Focal Press Understanding Design in Film Production: Using Art, Light and Locations to Tell Your Story

This soft cover version of Understanding Design in Film Production: Using Art, Light and Locations to Tell Your Story from Focal Press is a book that understands that Great visual storytelling is possible on a minimal budget, but you have to spend a lot of energy thinking and planning. In Understanding Design in Film Production, author Barbara Freedman Doyle demonstrates how to use production design, cinematography, lighting, and locations to create an effective and compelling visual story, even on the tightest of budgets.

Featuring in-depth interviews with production designers, set decorators, construction coordinators, cinematographers, costumers, and location managers talking about the techniques of their craft, it provides you with a feel for what everyone on the visual team does, how they think and plan, and how best to utilize the knowledge and skills they offer.

This book guides you through how to find, secure, and manage the best locations, how to create and dress a set, and how to make old look new and new look old-all on a tight budget. With insights from experts at the top of their field, sharing how they plan for the real-world application of large-scale ideas, you'll be able to see ways to apply their techniques to your own smaller-scale productions.

Understanding Design in Film Production is a practical, hands-on guide for any aspiring filmmaker who wants to understand the basic principles of visual design in order to create exceptional looking films.

• Description
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: What Is Your Movie About?
• Chapter 2: Some Components of Visual Design
• Chapter 3: The Vision - and Collaboration
• <b>Section 2: The Collaborators</b>
• Chapter 4: Designing, Building, Painting
• Chapter 5: The Decorator
• Chapter 6: Locations
• Chapter 7: Lighting and Picture
• Chapter 8: Costumes and Props
• Chapter 9: Visual Effects and Animation
• Chapter 10: Why All This Talk About Authenticity?
• <b>Section 3: Your Low Budget Film or TV Project</b>
• Chapter 11: Putting All This Together
• Chapter 12: Planning Your Project: Building it, Finding it, or Both?
• Chapter 13: Shooting Your Film on Distant Location
• Chapter 14: Your Process
• Chapter 15: Practical Matters: Location Agreements, Permits, Insurance
• Chapter 16: How to Be Your Own Location Manager
• Chapter 17 What You Need to Do What You Want: Demystifying the Budget
• Chapter 18: Learning the Craft: Starting Out
• Chapter 19: Doing What You Want with What You Have: Student Films
• Chapter 20: Visual Storytelling in Making the Sale
• Chapter 21: Entering the Profession
• Chapter 22: Suggested Viewing