Your Guide to Basic Digital Filmmaking
Digital Filmmaking 101
Dale Newton and John Gaspard (2001, Michael Wiese Productions, www.mwp.com, 281 pages, $25)
Digital Filmmaking 101 is an informative and humorous guide to making feature-length movies with digital video.
Beginning with a few script ideas, it elaborates on budgeting and equipment choices (including discussions on whether to rent or buy certain equipment) as well as aspects of the business side. The book is a vast storehouse of ideas for acquiring capital, pre-production, casting, finding a crew, the production process, special effects, post and distribution. Newton and Gaspard have a very readable style with many first-person anecdotes, and add a lot of notes on their experiences while they made their movies Grown Men, Resident Alien and Be…
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