Hand Held Hollywood's Filmmaking with the iPad & iPhone
- By Taz Goldstein
- Published Dec 3, 2012 by Peachpit Press.
- Copyright 2013
- Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 384
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-86294-5
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-86294-5
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Product Author Bios
Taz Goldstein is a film and television director with a decade of experience. His work has won multiple awards at international festivals and has been enjoyed by more than 30 million television viewers. His popular blog, HandHeldHollywood.com, has helped the new generation of filmmakers navigate through the art of filmmaking using iPads, iPhones, applications, and accessories. Goldstein is currently working on the production of a feature comedy titled I'm Not a Homicidal Maniac, But I Play One on TV.
Filmmakers love gadgets. We flock to any new technology that demonstrates the slightest potential to help us conceptualize, visualize, and digitize our creative efforts. So why are we neglecting those touch-screen powerhouses hiding in our pockets and backpacks?
It’s time to make a change!
In Hand Held Hollywood’s Filmmaking with the iPad & iPhone, director Taz Goldstein exposes how these remarkable devices can aid in nearly every aspect of film and video production.
Written to empower aspiring filmmakers and reenergize working professionals, this book will help transform your iOS devices into revolutionary filmmaking tools, perfect for brainstorming, screenwriting, pitching, scheduling, storyboarding, camera blocking, shooting, editing, color correcting, mixing, distributing, and more. Time-tested techniques and film theory are woven into an entertaining and informative exploration of nearly 200 mind-blowing apps and accessories.
• Get up to speed quickly with clear, thorough, and friendly descriptions.
• Discover apps and accessories that can lower budgets by replacing thousands of dollars worth of traditional filmmaking equipment and software.
• Start shooting today with a wide range of video camera apps, including specialty tools for variable speed effects, filtering, stabilization, collaborative shooting, and more.
• Whether you’re starting a new video or finishing an existing one, this book features the most helpful apps for your iPad and iPhone—including the iPhone 5.
This unique and often humorous guide will benefit any mobile media maker who wants to get the most out of the technology they already own.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Taz Goldstein has been directing and producing for well over a decade. His award-winning films, television productions, and corporate projects have been enjoyed by millions of viewers worldwide. His popular website, HandHeldHollywood.com, has inspired and empowered a new generation of storytellers, and helped to launch the mobile filmmaking revolution.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
great book,
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Taz Goldstein really does his homework here. i am an app developer and never knew of all these apps. if your an indie filmmaker, this is the first tool you should have in your arsenal. great Job Taz.
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This review is from: Hand Held Hollywood's Filmmaking with the iPad & iPhone (Paperback)
A great little book covering many many different apps that filmmakers will find invaluable (whether they shoot on their iPhone itself, or use it to organise their shooting day) in just the right amount of depth to know whether or not it is what you are looking for.It also contains many useful tips for getting the most from many of the apps.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Enlightening and Funny,
This review is from: Hand Held Hollywood's Filmmaking with the iPad & iPhone (Paperback)
The name of the book "Filmmaking with the iPad & iPhone" by Taz Goldstein might cause many, even seasoned professionals, to think this is a book about shooting footage with the iPad/iPhone. After all, what gets covered in the press these days is the miraculous feat of filming a movie on a phone (parts of the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" were shot on the iPhone). To be sure, shooting is one part of the book, but this is a manual on how to use the iPad/iPhone through every stage of the process of making a film, from conceiving a screenplay, to pitching the project, prepping the shoot, filming, postproduction, all the way to posting your finished masterpiece to the web. Of course, you don't have to do it all on an iOS device, (although Goldstein proves that you can if you want), but what's great is you can pick and choose which pieces will work for you and use just those.Filmmaking, especially in the independent film world, is all about... Read more |
Online Sample Chapter
Filmmaking with Your iPad or iPhone: Prepping the Shoot
Table of Contents
PART ONE
development and pre-production
1 Stop Playing “Angry Birds” and Write That Script!
Mapping Your Mind
Structuring Your Story
Writing Your Screenplay
Using External Keyboards
Speaking Your Script
2 Don’t Just Sit There–Read a Script and Sit There
Reading Screenplays
Annotating Screenplays
Memorizing Screenplays
Finding Screenplays
3 Here’s the Pitch!
Presentation Apps
Where to Find Imagery
Following Up
4 Prepping the Shoot
Production Directories.
Tech Scouting
Scheduling
Call Sheets
Release Forms and Contracts
Digitizing Dead Trees
A Quick Word About Budgeting
PART TWO production
5 The Director’s Toolkit
Storyboarding for Artists
Storyboarding for Non-Artists
The Ultimate Director’s Viewfinder
Blocking Your Shots
Building a Rodriguez List
6 Lights! Camera! Airplane Mode!
Getting the Best Results.
The Best Video Camera Apps
Unique Video Cameras
Audio: Half of Good Video
7 Mount It, Mod It, and Mic It
Gearing Up Your iPhone
Your iPad, Only Better!
Awesome Extras
Step Up to the Mic
8 The Most Versatile Tools on Set
Teleprompters
Creating an Interrotron
Camera Calculations
The Ultimate Slate
Field Monitors and Instant Dailies
Let There Be Light
Contents ix
PART three postproduction and beyond
9 From Mess to Masterpiece
Importing Footage
Color Correcting Your Footage
Editing Footage
Composing the Score
Mixing Your Audio
Editing Extras
Learning More
10 It’s Done! Now What?
YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook
Selling Your Work
iPhone Film Festivals
Putting It On-Screen
The Last App in the Book
Additional Resources
Sample Pages
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