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MasterShots Vol 1: 100 Advanced Camera Techniques to Get an Expensive Look on Your LowBudget Movie
100 Advanced Camera Techniques to Get an Expensive Look on Your Low-Budget Movie
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Master Shots gives filmmakers the techniques they need to execute complex, original shots on any budget. By using powerful master shots and well-executed moves, directors can develop a strong style and stand out from the crowd. Most low-budget movies look low-budget because the director is forced to...
Cinematography for Directors: A Guide for Creative Collaboration
A Guide for Creative Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Frost presents the essential handbook for directors and aspiring filmmakers who want to get the best visuals for their films while establishing a collaborative relationship with their cinematographer
by Jacqueline Frost
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Frost presents the essential handbook for directors and aspiring filmmakers who want to get the best visuals for their films while establishing a collaborative relationship with their cinematographer
Will.i.am
The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Will.i.am: The Unauthorized Biography traces the rise to fame and fortune of William James Adams, Jr. (stage name Will.i.am). The book explores his troubled childhood and shows how his early love of flamboyant dress and his talent for rap saved him from the sad fates that befell many of his friends and...
Shoot Like Tarantino
The Visual Secrets of Dangerous Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Want your film to sizzle with danger? Then learn from the master of tension and action. Using Tar-antino’s secret tricks for creating conflict, keeping dialogue taut, and letting all hell break loose, you will enhance your own shooting style. Whatever your budget, get the action pumping with the...
Master Shots Vol 2
Shooting Great Dialogue Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This is the ChineseSimplified version. Dialogue scenes are the most important moments in your film, but most directors get them wrong. If you block your scenes well, you do more than capture the basic scene; you echo the meaning, emotion, and drama of every moment. That is never more important than...
by Shelley Klein
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
More Senior Moments (The Ones We Forgot) is the hilarious follow-up to the bestselling The Book of Senior Moments, containing all those pearls of wisdom that slipped our minds the first time. If long-term memory means the ability to recall where you put your glasses for longer than thirty seconds, and...
Setting Up Your Scenes
The Inner Workings of Great Films
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Every great filmmaker has role models and films which inspired him or her to greater and greater heights. Here, for the first time, is an awe-inspiring guide that takes you into the inner workings of classic scenes, revealing the aspects that make them great and the reasons they have served as inspirations
Spitfire Stories
True Tales from Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Published in association with Imperial War Museums, this is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines of the Second World War. The Spitfire is the world’s most iconic aeroplane. Coming into its own during the Battle of Britain, it became famous during the Second...
Unbelievable!
The Bizarre World of Coincidences
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
It's a funny old world, isn't it? Chance encounters, history repeating, divine interventions - it's strange how things turn out. With a host of funny, weird and bizarre stories of coincidence, Unbelievable! is a fascinating collection of tales of synchronicity, including: The creepy goings-on on the...
Cheryl Cole
Her Story - The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
One fifth of Britain's hottest girl group, super-WAG, X Factor judge and all round celebrity, Cheryl Cole has been a runaway success since her first appearance on Popstars: The Rivals. In this intimate biography Gerard Sanderson takes an insightful and sensitive look at Cheryl's life and her whirlwind...
Misty Copeland
Power and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Power and grace define Misty Copeland—an influential ballet dancer who has broken through difficult barriers to become the first female African-American to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. Misty has proven adversity can be conquered by reaching higher and working harder...
The Book Club Bible
The Definitive Guide That Every Book Club Member Needs
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
With a foreword by Lionel Shriver, author of We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Book Club Bible is the essential guide to the best book club reads.
She Said
Witty Words from Wise Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
She Said is a wonderful celebration of the wit and wisdom of women through the ages. In it you’ll find writers, artists, politicians, actors, musicians, fashionistas, from Sappho to Beyoncé and Dorothy Parker to Carrie Fisher, all of whom have two things in common: brilliant minds and barbed wits...