Digital Moviemaking, International Edition

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DIGITAL MOVIEMAKING, International Edition guides students of any level through the technical and aesthetic aspects of moviemaking by highlighting the decisions that are made throughout the creative process as well as the strategies filmmakers develop to bring their vision to life. Throughout the text, author Lynn S. Gross emphasizes the directorial and storytelling functions of narrative film and beyond-from the forethought and care required for each facet of production to the technical information that anyone engaged in making movies should know. This edition reflects the rapidly-evolving nature of digital cinema, with new information on cutting-edge equipment, techniques, and formats that places students at the forefront of moviemaking today.

Larry Ward is a professor of radio-TV-film at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches primarily film and television production and film history and aesthetics. While at the university, he has produced hundreds of hours of sports and public affairs programming broadcast and cablecast in the Los Angeles'Orange County area. He was producer director for "The Science Report", a series of 20-minute educational tapes for sixth-grade students, funded by Union Oil and the Placentia School District. Before that he was director-editor for "The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War", a one-hour documentary film for Post'Newsweek Television Productions, and "Lowell Thomas Remembers I and II," a series for public broadcasting. He has published a number of articles and papers and one other book, "The Motion Picture Goes to War." He has also served as the western regional coordinator for the Motion Picture Academy's Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Contest. He has a B.A. from William Jewell College and an M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Iowa. Lynne Gross has taught radio-television production and theory courses at California State University, Fullerton (where she was Vice Chair of the Communications Department), Pepperdine University, Loyola Marymount University, UCLA, USC, and Long Beach City College. She is currently Associate Producer for the instructional video series "Journeys Below the Line" and in the past was Program Director for Valley Cable TV. She has served as Producer for several hundred television programs, including the series "From Chant to Chance" for public television, "Effective Living" for KABC, and "Surveying the Universe" for KHJ-TV. Her consulting work includes projects for Children's Broadcasting Corporation, RKO, KCET, CBS, the Olympics, Visa, and the Iowa State Board of Regents. In addition to her teaching and production work, Professor Gross has written eleven other books, as well as numerous journal and magazine articles, while remaining active in many professional organizations-including terms as a Governor of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and President of the Broadcast Education Association. She has received numerous professional awards, including the Rosebud Award for Outstanding Media Arts Professor in the California State University System, the Frank Stanton Fellow for Distinguished Contribution to Electronic Media Education from the International Radio and Television Society, and the Distinguished Education Service Award from the BEA.

1. Overview of Moviemaking. 2. Planning the Movie. 3. Cameras. 4. Approaches to Image Capturing. 5. Lighting. 6. Approaches to Lighting. 7. Microphones and Recorders. 8. Approaches to Sound Recording. 9. Directing. 10. Editing. 11. Approaches to Editing. 12. Enhanced Sound and Picture. 13. Approaches to Enhanced Sound and Picture. 14. The Final Stages of Moviemaking. Glossary. Index.