24p: Make Your Digital Movies Look Like Hollywood

by Gerald Everett Jones and Pete Shaner

Aimed at all digital video enthusiasts who aspire to achieve professional looking movie style results using inexpensive digital gear - how to make low-cost DV look like film. This book provides an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592005993
• ISBN13: 9781592005994
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

24p Make Your Digital Movies Look Like Hollywood

This book is my bible for filmmaking. AMAZING! An excellent book that covers all the bases of filmmaking from lighting and composition, to formats and equipment. A perfect starter book for the guerilla or even hobbyist filmmaker. Very easy to read and follow. The author doesn't bore you with a lot of fluff, just very straight and to the point fundamentals you can take straight to practice. I'm a google master and i've done and continue to do my research online but no single source will give you as much as starter/basic filmmaking techniques and information as this book. Excellently written, orderly and enjoyable to read.

I was satisfied

I got this book as a hand-me-down a few months ago, so I speak as somebody who got it for free. The content in the book covers how to shoot video in 24P, so it can be easily converted to film. Lighting and sound are important for this. We need to understand that making video look like film is very difficult, this book gives some details of things to do and things to avoid to help assist achieving the "look." I thought it did a great job at describing techniques that will help get the film look from video. Truth is, unless you have a 24P camcorder in your possession, this book is of little use. But, if you do have one, this book will help you utilize the option so it will enhance your chances of getting the film look. Plain and simple. If you already know Cinematography, and you think you may need to convert your video to film down the road, this is the book for you. Even if you just want a "better" looking movie, let this book tell you what types of lighting and equipment will help.

Interesting facts to know

Not to comment on any particular review, but browsers for filmmaking books may be interested in knowing that the short "Neo's Ring" on this book's DVD won a Platinum award at the Houston WorldFest. So it's impossible to understand how anyone who actually screened it would think that Shaner turns out anything but top-notch professional material. As to Shaner's qualifications, the front matter explains that he studied Hollywood-style film production at USC, wrote and directed a 35mm feature Lover's Knot that not only enjoyed popular theatrical release but also made its money back. More to the point for the 24p thing, he also shot the first 24p HD feature ever, Nicolas, with the same camera Lucas later used for Episode II. He's taught directing and digital production at UCLA Extension, and the folks at that prestigious film school refuse to employ instructors who don't know what they're doing!

Gotta love that guy on the cover!!!!!!!!

The book is worth just having that picture!