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Tricky Video: The Complete Guide to Making Movie Magic (Klutz)

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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!

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.

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!

Bought this for my nephew for Christmas knowing he was receiving a Flip camcorder. He loves it I think even more than the camcorder! He enjoys running around and snapping the top saying 'take one' and 'take two' etc... The book looks to have fun tips for filming as well but he may not read that until he is a little older. Right now he just likes filming goofy stuff and snapping this thing! Worth the price for certain.

Gave this to my 10 year old nephew for his birthday and he says it is his favorite gift! The ability to snap and say, "ACTION!"was the icing on the cake.

Very fun book. Really makes producing a fun little movie quite easy. My high school students have been loving it and I will use it for my jr. high kids too.

Most of the things here are based on stop motion and other cheesy video tricks, but it WORKS! The reason why I bough this was because it comes with a clapper/slate which is useful. Just paste a whiteboard like material and now you have your own customized slate! HA!

The effects for this book are fun. The kids seem to enjoy doing them. I think it was a great purchase for kids interested in film.

This was a gift for an 8 year-old girl who also received a new video/still camera. She's read the whole thing. I hope she will try some of the tricks out with her camera.

Fun book for younger kids. Good ideas for young people interested in fun film projects.