Focal Press DSLR Cinema: A beginner's Guide to Filmmaking on a Budget

This soft cover version of DSLR Cinema: A beginner's Guide to Filmmaking on a Budget by Kurt Lancaster covers the DSLR cinema revolution that began over ten years ago. Professional filmmakers, students, video journalists, event video shooters, production houses, and others jumped at the opportunity to shoot cinematic images on these low budget cameras. The first edition of the book mapped the way focusing exclusively on DSLRs. This new edition shows how you can create stunning cinematic images using low budget cinema cameras, from iPhones to the C200.

The author examines new cameras and new projects as filmmakers shoot action movies with the Panasonic GH5, craft personal stories with Blackmagic's Pocket Cinema Camera, make documentaries and short films with the Canon C100 Mark II, and create music videos with the 5D Mark IV.

This book, like the previous edition, takes the wisdom of some of the best shooters and empowers you to create visually stunning images with low budget cinema cameras. It includes six all new case studies, as well as updated examples from short films and documentaries. This book contains the essential tools to make you a better visual storyteller.

• Description
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction - The Rise and Fall of the DSLR Cinema Revolution
• Chapter 1 - Composition, Lenses, Blocking, and Camera Movement
• Chapter 2 - Lighting
• Chapter 3 - Exposure
• Chapter 4 - Recording Quality Audio
• Chapter 5 - Postproduction Workflow
• Chapter 6 - Telling Better Stories
• Chapter 7 - Cinematic Gear on a Budget
• Chapter 8 - David Tembleque: Blackmagic's Pocket Cinema Camera in Dear Tom
• Chapter 9 - Joe Simon: Canon's C100 Mark II in Fragments by Dana Beasley
• Chapter 10 - Philip Bloom: Canon's 7D in A Day at the Races
• Chapter 11 - Kiril Kirkov: Documentary Intimacy with the Canon 5D Mark III in Art of the People
• Chapter 12 - Po Chan and Shane Hurlbut: Canon's 5D Mark II in The Last 3 Minutes
• Chapter 13 - J. Van Auken: Filming Action with Panasonic's GH5 in Unmasked
• Chapter 14 - Mari Cleven: Filming Documentaries on the Canon C100 Mark II
• Chapter 15 - Bibbi Abruzzini: Filming Documentaries on the Canon 5D Mark IV
• Conclusion
• Index