Product Description

2008 Edition The authoritative guide to funding, preparing, shooting, lighting, editing, finishing and distributing your film or video

Widely acknowledged as the “bible” of film and video production and used in courses around the world, this indispensable guide to making movies is now updated with the latest advances in high- definition formats. For students and teachers, the professional and the novice filmmaker, this clear and comprehensive handbook remains the reliable reference to all aspects of moviemaking.
• Techniques for making narrative, documentary, corporate, experimental and feature films.
• Working with high-definition and standard-definition digital video formats, including DV, HD, and HDV.
• Extensive coverage of video editing with the latest nonlinear editing systems.
• Thorough grounding in lenses, lighting, sound recording, and sound editing.
• The business aspects of financing and producing movies.

Written by filmmakers for filmmakers, this book will give you the skills you need to take your dreams from script to screen.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12370 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-04
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 832 pages

Review
"Gold-standard technical reference book for filmmakers."
—Boston Globe

"This is an essential book."
—Self-Reliant Filmmaking

"You need this book. Billed as the authoritative guide to filmmaking from fundraising to distribution, the book achieves this in clear, accessible language using current up-to-date information. It's easy to see why this has become a standard text in many film schools. A gilt-edged investment for aspiring and beginning filmmakers and it would not be out of place in the libraries of experienced professionals either."
—James MacGregor, Netribution.co.uk

"This edition of the book is awesome. I don't know how you managed it. Such a mass of information so expertly organized and so clearly presented! Amazing."
—Alfred Guzzetti, Professor, Harvard University

"I was thrilled to find your book, which is a gem. No matter what corner of the subject I poked into, looking for cogent explanations, the Handbook passed with flying colors. So please accept my admiration, appreciation and thanks."
—Pat Jackson, Asst. Prof., San Francisco State Univ. 

About the Author
STEVEN ASCHER has taught filmmaking at Harvard and MIT. His awards include Sundance Grand Jury Prize, a George Foster Peabody Award, and the Prix Italia. He has been nominated for an Oscar.
EDWARD PINCUS founded the film section at MIT and later taught filmmaking at Harvard. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he is the author of the widely used Guide to Filmmaking.

Customer Reviews

If you could only buy one book - consider this one first
I have an entire library of filmmaking books - this one book (esp. the 2008 update) is fantastic - covering every aspect of filmmaking - and not just the technical stuff - even working with actors, directing and some basics of film theory. Of course it is best at the technical side - including HD production and post production editing. Very few of my collection come close to this one for breadth and depth.

This book is Great for catching up on technologies.
I'm a broadcast engineer that has worked with analog systems all his life. I recently started working in a Full SD television studio and in a year or so may want to go HD. This book helps to give you a basic grasp of terminology for the new HD world, as well as tips for every aspect from Pre-production to post- production and even distrubution.

Where's my Bible? OH! Here it is!
I don't have to say much more than that this book is an absolute MUST if you are at all interested in filmmaking! When I was working on my first feature this was what we went back to, CONSTANTLY for advice and information. Primarily it focuses on the technical aspects of production and postproduction, giving you all the information necessary to help you overcome the plethora of overwhelming and seemingly insurmountable obstacles that will undoubtedly arise every single day of your first film shoot.

Great for the beginning Indy Filmmaker who must where many different hats on set, and even great for the experience filmmaker/director/producer as a troubleshooting guide when a situation arises and the solution is not so apparent.

Basically put: buy it!

For some examples of some of the mishaps that can happen during the production of a first feature, check out my blog at http://jokichronicles.blogspot.com tagged under "Antigua Movie."

Pleasant filmmaking!