This book covers both the artistry and craftsmanship of cinematography and visual storytelling. Few art forms are as tied to their tools and technology as is cinematography. Take your mastery of these new tools, techniques, and roles to the next level with this cutting-edge roadmap from author and filmmaker Blain Brown.

This 4th edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to include detailed information on the latest lighting and camera equipment, as well as expanded and updated discussion on the following areas: shooting on a budget, color spaces with emphasis on the new UHD standards, the decision-making process in choosing what lights and equipment to use, considerations concerning power issues, safety and what electrical supply is needed for various types of lights, an examination of the cinematographer’s role in preproduction, and much more.

Topics Include:

• Visual storytelling

• Continuity and coverage

• Cameras and digital sensors

• The tools and basics of film lighting

• Methods of shooting a scene

• Continuity and coverage

• Exposure

• Color

• Understanding digital images

• Using linear, gamma, and log video

• Image control and grading on the set

• Data management and the DIT

• Optics and focus

• Camera movement

• Set operations

• Green screen, high speed, and other topics.

Whether you are a student of filmmaking, someone just breaking into the business, working in the field and looking to move up the ladder, or an experienced filmmaker updating your knowledge of tools and techniques, this book provides both the artistic background of visual language and also the craft of shooting for continuity, lighting tools and methods, and the technical side of capturing images on digital or on film.

The companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/brown) features additional material, including lighting demonstrations, basic methods of lighting, methods of shooting a scene, using diffusion, and other topics.

Table of Contents

1.Writing with Motion

2. The Frame

3. Language of the Lens

4. Continuity

5. Shooting Methods

6. Camera

7. Measuring Digital

8. Exposure

9. Linear, Gamma, Log

10. Color

11. Image Control

12. Lighting Sources

13. Lighting

14. Controlling Light

15. Gripology

16. Camera Movement

17. Optics & Focus

18. Set Operations

19. DIT & Workflow

20. Power & Distro

21. Technical Issues

- Explores technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting for film and video. It covers not only how to light, but why. - In-depth coverage of light and color theory, latest technology and equipment, and professional techniques. - A robust companion website includes updated video tutorials and other resources for students and professionals alike.

Not just a comprehensive guide to current professional practices - it goes beyond to explain the theory behind the practice, so you understand how the rules came about and when it's appropriate to break them. Presents the basics and beyond, employing clear explanations of standard practice together with substantial illustrations and diagrams to reveal the real world of film production and covering the most up-to-date information on equipment. Also has an accompanying companion website with hours of video footage offering key instruction in topics such as camera basics, lighting essentials, shooting methods, and much more.

It's a whole new world for cinematographers, camera assistants, and postproduction artists. New equipment, new methods, and new technologies have to be learned and mastered. New roles such as that of the DIT (Digital Imaging Technician), Digital Loader, and Data Manager are integral to today's motion picture production process. Take your mastery of these new tools, techniques, and roles to the next level with this cutting-edge roadmap from esteemed author and filmmaker Blain Brown. The Filmmaker's Guide to Digital Imaging covers both the theory and the practice, featuring full-color, in-depth coverage of essential terminology, technology, and industry-standard best-practices. Brown covers new industry-wide production standards such as ASC-CDL and the ACES workflow. Interviews with professional cinematographers and DITs working on Hollywood productions equip you with knowledge that is essential if you want to work in today's motion picture industry, whether as a cinematographer, DIT, Digital Loader, Data Manager, camera assistant, editor, or VFX artist. Topics include: Digital sensors and cameras The structure of digital images Waveform monitors, vectorscopes, and test charts Using linear, gamma, and log encoded video files Exposure techniques for HD and UltraHD Understanding digital color Codecs and file formats The DIT cart Downloading, ingesting, and managing video files Workflow from camera to DIT cart to post Using metadata and timecode The companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/brown) features additional material, including demonstrations and interviews with experienced DITs and cinematographers.

The Basics of Filmmaking is an introductory textbook tailored to the needs of beginning and intermediate film students and independent filmmakers that expertly guides you through the entirety of the craft, from screenwriting all the way through to editing, with detailed chapters covering each department involved in the filmmaking process. The book takes a behind-the-scenes look at every aspect of the filmmaking process: writing the screenplay (and getting it critiqued by a professional), pre-production, cinematography, lighting, the shooting process, getting good audio, editing, and even going to a pitch meeting to sell it. It addresses the real fundamentals, the mechanics and the basic concepts of how to write, produce, direct, shoot, record, and edit your movie. Written by Blain Brown, a seasoned expert who has worked professionally as a cinematographer, screenwriter, director, producer, line producer, assistant director, gaffer, grip, and editor; this is a must have resource for any filmmaking student. Featuring an accompanying companion website with video examples of scene directing methods, continuity and coverage, working with the camera, lighting, audio, and editing, and downloadable production forms you can fill out and use for your projects.

The Basics of Filmmaking is an introductory textbook tailored to the needs of beginning and intermediate film students and independent filmmakers that expertly guides you through the entirety of the craft, from screenwriting all the way through to editing, with detailed chapters covering each department involved in the filmmaking process.

The book takes a behind-the-scenes look at every aspect of the filmmaking process: writing the screenplay (and getting it critiqued by a professional), pre-production, cinematography, lighting, the shooting process, getting good audio, editing, and even going to a pitch meeting to sell it. It addresses the real fundamentals, the mechanics and the basic concepts of how to write, produce, direct, shoot, record, and edit your movie.

