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This 4th edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to include detailed information on the latest lighting and camera equipment, as well as expanded and updated discussion on the following areas: shooting on a budget, color spaces with emphasis on the new UHD standards, the decision-making process in choosing what lights and equipment to use, considerations concerning power issues, safety and what electrical supply is needed for various types of lights, an examination of the cinematographers role in preproduction, and much more.
Topics Include:
Visual storytelling
Continuity and coverage
Cameras and digital sensors
The tools and basics of film lighting
Methods of shooting a scene
Continuity and coverage
Exposure
Color
Understanding digital images
Using linear, gamma, and log video
Image control and grading on the set
Data management and the DIT
Optics and focus
Camera movement
Set operations
Green screen, high speed, and other topics.Whether you are a student of filmmaking, someone just breaking into the business, working in the field and looking to move up the ladder, or an experienced filmmaker updating your knowledge of tools and techniques, this book provides both the artistic background of visual language and also the craft of shooting for continuity, lighting tools and methods, and the technical side of capturing images on digital or on film.
The companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/brown) features additional material, including lighting demonstrations, basic methods of lighting, methods of shooting a scene, using diffusion, and other topics.
Recenzja
'Its been a painful transition from film to digital for many cinematographers. Brown takes the mystery out of it and presents the technical aspects of this change seamlessly. It is, after all, about art!'
Judy Irola,
ASC, Conrad Hall Chair in Cinematography and Color Timing, USC School of Cinematic Arts
'As a practicing cinematographer who also teaches, I consider
The Filmmakers Guide to Digital Imaging
essential reading for my students. Blain Brown demystifies the technical processes of digital cinematography from the most basic to the more complex. Given the recent rapid development in this field, working professionals too will find this is a must-have guide. Im one of them.
Anthony Jannelli,
Head of Graduate Cinematography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York UniversityJust when you think a textbook cant get any better, Brown comes up with this. Explanatory diagrams and illustrations from films give insight into the thought process and methods of the cinematographer. Brown illuminates both the large gestures and the finer points of the art and craft of cinematography.
James Henderson,
Filmmaker/photographer/educator
This is a welcome updated version of
Cinematography
:
Theory and Practice
, which keeps the traditional approaches to camerawork, and includes additional chapters on technological developments, such as Cameras, Image Control including a section on LUTs, and DIT & Workflow. This is an essential book for teaching camera techniques to students in the changing world of cinematography technologies.
Jeremy Bubb,
Chair of NAHEMI. Filmmaker, and Academic.
'Its been a painful transition from film to digital for many cinematographers. Brown takes the mystery out of it and presents the technical aspects of this change seamlessly. It is, after all, about art!'
Judy Irola,
ASC, Conrad Hall Chair in Cinematography and Color Timing, USC School of Cinematic Arts
'As a practicing cinematographer who also teaches, I consider
The Filmmakers Guide to Digital Imaging
essential reading for my students. Blain Brown demystifies the technical processes of digital cinematography from the most basic to the more complex. Given the recent rapid development in this field, working professionals too will find this is a must-have guide. Im one of them.
Anthony Jannelli,
Head of Graduate Cinematography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Just when you think a textbook cant get any better, Brown comes up with this. Explanatory diagrams and illustrations from films give insight into the thought process and methods of the cinematographer. Brown illuminates both the large gestures and the finer points of the art and craft of cinematography.
James Henderson,
Filmmaker/photographer/educator
This is a welcome updated version of
Cinematography
:
Theory and Practice
, which keeps the traditional approaches to camerawork, and includes additional chapters on technological developments, such as Cameras, Image Control including a section on LUTs, and DIT & Workflow. This is an essential book for teaching camera techniques to students in the changing world of cinematography technologies.
Jeremy Bubb,
Chair of NAHEMI; Filmmaker, and Academic
O autorze
Blain Brown
has been in the film business for over 30 years, working as a director of photography, director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Before becoming a DP/Director, he worked as a lighting technician, gaffer, and grip. He has written, directed, and photographed feature films, commercials, music videos, and corporate videos. He has taught at several film schools in the Los Angeles area, including Columbia College, UCLA, Los Angeles Film School, and AFI. He studied architecture and planning at MIT, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His other books include
The Basics of Filmmaking:
Screenwriting, Producing, Directing, Cinematography, Audio, & Editing
,
Motion Picture and Video Lighting
(3rd edition), and
The Filmmaker's Guide to Digital Imaging.
Product information
- Wydawca:Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10:0367373459
- ISBN-13:978-0367373450
- Author:Blain Brown
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