Vidio film in Performing Arts Books

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Black women film and video makers have been producing films since the early part of this century. Unfortunately, not only has their work been overlooked by distributors, but critical reviews have been few and far between. Conceived to redress that omission, this book is the first comprehensive history and analysis of the genre.

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Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video is the definitive book on the subject for beginning filmmakers and students. The book clearly illustrates all of the steps involved in preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both producer and director, and explains how their separate energies must combine to create a successful short film or video, from script to final product. This guide offers extensive examples from award-winning shorts and includes insightful quotes from the filmmakers themselves describing the problems they encountered and how they solved them. The companion website contains useful forms and information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations.<br><br>* Unique approach which looks at the process from the director's and producer's point of view<br>* Third edition includes information on new HD formats, postproduction, and a new animation example<br>* A companion website contains useful forms, information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations

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Basic Lighting Worktext for Film and Video guides the film and video student through a series of readings, exercises and projects designed to provide the fundamentals of light science. In addition to up-to-date descriptions of equipment and tips on how to use it properly, the book provides numerous set-ups that illustrate the techniques and thoughts behind proper studio and location lighting.<br><br> From this book, you will learn:<br>* The fundamentals of light and electricity in film<br>* The fine distinction of lighting for video versus lighting for film<br>* How to identify and filter sources such as daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, arc, HNI and industrial discharge lamps<br>* The use of lensed and open-faced lighting fixtures<br>* How to modify with barndoors, scrims, snoots, nets, cookies, and other accessories<br>* Variations on the basic three-point lighting setup<br>* The duties of each member of a lighting unit<br>* How to light night exteriors, day interiors, and campfires<br>* High-key, low-key, and modulated value lighting<br>* How to scout locations, plan lighting, plots, and pre-rig sets

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<P>Virtually everyone working in dance today uses electronic media technology. <i>Envisioning Dance on Film and Video</i> chronicles this 100-year history and gives readers new insight on how dance creatively exploits the art and craft of film and video. In 53 essays, choreographers, filmmakers, critics and collaborating artists explore all aspects of the process of rendering a three-dimensional art form in two-dimensional electronic media. Many of these essays are illustrated by 93 photographs and a 2-hour DVD (40 video excerpts).<br>A project of UCLA - Center for Intercultural Performance, made possible through The Pew Charitable Trusts (www.wac.ucla.edu/cip).</P>

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<P><i>Queer Looks</i> is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent media culture. A compelling compilation of artists' statements and critical theory, producer interviews and image-text works, this anthology demonstrates the vitality of queer artists under attack and fighting back. Each maker and writer deploys a surprising array of techniques and tactics, negotiating the difficult terrain between street pragmatism and theoretical inquiry, finding voices rich in <i>chutzpah</i> and subtlety. From guerilla Super-8 in Manila to AIDS video activism in New York, <i>Queer Looks</i> zooms in on this very queer place in media culture, revealing a wealth of strategies, a plurality of aesthetics, and an artillary of resistances.</P>

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What happens when we turn the camera on ourselves? This question has long plagued documentary filmmakers concerned with issues of reflexivity, subject participation, and self-consciousness. Documenting Ourselves includes interviews with filmmakers Les Blank, Pat Ferrero, Jorge Preloran, Bill Ferris, and others, who discuss the ways their own productions and subjects have influenced them. But Sharon Sherman does not limit herself to the problems faced by filmmakers today. She examines the history of documentary films, tracing them from their origins as a means of capturing human motion through the emergence of various film styles. She also discusses current theories and techniques of folklore and fieldwork, concluding that advances in video technology have made the camcorder an essential tool that has the potential to redefine the nature of the documentary itself.

