From how to use the cameras to the rapidly emerging world of High Definition cinematography and 24p technology, this text covers all the on-the-set knowledge you need to know. The emphasis is on practical application with usable tools and information to help you get the job done. From getting the look to lighting styles and ratios, what is needed for different types of shoots and the technical preparation required, this is a complete reference to the knowledge and skills required to shoot high end digital films. There is also a guide to the Sony DVW in-camera menus showing how to set them up...

Filmmaking is an art, but, like so many art forms, there are basic underlying tools and techniques and a body theoretical knowledge that must be understood and mastered before artistic expression can flourish. This book is an invaluable resource for all aspiring DoPs.
Practical Cinematography can be dipped into for quick reference - perhaps to answer a specific question or deal with practical problems relating to a shoot - or read from cover to cover. It discusses the principles of cinematography and the expertise which is unique to the Director of Photography (DoP). It deals with all the...

Devon, England 1805. James Morgan, a 10 year old orphan runs away from a brutal life slaving on a farm. After narrowly escaping the hangman's rope from an incident in a coastal town, he stows away in an American cargo ship heading for Charleston South Carolina. He is soon found but is treated well by the elderly captain who becomes his guardian when he retires from the sea after they disembark. They live for seven years near the Mississippi river where James completes his education and develops a precocious gift of using the English language. When he reaches seventeen years of age, his...

In the early nineteen eighties, Charles Revill was one of four young graduates who become multi millionaires when they joined a New York investment bank at the time computers were being installed to accelerate the growth and value of world wide bond markets. Fifteen years later, one of them is shot dead in a London street and another found hanged in a Rome hotel. With a failed marriage behind him and little else to do but sit alone in his Vermont country mansion, Revill decides to find the reason for their murders and sets out on a perilous journey that takes him to America, England, Italy...

Juliana Smythe is a psychiatrist who specializes in treating walk-ins rather than referrals. One day a mysterious young man comes into her office to be treated for impotence and a tendency toward compulsive lying. The analyst becomes hooked on the case and she cures him to the point where he actually stops lying and falls in love with her. Or does he?