Cover -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Getting Started -- Better, Cheaper, Easier -- Who This Book Is For -- What Kind of Digital Film Should You Make? -- 2 Writing and Scheduling -- Screenwriting -- Finding a Story -- Structure -- Writing Visually -- Formatting Your Script -- Writing for Television -- Writing for "Unscripted" -- Writing for Corporate Projects -- Scheduling -- Breaking Down a Script -- Choosing a Shooting Order -- How Much Can You Shoot in a Day? -- Production Boards -- Scheduling for Unscripted Projects -- 3 Digital Video Primer -- What Is HD? -- Components of Digital Video -- Tracks -- Frames -- Scan Lines -- Pixels -- Audio Tracks -- Audio Sampling -- Working with Analog or SD Video -- Digital Image Quality -- Color Sampling -- Bit Depth -- Compression Ratios -- Data Rate -- Understanding Digital Media Files -- Digital Video Container Files -- Codecs -- Audio Container Files and Codecs -- Transcoding -- Acquisition Formats -- Unscientific Answers to Highly Technical Questions -- 4 Choosing a Camera -- Evaluating a Camera -- Image Quality -- Sensors -- Compression -- Sharpening -- White Balance -- Image Tweaking -- Lenses -- Lens Quality -- Lens Features -- Interchangeable Lenses -- Never Mind the Reasons, How Does It Look? -- Camera Features -- Camera Body Types -- Manual Controls -- Focus -- Shutter Speed -- Aperture Control -- Image Stabilization -- Viewfinder -- Interface -- Audio -- Media Type -- Wireless -- Batteries and AC Adaptors -- DSLRs -- Use Your Director of Photography -- Accessorizing -- Tripods -- Field Monitors -- Remote Controls -- Microphones -- Filters -- All That Other Stuff -- What You Should Choose -- 5 Planning Your Shoot -- Storyboarding -- Shots and Coverage -- Camera Angles -- Computer-Generated Storyboards -- Less Is More -- Camera Diagrams and Shot Lists -- Location Scouting -- Production Design.

Art Directing Basics -- Building a Set -- Set Dressing and Props -- DIY Art Direction -- Visual Planning for Documentaries -- Effects Planning -- Creating Rough Effects Shots -- 6 Lighting -- Film-Style Lighting -- The Art of Lighting -- Three-Point Lighting -- Types of Light -- Color Temperature -- Types of Lights -- Wattage -- Controlling the Quality of Light -- Lighting Gels -- Diffusion -- Lighting Your Actors -- Tutorial: Three-Point Lighting -- Interior Lighting -- Power Supply -- Mixing Daylight and Interior Light -- Using Household Lights -- Exterior Lighting -- Enhancing Existing Daylight -- Video Lighting -- Low-Light Shooting -- Special Lighting Situations -- Lighting for Video-to-Film Transfers -- Lighting for Blue and Green Screen -- 7 Using the Camera -- Setting Focus -- Using the Zoom Lens -- Controlling the Zoom -- Exposure -- Aperture -- Shutter Speed -- Gain -- Which One to Adjust? -- Exposure and Depth of Field -- White Balancing -- Composition -- Headroom -- Lead Your Subject -- Following Versus Anticipating -- Don't Be Afraid to Get Too Close -- Listen -- Eyelines -- Clearing Frame -- Beware of the Stage Line -- TV Framing -- Breaking the Rules -- Camera Movement -- Panning and Tilting -- Zooms and Dolly Shots -- Tracking Shots -- Handholding -- Deciding When to Move -- Shooting Checklist -- 8 Production Sound -- What You Want to Record -- Microphones -- What a Mic Hears -- How a Mic Hears -- Types of Mics -- Mixing -- Connecting It All Up -- Wireless Mics -- Setting Up -- Placing Your Mics -- Getting the Right Sound for the Picture -- Testing Sound -- Reference Tone -- Managing Your Set -- Recording Your Sound -- Room Tone -- Run-and-Gun Audio -- Gear Checklist -- 9 Shooting and Directing -- The Shooting Script -- Updating the Shooting Script -- Directing -- Rehearsals -- Managing the Set -- Putting Plans into Action.

Double-Check Your Camera Settings -- The Protocol of Shooting -- Respect for Acting -- Organization on the Set -- Script Supervising for Scripted Projects -- Documentary Field Notes -- 10 DSLRs and Other Advanced Shooting Situations -- What's Different with a DSLR? -- DSLR Camera Settings for HD Video -- Working with Interchangeable Lenses -- What Lenses Do I Need? -- How to Get a Shallow Depth of Field -- Measuring and Pulling Focus -- Measuring Focus -- Pulling Focus -- Advanced Camera Rigging and Supports -- Viewing Video on the Set -- Double-System Audio Recording -- How to Record Double-System Audio -- Multi-Cam Shooting -- Multi-Cam Basics -- Challenges of Multi-Cam Shoots -- Going Tapeless -- On-set Media Workstations -- Media Cards and Workflow -- Organizing Media on the Set -- Audio Media Workflow -- Shooting Blue-Screen Effects -- 11 Editing Gear -- Setting Up a Workstation -- CPU -- RAM -- Storage -- Monitors -- Videotape Interface -- Custom Keyboards and Controllers -- Backing Up -- Networked Systems -- Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) -- Cloud Storage -- Render Farms -- Audio Equipment -- Digital Video Cables and Connectors -- FireWire -- HDMI -- SDI and HD-SDI -- Fibre Channel -- Thunderbolt -- RS-422 -- Audio Interfaces -- Know What You Need -- 12 Editing Software -- The Interface -- Editing Tools -- Drag-and-Drop Editing -- Three-Point Editing -- JKL Editing -- Insert and Overwrite Editing -- Trimming -- Ripple and Roll, Slip and Slide -- Multi-Camera Editing -- Advanced Features -- Organizational Tools -- Importing Media -- Effects and Titles -- Types of Effects -- Titles -- Audio Tools -- Equalization -- Audio Effects and Filters -- Audio Plug-In Formats -- Mixing -- OMF Export -- Finishing Tools -- Our Software Recommendations -- Know What You Need -- 13 Preparing to Edit -- Organizing Your Media.

