Digital Filmmaking for Beginners A Practical Guide to Video Production

The easy-to-follow, all-in-one guide to creating professional-quality digital video productions Whether you're a film student, aspiring filmmaker, or even a digital video camera owner looking to add polish to your productions, Digital Filmmaking for Beginnerswill give you the knowledge and inspiration you need to launch a filmmaking hobby or career. Author Michael Hughes, a seasoned filmmaker with 40 years' teaching experience, offers clear instruction -- accompanied by online video demonstrations -- to help you quickly learn and master all the necessary skills for taking your ideas from the page to the screen. With a focus on all technical aspects of video film production, this guide's clear, jargon-free text and hundreds of illustrations show you the best ways to: plan and script projects; set up lighting, microphones and cameras; shoot, edit, and apply postproduction touches; and much more. Learn from a filmmaker/film teacher with 40 years' experience behind the camera and in the classroom Covers all necessary steps in planning, staging, shooting, editing, and packaging digital videos Includes expert recommendations on the best video equipment and software for a wide range of budgets and applications

Introduction
Chapter 1. Film and Video: History and Technical
Chapter 2. The Camera
Chapter 3. Picture Composition
Chapter 4. Lenses, Light, and 'Lectricity
Chapter 5. Production Audio
Chapter 6. The Three Stages of Production
Chapter 7. Pre-Production: The Planning Stage
Chapter 8. Production
Chapter 9. Post Production
Chapter 10. That's a Wrap!