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Extreme DV at Used-Car Prices How to Write, Direct, Shoot, Edit, and Produce a Digital Video Feature for LessThan $3,000

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ISBN-10: 0142004359

ISBN-13: 9780142004357

Edition: 2004

Authors: Rick Schmidt

List price: $18.00
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For years, award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt has been teaching aspiring writers, directors, and producers how to make no-budget films, both in workshops and in his classic guide, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices. Now Schmidt shows how it is easierand cheaperthan ever to make an innovative, high quality work, thanks to digital video. Filled with the latest information on equipment and software, ideas for experimenting with new techniques, and advice based on Schmidts own experiences, Extreme DV at Used-Car Pricesoffers a step-by-step tour through the making of a feature- length movie using the newest and ever-changing DV technology. Instructive and inspiring, this…    
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.54" wide x 8.46" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Foreword : "the path of the artist"
No concept/no premise mini-DV moviemaking
Three mini-DV case studies : shooting three features in three months
DV features 1 : twenty-three collaborators create a DV feature in nineteen days
DV feature 2 : the Port Townsend feature workshop, August 2002
DV feature 3 : Figueira da Foz International, Portugal
Budget for three DV features : $215 of mini-DV stock
You shoot the works : taking your DV project from script to preproduction
Selecting a viable concept for your DV feature
Scripting (or not ...)
The improv script
How to write specifically for DV
Scripting software that helps
Shopping your script and building a moviemaking team
Funding based on script
DV shooting script
Locking in : finalizing the movie script and concept
Committing to a shooting schedule
Paperwork
The contract
People work
Paid advertising to make it real
Investor presentations
Managing family and friends
Selecting your DV camera, sound gear, and incidentals
Budgeting DV equipment for a $3,000 total
Renting or buying a DV camera
Camera equipment overview : going into debt for art?
The best DV camera for you
Going Pro-DVCAM
Camera incidentals
Sound gear : matching inputs to your DV camera
Lighting for DV
The shooting schedule
Directing actors
Directing actors with a hand-held camera
Standard directing techniques
Full-partner actors
Shooting for cuts and continuity
Directing with the freeze technique
Remembering to shoot cutaways
Working with a crew
Maintaining the pace of the shoot and a sense of purpose
Changing directions : letting the movie "make you"!
Day one on the set of a DV feature
MAC of PC computer editing platform?
MAC
PC
Computer and software compatibility
Affordable editing software
Monitors
Nonlinear editing overview
Going Dogme 95
The Dogme 95 vow of chastity
Enacting the Dogme 95 rules : signing the vow of chastity
Electronic editing : Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, and more
Editing overview
Final Cut Express
Final Cut Pro
The real FCP editing begins ...
Down and dirty editing with Final Cut Pro 3 : deriving a feature from 200 minutes of footage
Eighteen tips for Final Cut Pro finish editing
Adobe Premiere Pro for PC
Advanced effects editing and animation software and techniques
Personal editing needs
Guerilla promotion : a Quicktime movie player at every Web site
www.withoutabox.com : festival-entering Web site
Selecting festivals for a world premiere
Your own interest six-plex movie theater
Quicktime movies
Playing movies on a free server
Promotion finale (TV sales and so on)
Reality check : more from Ray Carney's "the path of the artist"
DV vagabonds : shooting by van
www.vangoghsDV.com : making art with DV
Traveling artist and documentarian
Lightwave 3D animations
Space-age DV
Holographic technology and more
DV filmmaking and data
Holographic storage
Multiperson collaborative contract
Feature workshops agreement
Literary purchase option agreement
Actor's release
Location release
Music rights agreement