Film Art: An Introduction

Film Art: An Introduction Review

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema.

Taking a skills-centered approach supported by a wide range of examples from various periods and countries, the authors strive to help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will deepen their understanding of any film, in any genre. Frame enlargements throughout the text enable students to view images taken directly from completed films, while an optional, text-specific tutorial CD-ROM helps clarify and reinforce specific concepts addressed in the text with the use of film clips. Building on these strengths, the ninth edition adds coverage of new technologies, updated examples, and references to the authors' acclaimed weblog to provide unparalleled currency and connect students with the world of cinema today.

Cut by Cut: Editing Your Film or Video

Cut by Cut: Editing Your Film or Video Review

Learn how skilled editors can turn raw footage into polished art for film, television, or web. With practical project guidelines and advice on organizing digital and film cutting rooms, and much more.

How Not to Make a Short Film: Secrets from a Sundance Programmer

How Not to Make a Short Film: Secrets from a Sundance Programmer Review

"Roberta Munroe is that rare person in the film world who can not only recognize an inspired, great film, but she can actually help you make one."
--Mark Duplass, Sundance and SXSW award-winning filmmaker.

"Roberta Munroe is brilliant. Her advice and insights on our project, The Tribe, from rough cut to completed film were instrumental and invaluable to its success. It is exciting to think that all filmmakers will have access to her incredible mind and experience through this book."
--Tiffany Shlain, award-winning filmmaker

Anyone can make a short film, right Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right

Wrong.

Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short filmmaker in her own right. So she knows a thing or two about how not to make a short film. From the first draft of your script to casting, production, editing, and distribution, this is your one-stop primer for breaking into the business. Featuring interviews with many of today's most talented writers, producers, and directors, as well as revealing stories (e.g., what to do when the skinhead crack addict next door begins screaming obscenities as soon as you call "action") from the sets of her own short films, Roberta walks you through the minefield of mistakes that an aspiring filmmaker can make--so that you don't have to make them yourself.

The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Films

The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Films Review

Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in sixteen modern films.

Filmmaking Stuff: How to make, market and sell your movie without the middle-man. (Volume 1)

Filmmaking Stuff: How to make, market and sell your movie without the middle-man. (Volume 1) Review

As a filmmaker, one of the biggest problems YOU have is finding a way to get your movie made, seen and sold without waiting for some Hollywood yahoo to give you permission. And as you probably know, there are a lot of people who want to make movies. But very few people will actually take action.

The good news is this. You no longer need Hollywood. In fact, the future of filmmaking is not Hollywood. It is the thousands of independent filmmakers empowered by the digital revolution.

This filmmaking book shows YOU how to get the script, use crowdfunding to raise the money, make the journey from screenplay to screen, distribute your movie, and then build an audience eager to see your next movie!

Filmmaking Stuff shows you how to make, market and sell your movie!

What makes this filmmaking book different than the gazillion other filmmaking books in your collection?

For starters, if you are looking for more information on 3-point lighting or how to set up dolly track, this is not the book for you!

While all that how-to technical stuff is essential for physical production – unless you have an understanding of how to actually get money, market and then sell your movie – good luck!

Finding out how to leverage new tools such as crowdfunding, social media, internet marketing for filmmakers and modern movie distribution are essential for the modern moviemaker. And if you want to make more than one movie in your career, this filmmaking book is for you!

Who should get this book?

* Grab your copy of filmmaking stuff if you are sick of waiting for someone else to discover your talent!

* Grab this filmmaking book if you are ready to take action and make your movie now!

* Grab this filmmaking book if you want to understand how to leverage crowdfunding to raise money and find an audience!

* Grab this filmmaking book if you want to find out about new methods in marketing and film distribution!

* Grab this filmmaking book if you want to make, market and sell your movie without the middle-man!

If you want to make movies, now is the time to take action! This book is a must read for serious filmmakers!

What is included in this book?

Chapter 1 Modern Movie Business

Right now, with or without Hollywood, you have the opportunity to make movies and reach your audience globally! If you want to take advantage of this opportunity, NOW is the day when you stop dreaming and start DOING! Learn this stuff and you’ll never go back to your old movie making ideas!

Chapter 2 Create Your Story

You are now competing with filmmakers across the globe who are flooding the market with garbage. To be successful, you need to have a great, marketable screenplay. Something that you can quickly pitch to prospective investors and collaborators and have them say: “That’s an awesome idea for a movie!”

Chapter 3 Get Movie Money

Go from story to budget. You will also find out how to communicate with prospective investors in their language. You will also find tips on how to leverage crowdfunding and social networks to get money.

Chapter 4 Manufacture Your Movie

To start a small business, all you need is an idea, some start up cash, raw material, production and a customer base – and a way to sell whatever it is you created. Non-discriminatory distribution allows you to create movies from anywhere in the world and reach your audience.

Chapter 5 Marketing and Distribution

With DVD sales down, utilization of middle-men like sales agents and distribution companies is changing. The ripple effect means that you will need to create your own marketing, sales and distribution strategy.

If you are a filmmaker who wants to make your own movies, and make a career making movies, then this filmmaking book is for you. Filmmaking Stuff will provide you with insights on how to raise money, how to build a team, how to build buzz around your movie and finally, how to sell your movie.

