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Gaffers, Grips, and Best Boys

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As far as I know there are two books on the subject, the other being William E. Hines' "Job Descriptions for Film, Video & CGI". From those two this book is certainly more prosa. Every major field of movie production is described through kind of essays written from industry insiders. Although the book is by no means an encyclopedia, the reader gets a good idea what those jobs really are about. If you want some insights instead of concise descriptions, buy this book.

_Gaffers, Grips and Best Boys_ is a great title. Unfortunately the title is misleading. The fine print is "From Producer/Director to Gaffer and Computer Special-effects creato, a behind the scenes look at who does what in the making of a motion picture."

If you're looking for good, solid information about "gaffing, gripping and best boying" forget it. It's just one of the subjects touched on in this book.

It's a decent book allright, but the title is misleading. If I had seen it in a book store I would have passed it by.

I really enjoyed this book. I never knew what gaffers and grips and producers actually did, but this book explains all those jobs. The book is written in the order that each person comes into a film, so you first learn about how an idea is generated, what happens with it, who gets involved next, and so on.

One thing I really liked was all the personal anecdotal information that each interviewee gave. For example, John Lithgow talks about working on the World According to Garp, and Charles Joffee talks about what it was like producing specific movies for Woody Allen.

A great book for someone who wants an enjoyable way to understand the intricacies of the filmmaking process.

I really like this book. I found it informative and interesting, although if you need something technical, you will want something more specialized. This is a great primer to basic departments to the film industry, with a nice description of a number of individual jobs written by pros who work them.

A very good overall description of all the jobs associated witrh filmmaking. I thought that there would be a little more depth to the descriptions, but...