The Five Essential Steps in Digital Video [Paperback]

Denise Ohio (Author)

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Publication Date: December 21, 2001

Five Essential Steps in Digital Video is packed full of information for the novice to the seasoned producer. It covers the basics of DV technology and choosing the right equipment to planning your budget, digitizing your own music, and acquiring resources online. Selling a project has also been transformed by the Internet and the author explains which means of distribution would be the best for the reader's project.

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Five Essential Steps in Digital Video is packed full of information for the novice to the seasoned producer. It covers the basics of DV technology and choosing the right equipment to planning your budget, digitizing your own music, and acquiring resources online. Selling a project has also been transformed by the Internet and the author explains which means of distribution would be the best for the reader's project.

About the Author

Denise Ohio is a writer, producer, director, DP, location audio technician, editor, and composer, and often does all of these jobs on her DV projects. In 1996, she made one of the first digital video features in the world. Amazing World has screened in film festivals in Montevideo, Montreal, Toronto, Paris, London, and Philadelphia. Ohio sold the home video rights to Northern Arts/Naiad in 1997 and pay-per-view rights in August 2000.

Between gigs as a marketing consultant, writer, DP, and camera operator, Ohio made Family Business, a documentary. Working as producer, director, DP, location audio mixer, grip, gaffer, editor, and soundtrack composer on the project, she shot DV and 16mm, and handled postproduction in her home video-editing suite.

In addition to making movies, she is a published novelist and has been compared to William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams. Currently, she is in preproduction on her next documentary/book project, Verona.

To find out more about her work, please visit http://www.holytoledo.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 848 pages
• Publisher: Que; Pap/DVD edition (December 21, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789726157
• ISBN-13: 978-0789726155
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #380,044 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From soup to nuts--an excellent primer & reference, May 10, 2002

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adecat - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Five Essential Steps in Digital Video (Paperback)

Eight-hundred pages divided by thirty bucks is less than 4 cents a page, and it's a rare page that doesn't return its value many times over in this top-notch tour through every major (and many minor) aspect(s) of the filmmaking process.

The breadth of Denise Ohio's knowledge is astonishing--she's clearly had assistance and generously credits key sources--but her ability to boil information down and present it with effervescent wit makes "Five Essential Steps" an invaluable manual for videomakers at all levels who've heard the call to "put on a show."

Whatever your budget or level of expertise (okay, I'd say the ideal reader would be at an intermediate level, with some production experience under the belt) this book provides an overview of the various phases (Development, Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production & Distribution), as well as an 'underview' chock-full of nuggets drawn from the experience of its remarkably versatile author. Even if you never intend to pitch the script, hang the lights, spot the audio, or negotiate the sync license yourself, any digital videomaker in the DIY era owes it to him/herself to understand how the process works from start to finish. For those who do intend to put on that multi-brimmed hat, consider this comprehensive primer/reference first money well-spent.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A superb reference for the seasoned producer, March 23, 2002

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Five Essential Steps in Digital Video (Paperback)

The inspiration for Five Essential Steps In Digital Video: The Do It Yourself Guide To Shooting And Producing Your Own Video sprang from a theme of five frequently asked questions posed to digital video expert Denise Ohio. The questions she typically receives are based on what she calls Five Steps: Development: Hunting and Gathering; Preproduction: People, Places, and Things; Production: Action!; Postproduction: Directing the Movie; and Selling: How to Keep Your Shirt Five Essential Steps In Digital Video is packed full of information for the novice and will serve as a superb reference for the seasoned producer. Denise Ohio covers the basics of DV technology and choosing the right equipment to planning your budget, digitizing your own music, and acquiring resources online. Selling a project has also been transformed by the Internet and Denise Ohio accessibly surveys and explains which means of distribution would be the best for the reader's project. Highly recommended with User Level classification of: Beginner to Intermediate. 800 pp.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This one books covers everything!, October 16, 2002

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VINCE V FESALBON (Edmonds, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Five Essential Steps in Digital Video (Paperback)

This book is very remarkable in that it covers in ONE VOLUME virtually every aspect involved in digital moviemaking--from how to operate equipment to navigating the business and legal aspects of being a movie producer. If you could only buy one book to learn moviemaking, this would be the book.