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IFP/West Independent Filmmaker's Manual 6 reviews
Nicole Shay LaLoggia
Focal Press, 1999
Excellent Resource
+ Very Good Resource for Creative Producers of Indie Films
+ No Kevin Smith interviews, Pleeeeeze.
+ Useful For Some
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting 173 reviews
Robert Mckee
HarperEntertainment, 1997
Essential reading for any writer
+ Invaluable Resource
+ Let me tell you a Story
+ Bible for screenwriting
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The House That Roone Built: The Inside Story of ABC News 1 review
Marc Gunther
Little Brown & Co (T), 1994
An Enigima
People who follow the television industry closer may rate this book higher than I do. I saw Roone's funeral on C-SPAN and learned a couple of interesting things about him (he never returned phone calls), so when I saw this book at the library I thought I'd read it.
Roone Arledge was an enigima. ...
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Cinematography: Third Edition3 reviews
Kris Malkiewicz, M. David Mullen
Fireside, 2005
perfect for film students
+ Updated classic
this book is great it gets into detail about every thing u can imagen in the film production prosses....well exept for special effects but other than that this is the book for any Film student who wants to have a chance of making it big
it was diliverd fast and the quality perfect
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Arriflex 16SR Book, Third Edition 1 review
Focal Press, 1999
Great book for any AC who uses the SR camera
This book is the bible on the 16SR camera system. It has everything you could want to know about this camera system. If you ever work on a music vide, comercial or low budget film this book is the best piece of equipment to have in your ac bag. It tells you how to do every thing from loading too ...
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Ernest Hemingway's After the Storm: The Story plus the Screenplay and a Commentary 1 review
A. E. Hotchner
Da Capo Press, 2001
Somewhat entertaining, but little substance
This book presents the screenplay for the recent television movie "After the Storm" and the six-page Ernest Hemingway short story on which it was loosely based. The adapter A. E. Hochner also throws in an informative essay on the art of adapting. While this will certainly interest would-be ...
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Arriflex 35 Book, Third Edition1 review
ASC, Jon Fauer
Focal Press, 1999
An outstanding guide to the Arriflex camera system
If you browse through Jon Fauer's latest book, THE ARRIFLEX 35 BOOK, the following statement from page 28 might catch your eye. "This funny looking tool (ARRI K.4.30689.0), which looks like a scissors mated with a platypus, can be..." One might wonder, what kind of technical manual this is? But ...
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American Cinematographer Video Manual, Third Edition2 reviews
American Cinematographer, 2005
Great little book that falls apart.
This is a handy little book which covers many technical aspects of video in one volume. It's been a great resource for my work and I'd recommend it to anyone who is technically minded and is interested in what makes things work and why things are the way they are with digital and analogue video. ...
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Shooting Digital Video10 reviews
ASC, Jon Fauer
Focal Press, 2001
The first book you should read
+ Digital Video explained clearly; easy-to-understand
+ Highly recommended DV Book
I knew little about video production and editing before this book; I looked and looked for a book or two that I could purchase to guide me through the basics of video recording and editing. This book got to the basics and explained them well. I made my equipment purchases after reading this book ...
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Making a Good Script Great63 reviews
Linda Seger
Samuel French, 1994
Polish Your Hollywood Star
+ A must read for all screenwriters.
+ Do you really want to write screenplays?
+ Helpful
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DVCAM: A Practical Guide to the Professional System2 reviews
Jon Fauer
Focal Press, 2001
Great book, full of practical iunformation
+ Another great addition to using digital-video
Jon Fauer, who's film-camera books have set a standard in the industry, has written his second video-related book. This one too is full of very practical information, and answers those nagging questions about differences between DV and the DVCAM format. No matter what level of production experience ...
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On Directing Film25 reviews
David Mamet
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992
great great book
+ A small mega book!
+ Excellent Concise Guide
+ Makes it's point succintly
+ Good place to start to get a few basic points
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American Cinematographer Manual, Ninth Edition 2 Vol Set3 reviews
Stephen Burum
American Society Of Cinematographers, 2004
The Cinematographer's Bible
+ Absolutely Invaluable!
+ Hey, it's the "Cinematographer's Bible", you can't do without
Also known as "The Cinematographers Bible", this thick hand-sized pocket book is an absolute must for anybody who owns or uses a 16mm, Super 16mm, 35mm, Super 35mm or 70mm motion picture camera (movie cameras). IT WILL NOT TEACH YOU CINEMATOGRAPHY! It is a technical manual to be used when shooting ...
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Michael Caine - Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (The Applause Acting Series) Revised Expanded ...22 reviews
Michael Caine
Applause Books, 2000
Life between "Action" and "Cut"
+ For What It Is, Wonderful--but not really an acting book
+ Sad commentary on pre-feminist times
+ listen to what the man says...
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Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting 88 reviews
Syd Field
Delta, 2005
Essential Reading for Screenwriters
+ Speedy Delivery
+ A complete guide...
+ I'm Ready for Hollywood
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The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age26 reviews
Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus
Plume, 1999
Great Book with comprehensive coverage
+ Out of date, but still a good start
+ Bravo!!! The Filmmaker's Handbook is EXCELLENT!!!
+ cinema student
+ the filmmaker's handbook
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Aristotle on Poetics1 review
Aristotle
St. Augustine's Press, 2002
Tragedy Teaches Us Something About Life
I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle.
Poetry appeals to human passions and emotions. Powerful beautiful language and metaphor really appeal to emotion. This idea really disturbed Plato, who takes on Homer in the Republic. Plato thought that early Greek poetry portrays a dark ...
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Movie Money: Understanding Hollywood's (Creative) Accounting Practices, 2nd ed.2 reviews
Bill Daniels, David Leedy, ...
Silman-James Press, 2006
Follow the Money!
+ Serious stuff if you are serious about distribution
This book will help anyone who desires to learn how their box office ticket dollars are spent. The authors take you step by step through a standard profit participation agreement. I feel the authors are not as aggressive as they should be hollywood's unethical "creative accounting". The ...
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Audition53 reviews
Michael Shurtleff
Bantam, 1980
Must read for the actor
+ AdaptedToKnowledge
+ A Must Read
+ Fantastically Helpful
+ Totally necessary for any actors library
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Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers6 reviews
Dennis Schaefer, Larry Salvato
University of California Press, 1986
Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!
+ Masters of Light......
+ Personal Mastery
+ Revealing, intimate conversations.
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