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The Movie Business Book

New York; London: Routledge, 4th ed. (2017), xxiii, 628 pp.
"Tapping experts in an industry experiencing major disruptions, The Movie Business Book is the authoritative, comprehensive sourcebook, covering online micro-budget movies to theatrical tentpoles. This book pulls back the veil of secrecy on producing, marketing, and distributing films, including bus ... more
"This edited collection focuses on successful small and medium-sized film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Using original interviews with company founders and other employees, contributors explore case studies of businesses that have made successfu ... more
"Video Ethnography in Practice is a brief guide for students in the social disciplines who are required to produce an ethnographic video, the most significant new methodological technique in 21st century social analysis. The authors, both accomplished videographers, cover the basic techniques of cre ... more

Handlungsempfehlungen für eine diversitätssensible Mediensprache

Frankfurt am Main: Goethe-Universität (2016), 94 pp.
"Im ersten Teil der Broschüre geht es um übergreifende Themen wie die Verwobenheit der Diversitätsdimensionen, die Möglichkeit, Diversität durch Binnenpluralität herzustellen, den Zusammenhang von Bildkomposition und Hierarchien und um die Besonderheiten des Mediums Video. Der zweite Teil beha ... more

Trickfilm to go: Leitfaden zur (Trick-)Filmarbeit mit mobiler Technik

Düsseldorf: Landesanstalt für Medien NRW;filmothek der jugend NRW (2016), 43 pp.
"Die Publikation "Die Trickboxx – Ein Leitfaden für die Praxis" beinhaltet umfassendes Material für die Umsetzung von Projekten mit traditioneller Technik und ist in den vergangenen zehn Jahren stark nachgefragt worden. Die vorliegende aktuelle Publikation "Trickfilm to go" knüpft daran an und ... more

Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change

New York; London: Routledge (2016), xiii, 256 pp.
"Today, social-issues storytellers are sharpening their craft, while funders with finite resources focus on reach, and strategic innovators bring more robust evaluation tools. Friesen illuminates the spark at the core of these three pursuits. Structured around stories from the front lines, Story Mon ... more

Producing and Directing the Short and Film Video

New York; London: Focal Press, 5th ed. (2015), xxviii, 468 pp.
"'Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video' is the definitive book on the subject for the serious film student or beginning filmmaker. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both the producer and director, and clearly explains how their separate roles must ... more
"Dos de los más exitosos profesionales de la TV argentina, Jorge Maestro y Pablo Culell, un autor y un productor, explican cómo generar productos exitosos en los medios audiovisuales repasando el paso a paso que va de la idea hasta la puesta en pantalla y estimulando la creatividad y la capacidad ... more

Writing and Producing for Television and Film

New Delhi et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2015), xiii 234 pp.
"This book is intended as a guide on the use of the visual media for behavior change communication. It is not intended as a textbook for those just entering the world of television or film writing and production. While there are some reminders of good writing and production techniques for many progr ... more

Produire un documentaire

Paris: Dixit éditions (2015), 167 pp.

Storytelling in virtuellen Welten

Konstanz; München: UVK (2014), 297 pp.
"David Lochner gibt einen Überblick über die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten des Erzählens im virtuellen Raum. Ob Animationsfilm, digitales Spiel oder interaktiver Film – sie alle bieten Autoren und Produzenten neue Wege, Geschichten zu erzählen: Visionen, Träume und Welten zu entwickeln, die da ... more
"Und nun hat auch der Duden eine kleine Hilfestellung für angehende Drehbuchschreiber veröffentlicht, die neben die deutschsprachigen Vorreiter von G. Koehler "Drehbuch schreiben" und N. Mosleh "Drehbuchschreiben" zu stehen kommt. Die Informationen zur richtigen Vorgehensweise bei der Drehbuchentw ... more

Television on the Wild, Wild Web: And How to Blaze Your Own Trail

Studio City, Calif.: Michael Wiese Productions (2014), xxi, 182 pp.
"Indie filmmakers have discovered that web television is a fantastic way to break into the industry, creating many opportunities. This book walks you through the crucial steps on how to fund, film, market, and distribute your web series opus." (Back cover)

Jeder kann Video! Filmen für Websites, YouTube und Blogs

Konstanz; München: UVK, 2nd, compl. revised ed. (2013), 183 pp.
"Using low-Cost videos within your agricultural development project can be an effective way for increasing the scale of your activities by leveraging the expertise of local experts and farmers for a broader audience. Since the videos may be created in the field by your staff, the cost will be lower ... more

Filmmaking for Change: Make Films That Transform the World

Seattle: Wiese Productions (2012), xii, 236 pp.
"[...] I present the three primary stages of the life of a movie, from the seed of an idea (Development) to the making of the film (Production) through the final delivery to the audience (Distribution). Throughout these general sections, as you will see in the Table of Contents, there are subcategor ... more