Desktop Digital Video Production (Prentice Hall Imsc Press Multimedia Series
Explains step-by-step how to create & present digital video for multimedia by providing real examples & outlining hardware & software requirements. Paper. CD-ROM included. DLC: Video tapes - Editing - Data processing.Top digital video producer Frederic H. Jones walks you step-by-step through every element of digital video production, including: video acquisition, lighting and Chroma Key; sound acquisition and processing; Read the rest of this entry »
Film Finance & Distribution: A Dictionary of Terms
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Film Finance and Distribution defines those thorny legal and financial terms that often elude novice filmmakers and impede their attempts to secure financing and distribution. The entries provide commentary on approaches to film finance and distribution, definitions of production and post-production technical terms, definitions of unique film-industry practices and procedures in a variety of areas, and an extensive cross-referencing of terms. Cones offers definitions and advice. Read the rest of this entry »
Meg Ryan
I won’t get into Meg’s stuff, but she of all people had a reason to be a pessimist about life . . . So I decided I was going to be an optimist . . . like Meg.
— Dennis Quaid
NOT since silent screen star Mary Pickford has the title of America’s Sweetheart been given such [...]
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born 6 November 1931) is an American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of only ten people to have won all the major American entertainment awards: an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award.
Early years:
Nichols was born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany, the son of Brigitte Landauer (his [...]
Mariel Hemingway
Actress, producer. Born on November 22, 1961 in Mill Valley, Idaho. The granddaughter of celebrated author Ernest Hemingway, Mariel began her career in the shadow of her two famous relatives: her grandfather and her older sister, model/actress Margaux Hemingway.
James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator and Titanic. To date, his directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$1.1 billion domestically, unadjusted for inflation. After several feature films, Cameron turned his focus to documentary filmmaking and the co-development of the [...]
Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell (April 29, 1909 – September 12, 1994) was an American actor.
Early life and career:Born Samuel Yewell Tompkins in Owensboro, Kentucky, where his family expected him to follow in their footsteps as lawyers or whiskey and tobacco dealers.
Norman Jewison
Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont (born 21 July 1926) is a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre.
Early life
Jewison was born in Toronto, the son of Dorothy Irene and Percy Joseph Jewison, who managed a general store and post office.
Nunnally Johnson
American screenwriter, producer, and director, who made scripts to such film as THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940, dir. by John Ford), THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944, dir. by Fritz Lang), and HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953), starring Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, and Betty Grable. Several of Johnson’s screenplays were based on best-selling novels [...]
Sidney Buchman
Screenwriter and producer Sidney Buchman is notable for his sophisticated comedies such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Here Comes Mister Jordan. Born in Duluth, Minnesota and educated at the University of Minnesota and Columbia, Buchman began his career working at London’s Old Vic theater as an assistant stage director.
He later returned stateside to [...]
