Digital Moviemaking (with InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Broadcast and Production)
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Book Description
This widely praised text covers planning, shooting, editing, and distributing movies. The authors ensure that students understand why the planning process is essential. Gross and Ward over cameras, lights, and sound equipment with some chapters detailing operational skills and others dealing with aesthetics. The text features a chapter devoted to directing, and it covers the mechanics and aesthetics of editing and incorporating visual effects. Students are not only introduced to the concepts and mechanics of filmmaking but are also given ideas of what to do with their movies once they are completed.
About the Author
Lynne Gross teaches radio-television production and theory courses at California State University, Fullerton. In the past she has taught full-time at Pepperdine University, Loyola Marymount University, and Long Beach City College. She is the author of eleven other books and numerous journal and magazine articles. She is currently Associate Producer for the instructional video series "Journeys Below the Line" and in the past was Program Director for Valley Cable TV. She has served as Producer for several hundred television programs, including the series "From Chant to Chance" for public television, "Effective Living" for KABC, and "Surveying the Universe" for KHJ-TV. Her consulting work includes projects for Children's Broadcasting Corporation, RKO, KCET, CBS, the Olympics, Visa, and the Iowa State Board of Regents. It has also taken her to Malaysia, Swaziland, Estonia, Russia, Australia, and Guyana, where she has taught radio and television production and consulted on film planning and post-production equipment. She is active in many professional organizations, serving as a Governor of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and President of the Broadcast Education Association. Awards she has received include the Frank Stanton Fellow for Distinguished Contribution to Electronic Media Education from the International Radio and Television Society and the Distinguished Education Service Award from the BEA. Larry Ward is a professor of radio-TV-film at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches primarily film and television production and film history and aesthetics. While at the university, he has produced hundreds of hours of sports and public affairs programming broadcast and cablecast in the Los Angeles?Orange County area. He was producer director for "The Science Report", a series of 20-minute educational tapes for sixth-grade students, funded by Union Oil and the Placentia School District. Before that he was director-editor for "The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War", a one-hour documentary film for Post?Newsweek Television Productions, and "Lowell Thomas Remembers I and II," a series for public broadcasting. He has published a number of articles and papers and one other book, "The Motion Picture Goes to War." He has also served as the western regional coordinator for the Motion Picture Academy's Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Contest. He has a B.A. from William Jewell College and an M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Iowa.
Digital Moviemaking (with InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Broadcast and Production),Lynne S. Gross,Larry W. Ward,Wadsworth Publishing,0534562914,Digital cinematography,Film & Video - Cinematography,Film & Video - General,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Television & Video,Business & Economics / Industries / Media & Communications Industries
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