Direction category: 829 books
Designing for Screen
Production and Art Direction Explained
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Design is at the essence of storytelling, but how does a production find its style and identity? This book explains how to approach design, whether for film, television, video promo or commercial making, and introduces the techniques needed to make ideas happen. Through theory and practical exercises,...
Fred Schepisi
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In the New Yorker, Stephen Schiff has described Fred Schepisi (b. 1939) as "probably the least-known great director working in the mainstream American cinema--a master storyteller with a serenely muscular style that can make more flamboyant moviemakers look coarse and overweening." Schepisi's...
Sound
Dialogue, Music, and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Sound has always been an integral component of the moviegoing experience. Even during the so-called “silent era,” motion pictures were regularly accompanied by live music, lectures, and sound effects. Today, whether we listen to movies in booming Dolby theaters or on tiny laptop speakers, sonic...
by Mark Kalbskopf
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up one morning, quit your job and declare yourself a Film Producer? Have you considered the costs and whether anyone will ever watch it? Who hasn’t wasted 90 minutes then wearily watched scrolling credits and thought, “I reckon I could make...
by Steven Louis Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In the first edition of A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, Steve Shelley cracked open his production book and showed how to prepare a lighting design and create the paperwork needed to mount a production.
In the second edition, he pulled back the curtain and showed the methods and processes...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to ‘undo’ or ‘subvert’ popular formats, but also to draw on their generative force. Recent...
Sternberg and Dietrich
The Phenomenology of Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the German-American actor Marlene Dietrich (1901-92). Considered by his contemporaries one of the most significant...
Aesthetic 3D Lighting
History, Theory, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Aesthetic 3D Lighting: History, Theory, and Application delves into the history, the theory, and the practical and aesthetic application of lighting in the fine arts and 3D animation.
In this book, animation industry veteran and lighting expert Lee Lanier examines the importance of lighting...
A Guide to Creating Your Own Internet Radio Station
You Can Do It for Free Also
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
So, you think you have what it takes to be a DJ and broadcaster? Awesome news for you! And guess what? This is very lucky news for you because in today's technology, it allows anyone who wants to do what was once a limited to a very small percentage of people. But, now you can become an online / internet...
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
**From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios—the Academy Award–winning studio behind *Coco, Inside Out, *and Toy Story—comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership for readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED...
The Mailroom
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more...
The Ride of a Lifetime
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2019
A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time’s most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.
Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company...
Der Sonnensucher. Konrad Wolf
Biographie
Language: German
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Ein großer Regisseur zwischen Subversion und Anpassung. Konrad Wolf, der Sohn des Schriftstellers und Arztes Friedrich Wolf, wurde mit Filmen wie „Der geteilte Himmel“ (1964), „Ich war neunzehn“ (1968) und „Solo Sunny“ (1980) international bekannt. Seine ungewöhnliche Biographie, die...
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead
Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him--the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York's Lower East Side, the wilds of...