FILMMAKING 101: Ten Essential Lessons for the Noob Filmmaker (Film School Online 101 Series)

FILMMAKING 101: Ten Essential Lessons for the Noob Filmmaker (Film School Online 101 Series) Review

If you've ever toyed with the idea of becoming a filmmaker but never acted on it, this primer for filmmaking will get you started in the right direction. Here is an overview of the key areas of filmmaking: screenwriting, directing, cinematography, sound, editing, and producing. Plus, a look at documentary and low budget production strategies. The "ten essential lessons" are a compilation of several articles and lessons from the Film School Online website by NYU Film School's long time production supervisor, Lou LaVolpe. Length: approximately 42 pages.

Mann on Film: It's a Mad World and other essays

Mann on Film: It's a Mad World and other essays Review

S.E. Mann celebrates American cinema and culture in this first in a series of books on entertainment.

A lover of movies from an early age, Mr. Mann has been called an actor, director, writer and producer, as well as some other things we can't repeat here. Love him or hate him, you'll definitely have an opinion on his opinion of what makes Hollywood one of the most influential places on Earth.

From his Tokyo hideaway, S.E. Mann offers up a blue plate special of juicy insight garnished with humor and gushing with delicious admiration for our most beloved invention: Hollywood.

Look for more in the 'Mann on' series of books - Mann on Music, Mann on War, Mann on Art...

A Short History of Film

A Short History of Film Review

The history of international cinema is now available in a concise, conveniently sized, and affordable volume. Succinct yet comprehensive, A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present. More than 250 rare stills and illustrations accompany the text, bringing readers face to face with many of the key players and films that have marked the industry.

Beginning with precursors of what we call moving pictures, Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster lead a fast-paced tour through the invention of the kinetoscope, the introduction of sound and color between the two world wars, and ultimately the computer generated imagery of the present day. They detail significant periods in world cinema, including the early major industries in Europe, the dominance of the Hollywood studio system in the 1930s and 1940s, and the French New Wave of the 1960s. Special attention is also given to small independent efforts in developing nations and the corresponding more personal independent film movement that briefly flourished in the United States, the significant filmmakers of all nations, censorship and regulation and how they have affected production everywhere, and a wide range of studios and genres. Along the way, the authors take great care to incorporate the stories of women and other minority filmmakers who have often been overlooked in other texts.

Compact and easily readable, this is the best one-stop source for the history of world film available to students, teachers, and general audiences alike.

SPANKED ON FILM: The Discipline Of A Model (XXX Stories)

SPANKED ON FILM: The Discipline Of A Model (XXX Stories) Review

Lauren is still reeling from a terrible break-up with the man she loves when a handsome stranger approaches her on the subway. The stranger invites her to model for his photography club. Angry and wanting to banish Jason from her thoughts, she agrees. 

Always bookish and shy, Lauren has no idea what she's getting into. Not only is she attracted by her new friend, Lauren soon learns there's dark pleasure in modeling for him and his club, and wants more.

  

A taste:

Richard held the curtain for her to pass. It brushed her shoulder, smelling musty and dangerous.

A medium sized room lay on the far side. An off-white, paper backdrop hung from a giant roll, dominating the far wall. Facing it in a semi-circle sat a dozen or so middle aged men. They all had camera bags at their feet, and were fiddling with their gear.

The men turned as she entered.

Richard made the introductions.

Lauren stood as their eyes roved over her body like hundreds of fingers. Her hands went protectively to the gap above her stockings. Trapped with these older men, she felt how erotically suggestive they might look. She felt herself blush. 

  

Caution: This short story (about 5,500 words, or 22 pages) contains spanking, graphic language, sex toys and more! 18+  

On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director

On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director Review

A priceless examination of the filmmaker's craft, from the renowned director of Sweet Smell of Success

After more than twenty years in the film industry as a screenwriter, storyboard editor, and director of memorable films such as The Ladykillers, Alexander Mackendrick turned his back on Hollywood and began a new career as the Dean of one of the country's most demanding and influential film schools. His absolute devotion to the craft of filmmaking served as a powerful impetus to students at the California Institute for the Arts for almost twenty five years, with a teaching style that included prodigious notes, neatly crafted storyboards, and handouts containing excerpts of works by Kierkegaard, Aristotle, and others. At the core of Mackendrick's lessons lay a deceptively simple goal: to teach aspiring filmmakers how to structure and write the stories they want to tell, while using the devices particular to the medium of film to tell their stories effectively.

In this impressive volume, edited by Paul Cronin, the myriad materials that made Mackendrick's reputation as an instructor are collected for the first time, offering a chance for professionals as well as students to discover a methodology of filmmaking that is challenging yet refreshing in its clarity. Meticulously illustrated and drawing on examples from such classic films as North by Northwest, Citizen Kane, and Touch of Evil, Mackendrick's elegant lessons are sure to provide inspiration for a new generation of filmmakers.

Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film

Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film Review

Now brought completely up to date, the new edition of this classic work on documentary films and filmmaking surveys the history of the genre from 1895 to the present day. With the myriad social upheavals over the past decade, documentaries have enjoyed an international renaissance; here Barnouw considers the medium in the light of an entirely new political and social climate. He examines as well the latest filmmaking technology, and the effects that video cassettes and cable television are having on the production of documentaries. And like the previous editions, Documentary is filled with photographs, many of them rare, collected during the author's travels around the world. Covering the full course of the documentary from Louis Lumiere's first effort to recent landmark productions such as Shoah, this book makes the growing importance of a unique blend of art and reality accessible and understandable to all film lovers.