Single-Camera Video Production

By Robert B. Musburger

Book Overview

Learn everything you need to know about producing single-camera video, from preproduction planning to setting up, rehearsing, shooting, editing, and delivering. Master lighting, audio, and editing techniques that will enhance the quality of your video projects and captivate your audience.

Simple, elegant, and easy to use, Single-Camera Video Production, Sixth Edition is a staple in any video student or artist's library. Whether you're just learning the basics of video production or you're a veteran who needs a refresher, this book provides you with a toolkit for understanding and implementing single-camera workflows, as well as how to use the single-camera format to its best advantage by emphasizing the importance of goals, audience analysis, and technology. This new edition has been updated to include:

Expanded sections on digital workflows, field and studio production, preproduction planning, audio, lighting, distribution, and editing techniques

Detailed gear lists covering the latest camera, recorder, audio, lighting, and stabilization equipment used in the industry today

Fresh tips on creating video for your target audience and exhibition platform and shooting for the editing process

Insider career advice, including tips on how to get an internship, interviewing, finding a job, and earning a promotion

A companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/singlecam) with video examples of the techniques discussed in the book, as well as evolving updates on key technological shifts

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415822580
• ISBN13: 9780415822589
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Very useful

Musberger is a great book if you're serious about the craft of shooting. The book is written by a pro for pros and those who would like to be. The style is spare, precise, and clear. There is little flair in the book, but if you want to get better at shooting the information is here and well-explained. While the title is "single-camera", most of the information applies in almost any video shooting situation.

An excellent resource for student filmmakers

Now in a fully updated and expanded third edition, Single-Camera Video Production by Robert B. Musburger (Associate Professor, School of Communication, University of Houston), is a straightforward and highly recommended guide based upon the author's many years of practical field experience to planning, shooting, and editing video productions shot on location with essentially one camera at the filmmaker's disposal. An excellent resource for student filmmakers, Single-Camera Video Production offers a wealth of technical detail on audio signals, the scanning system, digital signal standards, camera controls, microphone types, and more, including sound advice on the social side of shooting film such as directing talent.