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Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By closely reading documentaries as rich visual works, this anthology fills a void in the critical writing on documentaries, which tends to privilege production over aesthetic pleasure. As we perceive and comprehend the world through visual media increasingly, understanding the textual strategies by which individual documentaries are organized has become critically important. Together, the essays cover the significant developments in the history of the documentary, from the first commercially released feature, Nanook of the North (1922), to modern independent productions, such as An American Family (1973), Tongues Untied (1989), and Finding Christa (1991), and including important national and stylistic movements and various production contexts from the mainstream to the avant-garde. Seth Feldman places Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) within the context of constructivism and futurism; Vivian Sobchack discusses the strategies of Bunuel's Las Hurdas (Land without Bread, 1931) in relation to surrealism; and Joanne Hershfield explores Que viva Mexico! (1932) as the presentation of an "exotic" culture by a European director. Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balancebetween theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis.

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Film Into Video, Second Edition offers comprehensive, practical information on the complex process of converting motion picture film into video. All of the tools of the trade are explained in clear, simple language, as are the operational, business, and creative sides of film to video transfer. This easy-to use guide provides the reader with the necessary foundation to approach any technological advances in this fast-paced field.<br><br> Additions to the second edition include: information on the Philips Spirit Data Cine and the new Sony FVS-1000; a new section on the latest in flying spot telecines, including Cintel's C-Reality and Ursa Electrum; an examination of recent changes in color correction computers with da Vinci's 2K and Pandora's Mega-Def systems, and in respect to Philips Spirit DataCine and Cintel's C-Reality, a discussion relating to the area of data transfer and how this has changed the telecine industry.<br><br>New information on the Philips Spirit Data Cine and the new Sony FVS-1000<br>A new section on the latest in flying spot telecines, including Cintel's C-Reality and Ursa Electrum <br>Covers recent changes in color correction computers with da Vinci's 2K and Pandora's Mega-Def systems

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Packed with step-by-step information, hints and tips, this book provides all the basic information needed to manage the production of a film or video from beginning to end - from idea to delivery. This is a book for any aspiring producer, student on a film or video production course, or anybody wishing to improve their knowledge and skills. The reader is guided from the script or proposal, through the various stages of pre-production, script breakdown, cross-plotting, scheduling, budgeting, preparation and the shoot: followed by editing, post-production and finally delivery.

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This unique guide helps U.S. educators and media users locate more than four hundred films and videos made by Latin American and U.S. Latino film/video makers that are available in the United States and provides descriptions of each. Reviews by professors from varied disciplines as well as film/video curators add suggestions for introducing the films to U.S. audiences and including them in diverse course curricula. A complementary reading section points readers to the extensive bibliography containing written materials to accompany the works. The film/video titles are indexed by subject, Spanish or Portuguese title, and English title, and a distributors' index provides contact information for purchasing and renting works. Films and videos in the guide vary in genre from classic feature films to independent and community produced documentaries, short fiction, and experimental video art. Of particular interest is a more recent body of video work produced by indigenous film/video makers.

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Offers guidance to video or short-film making. This title shows how to: create a video to share online; record and document everyday events; bring an issue or situation to a wider audience (for charity workers); use film to explore social issues (for journalists); and, experiment within an audio visual medium (for writers and artists).

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This remarkable introduction to avant grade film ranges from Cezanne and dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage, and Le Grice, to the new wave of British video artists in the '90s.

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With more entries than any other guide and over one hundred years of entertainment and cinema information at your fingertips, Halliwell's is widely recognised as the biggest and the best film guide available. This is the undisputed bible for film enthusiasts and trivia buffs everywhere -- a must-have for every moviegoer.

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Comprehensively updated from the 1998 edition, the 1999 Guide includes over 7000 movies covered in depth, selected by the TV Times' own David Quinlan. Sharp critical review is backed up by a five star rating system from outstanding to poor. Each review includes running time, country of origin, release date, color or black-and-white production, and up to six of the major stars who appear in the film. Every film is also assessed for its suitability as family viewing. The ideal film companion for all the family from Britain's most acute and trustworthy film critic

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Film & Video Financing offers the independent producer a plethora of approaches to the complex and arduous task of financing the low-budget ($10 million or less) feature. Contents include information on current attitudes and approaches to finding investment through limited partnerships, equity investments, banking issues, split-rights deals, debt equity deals, blocked funds, foreign pre-sales, and much more. plus insider's tips from independent producers and money raisers for such films as sex, lies, and videotape, Dirty Dancing, and Kiss of the Spider Woman.

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