Real World Digital Video

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Shaner (UCLA film school) and Jones describe the products used in digital video production and identify the essential production skills needed to use them effectively. They examine the different approaches to video story-telling, survey the features needed in a good camcorder, and walk through the process of planning a shoot, choosing equipment and personnel, setting up lighting, and capturing good sound. The DVD-ROM contains example video project styles, interviews, trial software for PC and Mac, and production forms.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
Real World Digital Video covers the latest technology-and techniques-in every phase of video production, delivering industrial-strength techniques for everyone from first-time video makers to media professionals. This practical resource explains how to capture professional-quality images and sound; edit, post process, and add special effects; and distribute video on tape, DVD, or streaming Internet media. Unlike competing books that focus primarily on feature-length motion pictures, Real World Digital Video draws many of its examples from practical communication projects in businesses and organizations: product demos, news-style interviews, documentaries, and event coverage, as well as scripted presentations with business messages, and experimental and fictional films. Real World Digital Video promotes DV's "democratization" of video and film-making the powerful tools of mass communication more economical and accessible than ever before. Plus a companion DVD comes packed with examples of a video interview, a documentary, and a scripted project, in addition to on-camera interviews with DV experts, software demos, and useful production forms and templates. For example, rather than working up your own documents, you can simply download pre-production and production forms, a template for shot plans, and checklists for buying or renting cameras, lighting and sound equipment, and an editing system.


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Real World Digital Video covers the latest technology-and techniques-in every phase of video production, delivering industrial-strength techniques for everyone from first-time video makers to media professionals. This practical resource explains how to capture professional-quality images and sound; edit, post process, and add special effects; and distribute video on tape, DVD, or streaming Internet media. Unlike competing books that focus primarily on feature-length motion pictures, Real World Digital Video draws many of its examples from practical communication projects in businesses and organizations: product demos, news-style interviews, documentaries, and event coverage, as well as scripted presentations with business messages, and experimental and fictional films. Real World Digital Video promotes DV's "democratization" of video and film-making the powerful tools of mass communication more economical and accessible than ever before. Plus a companion DVD comes packed with examples of a video interview, a documentary, and a scripted project, in addition to on-camera interviews with DV experts, software demos, and useful production forms and templates. For example, rather than working up your own documents, you can simply download pre-production and production forms, a template for shot plans, and checklists for buying or renting cameras, lighting and sound equipment, and an editing system.


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Shaner (UCLA film school) and Jones describe the products used in digital video production and identify the essential production skills needed to use them effectively. They examine the different approaches to video story-telling, survey the features needed in a good camcorder, and walk through the process of planning a shoot, choosing equipment and personnel, setting up lighting, and capturing good sound. The DVD-ROM contains example video project styles, interviews, trial software for PC and Mac, and production forms. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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