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Digital Video Filmmaker's Handbook
Maxie D. Collier (2001, Lone Eagle Publishing Company, www.ifilm.com, 264 pages, $25)
Collier's handbook is a quick glance reference manual for many questions that hang on the FireWire cables of the novice budding DV storyteller. It offers quick, simplistic answers to DV technical riddles and once-overs of the production practices that have been perfected in Hollywood over the last century.
Although the references are brief, the Digital Video Filmmaker's Handbook has much to offer. Good tips are here for getting a production off the ground, under budget and how-to's that will fill out a list of "to do's" for the videographer working on a sh…
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