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Audiobook Acting: A Masterclass in the Art and the Business is the roadmap to compelling audiobook storytelling. Written as if you are in a personal coaching session with Taro Meyer, each chapter focuses on a single topic and offers illuminating stories and workouts that allow you to practice and progress at your own pace. New actors will learn to handle any type of book--as well as howto produce a demo, make submissions, and access industry r...

Today's film industry is a legal and financial obstacle course that independent filmmakers must learn to master. The most comprehensive guide to negotiating that obstacle course is The Biz, a highly accessible overview of the industry's important business, legal, and financial aspects. Filled with industry-savvy advice, it clearly explains: raising financing business structuring securities laws budgeting essentials loans completion guarantees ...

Clearance & Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film, Television, and Other Creative Content, Revised, Updated, and Expanded 5th Edition" is a guide to almost every conceivable rights issue that filmmakers, videomakers, television producers, and Internet content creators might encounter. Completely up-to-date and greatly expanded from its previous edition"--

Naked Playwriting" is a complete, comprehensive playwriting course-from developing a theme through plotting and structuring a play, developing characters, creating dialog, formatting a script, and plying methods that aid the actual writing and rewriting processes. It also offers guidance on marketing and submitting play scripts for both contests and production, getting an agent, protecting one's copyright, and working with directors, actors, a...

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How to Sell Yourself as an Actor is the only guide to the ins and outs of the acting business that's actually written by a working actor. This popular book, now in its seventh edition, addresses the age-old question of how to merchandise your craft after you have learned it, and has become required reading for beginning actors as well as trained veterans, whether they live in big cities or small towns. Here you'll find vital, down-to-earth inf...

Greenlighting Yourself is chock-full of practical advice about choosing, preparing for, getting your foot in the door of, and succeeding at writing, producing, acting, and directing for film and television. Throughout the book, the author's advice is illustrated with anecdotes about many of his notable friends, such as Ray Bradbury and Guillermo del Toro. The myriad topics it covers include committing yourself to a career, developing sound wor...

From the bestselling author of How to Reassess Your Chess and Silman's Complete Endgame Course comes a new book. Part instructional, part history, and part memoir, International Master Jeremy Silman pays homage to the game he loves. Chess is a strategic battle, a struggle for power and dominance. It can become an obsession, or can simply be a game to be enjoyed. When played at its highest level it is an art form.In Chess Odyssey Silman touches...

Film Noir Fatal Women" focuses on a single aspect of film noir-America's only film movement. Its 400 illustrations reveal the graphic and sensory core of the femme fatale in noir's classic period. As both visual icon and dramatic persona, the Fatal Woman underlies countless doomed narratives of film noir. From torch singers to gun molls, secretaries to sociopaths, black widows to B-girls, both blondes and brunettes, abused and empowered, the e...

With today's proliferation of nine-figure film budgets, filmmaking may seem more out of reach than ever for the average person. In fact, making a movie for next to nothing has never been easier. In Movies Without Baggage, longtime filmmakers Alain Silver, Obren Bokich, and sundry others recount their experiences in the micro-budget arena and detail how 21st-century technology makes it possible to produce high-quality, full-length features for ...

Following in the spirit and style of Scored to Death (2016), his popular first book of interviews with horror music greats, J. Blake Fichera's Scored to Death 2 collects 16 brand-new, info-packed, terrifyingly entertaining interviews with renowned composers who have provided the music for some of horror's most revered films, film franchises, and TV shows, including Get Out, Us, Martin, Re-Animator, The Walking Dead, Puppet Master, Saw, Creepsh...

A famed writer, speaker, player and international master has created the one and only endgame book chess enthusiasts need as they move up the ladder from beginner to tournament player to possession of the coveted master title.

Color & Light is an essential practical guide to how color works in light. Written from the perspective of a theatrical lighting designer, it discusses how to see color, how to construct effective lighting palettes, and how to make use of both color filters and color-mixing LED fixtures to create compositions that work well with scenery and costumes to tell compelling stories. We are presently at the leading edge of a revolution in theatrical ...

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The Twilight Zone has captivated and haunted the imaginations of countless millions of viewers from its 1959 debut through its 156 subsequent episodes and many years of steady rebroadcast. The Twilight Zone Companion, an American Book Award nominee, is the complete show-by-show guide to one of television's all-time greatest series. It covers the celebrated show's inception through to its subsequent offshoots and remakes, and is fascinating ...

Slavko Vorkapich was an artist, special effects artist, film theoretician, director, and montage specialist who is most noted for his montage work on many classic films, including Viva Villa, David Copperfield, San Francisco, The Good Earth, and Mr Smith. This engaging, well-written meditation on the essential expressive nature of movies is a profound yet practical guide to such basic filmmaking techniques as camera angle, image framing, camer...

The screenwriters in this collection offer personal essays -- some intimate, some philosophical -- about why they do what they do, what inspires them, and how they cope with the strange world of motion pictures. Each essay is visually brought to life by an accompanying photographic portrait of its writer. Why We Write offers a substantial, honest and thought-provoking view of screenwriting's creative process. Screenwriters include: Scott Alexa...

African-American Screenwriters Now paints a vivid picture of the opportunities and obstacles that face today's black filmmakers. These writers discuss their influences, their goals, the writing process, alongside their comments on racial barriers and the portrayal of blacks in film. Interviewed are Robert Townsend, Charles Burnett, Lawrence Andries, Rusty Cundieff, Eric Daniel, Michael Dinwiddie, Carl Franklin, Julie Dash, Dwayne Johnson-Cochr...

Screenwriters discuss their craft, the writer's role in the finished film, and collaborations with legendary directors and producers. Includes: Nunnally Johnson, I.A.L. Diamond, Buck Henry, Fay Kanin, Ring Lardner, Jr., Walter Brown Newman, Edward Anhalt, Stirling Silliphant, Lewis John Carlino, David Giler, William Bowers, Jonathan Axelrod.

The first thorough guide to the subject. A unique and vital work for filmmakers." --Michael Deeley, Oscar-winning producer of The Deer Hunter and Blade Runner "Paul Lazarus's book is not only an essential tool for aspiring technicians, writers, directors, and producers, it is also informative and entertaining reading for anyone who loves the movies." --Richard Donner, producer and director, The Omen, Lethal Weapon, Conspiracy Theory This conci...