cost-cutting that dictated the production style of the Columbia two-reelers from the 1930s to the late Fifties. --FILMFAX
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Charles M. Schulz has been cartooning for an astonishing 50 years (the "Peanuts" strip itself debuted October 2, 1950, but he drew an earlier incarnation called "Li'l Folks" before that). Peanuts: A Golden Celebration is a remarkable collection of strips spanning that time period. Readers get to see the first appearance of Linus, Marcy, Pigpen, and Woodstock, and even the momentous first time Lucy holds a football for Charlie Brown to kick. Schulz comments on the cartoons and his inspirations via notes in the margin, ranging from boyhood stories about his father (a barber, just like Charlie Brown's) to an account of the time the narcolepsy experts at Stanford University expressed concerns over Peppermint Patty's constant sleeping in class. One of the most interesting inclusions is that of several letters of complaint, ranging from readers whose religious sensibilities have been offended to a 1969 missive from Schulz's own syndicate asking him not to depict Franklin in the same school as the white students anymore. Naturally, the much-loved "Peanuts" holiday specials are covered, as is the musical adaptation You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, but it's the strips that really make the book. Readers can follow the evolution of Schulz's drawing style--deliberately less realistic as the years went on--and even check out a few panels drawn by Schulz's own cartooning heroes. This is a terrific compilation that serves well both as a chronicle of popular culture and as just a really funny collection of comic strips. Don't wait for the Great Pumpkin to bring you one. --Ali Davis
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Will Charlie Brown ever get to kick the footballs? Will Schroeder finally return Lucy's love? Will Linus give up his security blanket? Will Peppermint Party ever pass a test? And, most importantly will Snoopy--that canine literary ace--ever be published?
"To take a blank piece of paper and draw characters that people love and worry about is extremely satisfying. It really does not matter what you are called or where your work is placed as long as it brings some kind of joy to some person some place." -- Charles Schulz
Peanuts: A Golden Celebration honors the momentous 50th anniversary of Charlie Brown and the gang with over 1,000 carefully selected strips that tell the story of Peanutslike no other book before. In Schulz's own words we learn how he came to create the world's most popular comic strip characters from nostalgic and sometimes painful memories of growing up--such as the agony of classroom Valentine exchange and the longing for a little red-haired girl.
From the debut of Peanuts on October 2, 1950, to the golden jubilee, here are fifty years of the favorite episodes and the..."firsts," such as the first time Lucy pulled the football away from Charlie Brown. Included are scenes from the beloved Charlie Brown television. specials and the latest revival of the Broadway musical, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
These are the strips and events that have made Peanuts an awesome phenomenon, appearing in 2,600 newspapers worldwide everyday. Not bad for a round-headed kid called Charlie Brown.
Let the celebration begin!
Customer Reviews:
This has "cherished treasure" written all over it..........2007-03-27
There are far more comprehensive collections out there. But, if you want a large, beautifully presented coffee-table sized book with many, many strips from different Peanuts eras, then this is it. It is true that the cartoons are a bit gray (one reviewer's criticism), but this simply sets them off from the large, white pages of the book itself. It actually enhances the atmosphere for me.
I love the text in the margins where Mr. Shulz explains a little something about the characters. Very charming. I also love seeing the very first strip in which various characters appeared.
Many of the multi-strip storylines have been truncated. This is inevitable given the book's purpose. As I said, there are more complete collections out there. What you get is an overview that takes you beyond any one time-frame. And yes, the strips are funny, even if I know there is more to a particular story.
The front matter is also great: a photo of THE barbershop-apartment where Mr. Shulz lived, just for example. Lots of other great stuff.
I paid double the Amazon price because I bought it here in Tokyo...and it is worth every penny (or yen!).
Together with "Peanuts, The Art of Charles M. Shulz", this is my favorite Peanuts book.
Buy it now. :-)
classic time.......2006-09-23
charles schulz is truly a classic and is missed everyday..........from 1950---2000....peanuts was the best comic strip ever..........
Great Book.......2006-08-17
This book is a true delight for the Peanut enthusiast! Not only do you get the lovable comic strips but also unknown history about Charles Shultz and the Peanuts thru tellings and actual letters from both fans and non-fans! Great to add to any collection!
One of the best Peanuts collections ever!.......2006-07-21
This is probably one of the best Peanuts collections ever! I love them so much! Most of the comic strips are in black and white, while the others (especially the Sunday strips) are in vivid color. This book is so funny! Whenever I was feeling low and depressed, I would pull this huge book out, flip to any random page, and it would instantly make me feel better!
Buy this book, or else your love for Peanuts will be incomplete!
Good Grief: A Golden Celebration for a Gem of An Artist!!.......2004-08-04
When Peanuts made it's debut as a new comic strip in 1950, the world of the funny pages was changed forever. Charles Schultz was argueably the greatest and most certainly the most influential strip artist of all time, and Peanuts totally changed the perception of the medium, appealing to the entire family rather than mostly to adults, and broadening and deepening the intellectual plane on which the art takes form. Schultz, who writes most of the copy in this book himself and includes a short bio and some wonderful running commentary throughout, inadvertantly proves how revolutionary Peanuts was by including some of the strips which influenced him while growing up. These comics, from Krazy Kat to Wash Tubbs, are mildly amusing at best, woefully inferior at worst, and in virtually all cases have failed to stand the test of time. Peanuts, however, has never dated, and most of the strips still are very readable half a century after original publication. An excellent collection, to be sure, and one which belongs on any comic fan's shelf. So why only four stars? Because this collection celebrates Schultz's entire career (at the time), from 1950 to 1999, when in fact, his very best and most innovative work was produced during a comparatively narrow time frame, from about 1954 or so to 1966. Luckily, some of the most famous series of strips are represented here, from Snoopy's famous impressions of other characters (including a particularly hilarious Beethoven) to Charlie Brown's longing for the Little Red Haired Girl (any person who has ever been in love can relate to that one.) In 1966, however, Charles Schultz produced his most famous series of cartoons dealing with Snoopy and The Red Baron, a Walter Mitty-esque idea so brilliant, that neither he nor any other cartoonist has been able to top it since. From that point, Peanuts began declining in quality from sheer brilliance down to mere excellence; Snoopy in particular was never the same wonderful dog we had all grown to know and love. (Remember the endless series of strips from about fifteen years ago that centered on Snoopy's love of cookies? It seemed as if he could think of nothing else for two years or more!) The only character who seemed to grow and mature in these later years was Charlie Brown himself; it was nice to see him have successful encounters with girls, become a summer-camp hero (albeit with a paper bag over his head!) and actually WIN A BALL GAME!!! Luckily for us, Schultz still continued to draw the strip so well that it is still one of the most popular comics in the country several years after his death. In short, a very good collection, one that will hopefully lead the reader to search out and find individual collections of the glory years of Peanuts when Schultz was truly at his best. Good Grief, indeed!!!
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