24P: Make Your Digital Movies Look Like Hollywood

By Gerald Everett Jones and Pete Shaner

Book Overview

Aimed at all digital video enthusiasts who aspire to achieve professional looking movie style results using inexpensive digital gear - how to make low-cost DV look like film. This book provides an in-depth understanding of how to shoot impressive movies on video without high-end gear and low-budget video perception. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592005993
• ISBN13: 9781592005994
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

24p Make Your Digital Movies Look Like Hollywood

This book is my bible for filmmaking. AMAZING! An excellent book that covers all the bases of filmmaking from lighting and composition, to formats and equipment. A perfect starter book for the guerilla or even hobbyist filmmaker. Very easy to read and follow. The author doesn't bore you with a lot of fluff, just very straight and to the point fundamentals you can take straight to practice. I'm a google master and i've...

I was satisfied

I got this book as a hand-me-down a few months ago, so I speak as somebody who got it for free. The content in the book covers how to shoot video in 24P, so it can be easily converted to film. Lighting and sound are important for this. We need to understand that making video look like film is very difficult, this book gives some details of things to do and things to avoid to help assist achieving the "look." I thought it did...

Interesting facts to know

Not to comment on any particular review, but browsers for filmmaking books may be interested in knowing that the short "Neo's Ring" on this book's DVD won a Platinum award at the Houston WorldFest. So it's impossible to understand how anyone who actually screened it would think that Shaner turns out anything but top-notch professional material. As to Shaner's qualifications, the front matter explains that he studied Hollywood-style...

Gotta love that guy on the cover!!!!!!!!

The book is worth just having that picture!