Producing & Directing the Short Film & Video 3e

Written by professors at new York University, one of the world's top filmmaking schools, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video is the definitive book on the subject for beginning filmmakers and students. It clearly illustrates all of the steps involved in preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both producer and director, and explains how their separate energies must combine to create a successful short film or video - all the way from script to final product. This guide offers extensive examples from award-winning short narrative and includes insightful quotes from the filmmakers themselves describing the problems they encountered and how they solved them.