Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Film - Direction & Production

The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models, and opera proved to be especially useful in that regard. The allure of opera to cinema early in the twentieth century held up through the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies, and beyond. This book explores the numerous ways - some predictable, some unexpected, and some bizarre - in which this has happened.

The influence of Richard Wagner on filmmakers has been...

The book also includes unique contributions and advice from leading organisations such as AMPAS, BAFTA, Creative Skillset, Film London and WFTV, as well from Oscar and BAFTA-winning talent including Amma Asante (director, A United Kingdom), Steven Hall (VFX DoP, Star Wars: The Force...

Single frame film-making has been around as long as film itself. It is the ancestor to modern day special effects and animation. Despite its age-old practice, Single frame film making and stop-motion animation continues to influence media and culture with its magic. Current advances in technology and classic stop motion techniques, such as pixilation, time-lapse photography and down shooting have combined to form exciting new approaches. Tom Gasek's Frame-By-Frame Stop Motion offers hands-on experience and various tricks, tips, and exercises to help strengthen skills and produce...

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How to make a movie: Filmmaker Rickey Bird and screenwriter and novelist Al Guevara are on a mission to help indie moviemakers everywhere. Today's indie film market is growing by leaps and bounds. At the same time, many aspiring filmmakers are running into their share of problems:

• not enough money for crews
• over budget and more than likely making the wrong movie
• can't get the attention of an indie studio
• should have started with a short film...

A retrospective of Italian auteur Dario Argento's films; The ArgentoSyndrome is an examination of a career marked by such genre classics as Suspiria, Deep Red, Tenebrae, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Opera.

The Argento Syndrome is part academic study, with essays on every film, and
part personal memoir, detailing the author's time in Italy on a trip to
visit the set of Sleepless.

Also included are several full-length interviews with such personalities as
John Carpenter, Tony Musante, Luciano Tovoli, Leigh McCloskey and Asia
Argento.
...

Visionary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino burst onto the cinematic scene in 1992 with the bloody actioner Reservoir Dogs. He has since become the cinema's most recognizable film director since Alfred Hitchcock. He has gone on to write and direct some of the greatest films ever made, including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained. Each of his films are must-see affairs resulting in countless accolades, Academy Awards, and box-office gold.

This new book, Conversations on Quentin Tarantino, tells...

Welcome, fans of horror Come and learn something new about those that have so welcomingly terrified us over the past few decades

We see them all the time on screens big and small--those who commit these horrible acts, and some who find the hidden strength and courage to fight them off and save everyone

But how did they become so? Ever wondered just how a performer could go so smoothly from a warm, friendly member of society into a creation of pure evil that haunts our dreams? Or become a hero or heroine that faces down such malevolence?

Now we can find out.

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Welcome, fans of horror Come and learn something new about those that have so welcomingly terrified us over the past few decades

We see them all the time on screens big and small--those who commit these horrible acts, and some who find the hidden strength and courage to fight them off and save everyone

But how did they become so? Ever wondered just how a performer could go so smoothly from a warm, friendly member of society into a creation of pure evil that haunts our dreams? Or become a hero or heroine that faces down such...

This official companion book takes an in-depth look at the artwork and design of this extraordinary film. It explores the intricate inner workings of the wall and its arsenal of weaponry, designs of The Nameless Order's livery, blueprints of key locations and vivid concept art of the terrifying monsters created for the movie in lush detail.

Packed with fascinating storyboards,...