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the film book . com This site offers a preview of a practical guide to filmmaking, with a special emphasis on the cinematic image. This multimedia book is made of video, audio, images, and text and will appear on the web in installments , one volume at a time over the next few years. |
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Preview Edition This preview edition is a partial version of the first 2 volumes, with only 3 chapters, and with many sections missing. Access to the videos is free, but we ask you to login. The goal of the Preview Edition is to get feedback. You can write to the email at the bottom of the page. |
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For professionals & students Our hope is that these pages will be of lasting interest to professionals working on features, commercials and television, as well students and others interested in the process of filmmaking. Film is a technological art form, and we will cover both technology and art in depth, with an emphasis on practical examples and case studies. |
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Filmmaking taught by filmmakers Our teachers are filmmakers, and the practical lessons of the book are from encounters with cinematographers, directors, editors, actors, technologists... any one involved with the cinematic image. |
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Video, audio, images, text The material comes from exclusive webortages, video and audio interviews, as well as public workshops, master classes, film festivals and press conferences. Film sequences will be analyzed with our trademark Scene in a Mirror approach. |
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About the author Benjamin B ergery aka benjaminb is a cinema journalist, teacher and media technologist. He is the author of the 2002 book Reflections, and the editor of the first 2 issues of the French Lumieres review. He is European correspondent of the American Cinematographer magazine. Benjamin has taught at MIT and USC, and has worked at Atari, LucasFilm and Panavision. |
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