Tricky Video: The Complete Guide to Making Movie Magic (Klutz) [Hardcover-spiral]

The Editors of Klutz (Editor), John Cassidy (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2009 | Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Klutz

Tricky Video is a clever collection of easy-to-achieve video tricks, gags, and gimmicks you can do with your home video camera. Turns out you don't need to go high tech to be a master moviemaker. This book comes with a Hollywood-style slate (or clapper) to mark the start of every scene. Simple step-by-step sequences show young directors how to make people disappear, how to stage a painless fight scene, and more — in short, how to be a video genius.

Comes With: Hollywood-style slate

• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover-spiral: 40 pages
• Publisher: Klutz; Spi edition (March 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159174623X
• ISBN-13: 978-1591746232
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,039 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing educational resource!, October 20, 2009

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Video Teacher (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tricky Video: The Complete Guide to Making Movie Magic (Klutz) (Hardcover-spiral)

As a video teacher who works with young people, I find Tricky Video to be an AMAZING educational resource. And it's a lot of fun! My students love working on projects from the book. It combines classic camera tricks with innovative new ones, and is very accessible. Also, the exercises from a strong basis for experimentation and creativity--my students often come up great ideas based on techniques from this book. Amazing for fun, hands-on learning. A great book!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent gift and source of ideas for budding young directors, May 18, 2009

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

This review is from: Tricky Video: The Complete Guide to Making Movie Magic (Klutz) (Hardcover-spiral)

Tricky Video: The Complete Guide to Making Movie Magic is an exciting, easy-to-understand compendium of twenty-three tips and tricks young adults can use to create seemingly magical illusions on a home video camera, whether for home videos, YouTube posts, school projects, or anything else. Full color photography illustrate clever ideas from action figure dances (filmed via stop-motion animation) to "snap power" (when a subject on film snaps his fingers, his sister appears to turn into a dog!) to "giant land" (a tiny person stands on top of a giant's head). None of the optical illusions require an excess of expensive equipment beyond an ordinary home video camera - not even movie editing software. A black-and-white, Hollywood-style slate is included in this excellent gift and source of ideas for budding young directors.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for teachers!, October 25, 2009

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Jason Sussberg "Special FX Guru" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tricky Video: The Complete Guide to Making Movie Magic (Klutz) (Hardcover-spiral)

I taught at a special effects and digital video summer camp. Tricky Video was an invaluable resource for students of all ages. It helped me as an instructor show the students the possibilities of video without complex special effects, masks or animation. It is an entertaining resource will loads of fun exercises that explore spatial and temporal tricks for tweaking video. I highly recommend it for students and educators that want a cost-effective, easy and fun way to manipulate video!