Digital Moviemaking (with InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Broadcast and Production) [Paperback]

Lynne S. Gross (Author), Larry W. Ward (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0534562914 | ISBN-13: 978-0534562915 | Publication Date: July 9, 2003 | Edition: 5

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.

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"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 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 organizationsÂ--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.

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 5 edition (July 9, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534562914
• ISBN-13: 978-0534562915
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A good Tech. Text about Film., January 29, 2008

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This review is from: Digital Moviemaking (Wadsworth Series in Broadcast and Production) (Paperback)

This text is a must for any beginning film student because it does a real good job about detailing film. However, it simplifies the term so it isn't so mind boggling to grasp. And the pictures and diagrams and examples really help you understand th production side of filming and what Videographers, Directors, Actors, Editors, Production Designers, do in filmmaking. A great read for anyone who wants to make television programs and or films.