Create a Naming System -- Setting Up Your Project -- Importing and Transcoding -- Capturing Tape-based Media -- Logging -- Capturing -- Importing Audio -- Importing Still Images -- Moving Media -- Sorting Media After Ingest -- How to Sort by Content -- Synchronizing Double-System Sound and Picture -- Preparing Multi-Camera Media -- Troubleshooting -- 14 Editing -- Editing Basics -- Applied Three-Act Structure -- Building a Rough Cut -- Watch Everything -- Radio Cuts -- Master Shot-Style Coverage -- Tutorial: Creating a First Cut -- Editing Techniques -- Cutaways and Reaction Shots -- Matching Action -- Matching Screen Position -- Overlapping Edits -- Matching Emotion and Tone -- Pauses and Pull-Ups -- Hard Sound Effects and Music -- Tutorial: Refining Your Cut -- Transitions Between Scenes -- Hard Cuts -- Dissolves, Fades, and Wipes -- Establishing Shots -- Clearing Frame and Natural "Wipes" -- Solving Technical Problems -- Missing Elements -- Temporary Elements -- Multi-Cam Editing -- Fine Cutting -- Editing for Style -- Duration -- The Big Picture -- 15 Sound Editing -- Sounding Off -- Setting Up -- Temp Mixes -- Audio Levels Metering -- Clipping and Distortion -- Using Your Editing App for Sound -- Dedicated Sound Editing Apps -- Moving Your Audio -- Editing Sound -- Unintelligible Dialogue -- Changes in Tone -- Is There Extraneous Noise in the Shot? -- Are There Bad Video Edits That Can Be Reinforced with Audio? -- Is There Bad Audio? -- Are There Vocal Problems You Need to Correct? -- Dialogue Editing -- ADR -- Non-Dialogue Voice Recordings -- EQ Is Your Friend -- Sound Effects -- Sound Effect Sources -- Music -- Editing Music -- License to Play -- Finding a Composer -- Do It Yourself -- Fix It in the Mix -- 16 Color Correction -- Color Correction -- Advanced Color Controls -- Seeing Color -- A Less Scientific Approach.

Too Much of a Good Thing -- Brightening Dark Video -- Compensating for Overexposure -- Correcting Bad White Balance -- Matching Footage from Different Cameras and Shoots -- Using Tracks and Layers to Adjust Color -- Black-and-White Effects -- Correcting Color for Film -- Making Your Video Look Like Film -- One More Thing -- 17 Titles and Effects -- Titles -- Choosing Your Typeface and Size -- Ordering Your Titles -- Coloring Your Titles -- Placing Your Titles -- Safe Titles -- Tutorial: Create Your Main Title -- Motion Effects -- Keyframes and Interpolating -- Slow-Mo and Speed Ramps -- Integrating Still Images and Video -- Special Effects Workflow -- Compositing 101 -- Keys -- Tutorial: Creating a Luminance Key -- Tutorial: Using a Chroma Key -- Keying Tips -- Mattes -- Mixing SD and HD Footage -- Tutorial: Adding Camera Shake -- Using Effects to Fix Problems -- Eliminating Camera Shake -- Getting Rid of Things -- Moving On -- 18 Finishing -- What Do You Need? -- Start Early -- What Is Mastering? -- What to Do Now -- Preparing for Film Festivals -- DIY File-Based Masters -- Preparing Your Sequence -- Color Grading -- Create a Mix -- Make a Textless Master -- Export Your Masters -- Watch Your Export -- Web Video and Video-on-Demand -- Streaming or Download? -- Compressing for the Web -- Choosing a Data Rate -- Choosing a Keyframe Interval -- DVD and Blu-Ray Discs -- DVD and Blu-Ray Compression -- DVD and Blu-Ray Disc Authoring -- High-End Finishing -- Reel Changes -- Preparing for a Professional Audio Mix -- Preparing for Professional Color Grading -- Putting Audio and Video Back Together -- Digital Videotape Masters -- 35mm Film Prints -- The Film Printing Process -- Printing from a Negative -- Direct-to-Print -- Optical Soundtracks -- Digital Cinema Masters -- Archiving Your Project -- GLOSSARY -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K.

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