Non-fiction book
22 articles
Cinema and History: The Telling of Stories
As the fare currently on offer at this year's London Film Festival shows, getting history up on the big screen is very much in vogue at the moment. Between Frost/Nixon, The Baader-Meinhof Complex and W., recent events are almost constantly being reappropriated for the screen at the moment.
Mike Chopra-Gant, who teaches media, communication and cultural studies at London Met University...
Careers in Wildlife Filmmaking
Reviewed by James MacGregor
Publisher; Wildeye ISBN 978-0-9541899-3-8
It has the elements of all good screen stories; the long slow build of anticipation, the tension, the frustrations and finally, the reveal. Yet the wildlife film is film art in a class all of its own, requiring painstaking research and endless patience, often in less than c...
Planning the Low Budget Film
by Robert Latham Brown
Chalk Hill Books, L.A, March 2006, 416 pages, $29.95
Low budget film production is a chicken and egg scenario. For the production to be successful you need experience to avoid potentially costly mistakes. If you have that sort of experience already, you are unlikely to be making low budget films at all. If you want to go the low budget route, how do you g...
Banish Those HDV Filmmaking Headaches!
HDV Filmmaking by Chad Fahs
An Authoritative Guide to the Brave New World of HDV
470 pages Thomson Course Technology $49.99
High definition video is the latest technology to enable filmmakers to capture the best possible image at lowest cost. Because it shares tape transport with DV format, it is often see as the next step up, but this is not DV, it is a very differ...
Go Wild With Your Camcorder – How to Make Wildlife Films
Dont Go Wild Without it.....
If you are prone to that urge for the great outdoors and the call of
nature, but haven't yet got around to actually filming it, this little
book makes an ideal companion.
Slim enough to slip into a side pocket of your rucksac, its 122 pages
are packed with information, making it as essential to the
success of your wildlife sa...