Written by Blain Brown, a seasoned expert who has worked professionally as a cinematographer, screenwriter, director, producer, line producer, assistant director, gaffer, grip, and editor; this is a must have resource for any filmmaking student.

Featuring an accompanying companion website with video examples of scene directing methods, continuity and coverage, working with the camera, lighting, audio, and editing, and downloadable production forms you can fill out and use for your projects.

Table of Contents

FILMMAKING THE BASICS

WRITING YOUR STORY

PRODUCTION

THE AD TEAM

CONTINUITY AND COVERAGE

THE WORK OF THE DIRECTOR

CINEMATOGRAPHY

LIGHTING AND GRIP

THE ART DEPARTMENT

SLATING AND SCRIPTY

AUDIO BASICS

THE WORK OF THE EDITOR

SAFETY

GETTING STARTED IN THE BUSINESS

TERMINOLOGY

RESOURCES

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It s a whole new world for cinematographers, camera assistants, and postproduction artists. New equipment, new methods, and new technologies have to be learned and mastered. New roles such as that of the DIT (Digital Imaging Technician), Digital Loader, and Data Manager are integral to today s motion picture production process. Take your mastery of these new tools, techniques, and roles to the next level with this cutting-edge roadmap from esteemed author and filmmaker Blain Brown.

"The Filmmaker s Guide to Digital Imaging "covers both the theory and the practice, featuring full-color, in-depth coverage of essential terminology, technology, and standard industry best-practices. Brown covers new industry-wide production standards such as ASC-CDL and the ACES workflow. Interviews with professional cinematographers and DITs working on Hollywood productions equip you with knowledge that is essential if you want to work in today s motion picture industry, whether as a cinematographer, DIT, Digital Loader, Data Manager, camera assistant, editor, or VFX artist."

Topics include:

• "
• Digital sensors and cameras
• The structure of digital images
• Waveform monitors, vectorscopes, and test charts
• Using linear, gamma, and log encoded video files
• Exposure techniques for HD and UltraHD
• Understanding digital color
• Codecs and file formats
• The DIT cart
• Downloading, ingesting, and managing video files
• Workflow from camera to DIT cart to post
• Using metadata and timecode

The companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/brown) features additional material, including demonstrations and interviews with experienced DITs and cinematographers. "

This fully revised and updated fourth edition of Motion Picture and Video Lighting explores the technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting for film and video. It covers not only how to light, but also why. The process of lighting is emphasized, as well as practical techniques and visual storytelling with light.

Written by experienced filmmaker, film school teacher, and author Blain Brown, this book emphasizes how the image, the mood, and the visual impact of a film are, to a great extent, determined by the skill and sensitivity of the director of photography in using lighting. It provides an indispensable, highly illustrated, and comprehensive guide to making every scene look its best.

This new edition has been expanded to provide further guidance at the introductory level for students, those just starting their careers, and people already working in the business who want to move up.

Topics include:

Lighting Sources

LEDs

The Lighting Process

Lighting Basics

Controlling Light

Lighting Scenes

A Lighting Playbook

Storytelling With Light

Electricity and Distribution

Gripology

Set Operations

Technical Issues

A robust accompanying companion website also includes video tutorials and other resources for students and professionals alike, including lighting demonstrations, basic methods of lighting, using diffusion, color control, and other topics.

Table of Contents

1. Evolution of Lighting 2. Equipment 3. Fundamentals 4. Lighting Scenes 5. Light & Storytelling 6. Exposure 7. Using Color 8. Controlling Light 9. Power & Distro 10. Gripology 11. Effects 12. Set Operations 13. Appendix

A rift has opened between Washington policy and Middle American will. This ever-deepening divide animates the most polarized political culture America has seen in more than a century: It permeates bitter partisan clashes, creates contemporary congressional gridlock, and determines the outcome of national elections. It has also resulted in a disruptive, leaderless, passionate, Party-independent, anti-Washington, grass-roots coalition-the Tea Party Movement.

This political rift and the resulting Tea Movement baffle establishment thinkers, Republican and Democrat Party leadership, and Tea Partiers alike. "Tea With Socialists" explains today's political divide and the rise of the Tea Movement as follows:

"While Washington has adopted socialism, Middle America has not."

American socialism dug the chasm separating Washington and Middle America, and thereby unwittingly laid the foundation for the rise, fervor, and agenda of the Tea Movement. In "Tea With Socialists" author Blaine Brown explores today's political divide by detailing socialist "method"-namely, American socialist technique for pursuing socialist revolution in spite of an unwilling Middle American majority. "Tea With Socialists" exposes socialism's stepwise procedure for establishing socialism in America, including how American socialists: create new and unelected branches of government to pursue socialism without fear of electoral reprisals; control Middle American language (and therefore also Middle American thought); eradicate Middle America through both legal and illegal Third-World immigration; assemble in Middle America's place a foreign underclass which demands socialism in America; distract Middle Americans from national decline by means of bread and circuses; search millions of innocent Americans' genitals in violation of the Fourth Amendment; reinterpret the Constitution without amendment; bully the Supreme Court into approving socialist programs like Obamacare; and commandeer career politicians once they are seated in Washington, D.C.

"Tea With Socialists" explains why American socialism settled on a quiet, gradual revolution in the first place, why Middle Americans reject socialist method, how Middle Americans are beginning to fight back-and what it means for America.