Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People

By Drew Campbell

Book Overview

Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People introduces film students, actors, producers and other nontechnical film people to the technical aspects that everyone working on a film set should know. Author Drew Campbell is a lighting and sound designer for Universal Studios who started out in theater and who was struck by the complex technical procedures and idiosyncratic expressions that he encountered on his first weeks on the set. Topics explained:

Who does what on a film set: the roles of technical and non-technical team members

Seeing a script: turning a story into a storyboard and then into a production

Shooting on film or video: when each format is best used

The parts of a camera: how it functions and how actors can best cooperate with it

Sound: the process of recording and editing

Shooting: the geography and schedule of a set and "getting the shot"

Postproduction: editing, continuity, and the dailies

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581152299
• ISBN13: 9781581152296
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Allworth Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

technical film /tv for technical people

I teach high school video production ,I am electronics /computer hardware type I found this book really cool beacuse it covered things that I had never had to deal with before or even concepts that I never used before this book was so helpful to me I bought 2 more copies and gave one to my theater teacher (along with the "stagecraft "book by the same author) beacause I also do the technical A/V for school productions and I bought a copy for my industry partner beacuse we are buliding a web broadcasting studio for him this book was a wealth if inforamtion and I highly recommend it thanks