Five Essential Steps in Digital Video : A DV Moviemaker's Tricks of the Trade

by Ohio, Denise

• ISBN13: 9780789726155
• ISBN10: 0789726157
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Que

Summary

Five Essential Steps in Digital Video is packed full of information for the novice to the seasoned producer. It covers the basics of DV technology and choosing the right equipment to planning your budget, digitizing your own music, and acquiring resources online. Selling a project has also been transformed by the Internet and the author explains which means of distribution would be the best for the reader's project.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Step I Development: Hunting and Gathering

Who Does What: Job Descriptions

An Equipment Overview

I Mean Business

Don't Tread on Me: Intellectual Property and Other Thorny Issues

Who's Buying What: Surveying the Market

What Do You Got and What Can You Get?

Searching for a Script

Writing a Script Yourself Checklists

Step II Preproduction: People, Places, and Things

Locking and Prepping Your Script

Production Design

Script Breakdown

Locking the Schedule

Locking the Budget

Scouting and Locking Locations

Build the Ensemble

Storyboards, Shooting Scripts, Shot Lists, and Rehearsals

Step III Production: Action!

Executing the Plan

Making Video Digital

The DV Camera

Lighting for DV

Lighting Techniques

Rigging

Capturing the Sound

Renting Gear

Props, Sets, and Set Dressing

Hair, Makeup, and Wardrobe

Explosions, Gunplay, and Fistfights: When to Call In the Experts

Step IV Postproduction: Directing the Movie

Postproduction Systems: Things to Consider

Cutting Picture

Post-Audio

Finishing

Step V Selling: How to Keep Your Shirt

Whom You're Selling To

Festivals and Markets

What You Sell: The Shape of Distribution

Agreements

Resources

Appendix

Index

About the DVD