Digital Moviemaking (with InfoTrac) - Softcover

Gross, Lynne S.; Ward, Larry W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534562914 ISBN 13: 9780534562915

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

This widely praised text covers planning, shooting, editing, and distributing movies. The authors ensure that students understand why the planning process is essential. Gross and Ward over cameras, lights, and sound equipment with some chapters detailing operational skills and others dealing with aesthetics. The text features a chapter devoted to directing, and it covers the mechanics and aesthetics of editing and incorporating visual effects. Students are not only introduced to the concepts and mechanics of filmmaking but are also given ideas of what to do with their movies once they are completed.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"The principle reason for adopting this text was its approach to teaching film production while allowing for the use of video equipment, and mostly emphasizing actual film production techniques along with the importance of storytelling."

"The book has a good mix between discussions of general procedures and production details."

"I adopted DIGITAL MOVIEMAKING four of five years ago primarily because of its excellent coverage of preproduction. I like the way students are walked through the essential preproduction activities... Students can see at a glance all the work involved in preproduction and infer that lots of collaborative activities must proceed simultaneously during this important phase of the production process."

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0534562914
• ISBN 13: 9780534562915
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 288