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Subject: Good Book On Movie Making

Steve K. opened this issue on Jul 24, 2015 · 4 posts
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Steve K. ( ) posted Fri, 24 July 2015 at 7:44 PM · edited Wed, 10 June 2026 at 12:47 AM

The 48 Hour Film contest is coming up here in Houston, so I dusted off some of my movie making books for a refresher.  One that I like is:

Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know

http://tinyurl.com/pkm2q5t

$16 at Amazon and well worth it IMHO.  The excerpt Amazon gives is not the best section, I think.  For my purposes, I like the chapter on "Camera Motion".  The idea is to tell the story visually, with little or no dialogue (always good for a 2 day contest, no voice acting & lip syncing), and also I try to avoid characters walking around, just more animation to do.  Moving the camera is pretty easy in Carrara, probably much easier than for the live action folks.  I mean, crane shots with no crane ... or drone ...

headwax. ( ) posted Sat, 25 July 2015 at 3:52 AM

thanks for that :) no drones, i like that.!

DUDU.car ( ) posted Sat, 25 July 2015 at 12:35 PM · edited Sat, 25 July 2015 at 12:35 PM

I make real movies since I was 25 years old (60 next month) and a drone is a dream for a filmmaker.

When I see the evolution from argentic to numeric, from SD to HD and now these drones, I think I was born to early !

Steve K. ( ) posted Sun, 26 July 2015 at 5:37 PM

DUDU -

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

  • Arthur C. Clarke

P.S. A friend just got his new Canon Powershot SX60 HS, with 65x zoom ... and WiFi ... and ...

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