The Digital Filmmaking Handbook

Since the advent of digital video and desktop editing software, scores of independent producers have become equipped to make their own movies. But because filmmaking involves much more than just buying a camera and a computer, there's The Digital Filmmaki...

  DV Filmmaking From Start to Finish

Thanks to the digital revolution, film artists now have a spectacular array of powerful, new, inexpensive tools for creative expression through digital film. The once powerful studios can no longer stifle an artist's creativity. With the power of the Inte...

 Practical DV Filmmaking

Master low-budget filmmaking principles with easy step-by-step techniques and practical projects Develop a real world perspective through case studies and interviews with successful filmmakers Combine technical know-how with stylistic approaches to fi...

 HDV Filmmaking

Ready to move from DV into the HDV realm? High-definition video, or HDV, is the latest technology to answer the demand for better-quality video images. Indeed, this format has greatly improved the overall quality of digital video, but capturing, editing, ...

 Hillman Curtis on Creating Short Films for the Web

Legendary Web designer and author Hillman Curtis has always been fascinated by motion and movement. In 2001, inspired in part by the affordability and accessibility of digital video, he began to experiment with short digital films in an effort to reinvigo...