Explores the world of special effects in television and film, including special props, filming techniques, atmospheric effects, and experiments that can be done at home.
Presents a guide to cinematography for filmmakers, providing step by step information on camera operation, choosing film stocks, measuring light, and coordinating visual and audio elements. Includes illustrations.
Photo essay shows how special effects are created for movies, from idea to design to final take, and introduces some of the many people involved in the process.
Presents illustrations, descriptions, and specifications for over 150 vehicles and vessels that appear in the Star Wars movies, novels, comics, television specials, and games.
Presents a brief biography of Auguste and Louis Lumi?re, nineteenth century inventors, and provides information on their childhood, their education, and their achievements in science, including how they invented the Cinematographe.
Explores the history of motion picture production, key players in the process of making a film, a typical day of shooting, and how to pursue one's interest in the field, either as a career or as a hobby.
