Focal Press Book: The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers A Legal Toolkit for Independent Producers by Thomas Crowell
Focal Press Book: The Grip Book: The Studio Grip’s Essential Guide (5th Edition)
Gain the essential skills of a professional grip to become the jack and master of all trades on a movie or television show set. Discover vital insider tips ranging from how to operate cutting-edge rigging and lighting equipment to performing difficult camera mounts on aircraft, boats, cars, and trains.
In The Grip Book, Fifth Edition, seasoned Hollywood grip Michael G. Uva teaches you to install, set up, maintain, and ensure the safety of all equipment on a set, such as C-stands, cameras, and any specialty gear needed for a shoot. Guidelines for on-set etiquette and how to succeed as a technical crew member will jumpstart your career and make you a valuable asset on any film or television crew. This newly enhanced edition marks the 25th anniversary of a Focal Press classic and has been updated to include:
- A 4-color insert covering greenscreen setup
- Technical expertise on maintaining the latest and greatest filmmaking equipment
- Engaging how-to videos on the companion website (www.focalpress.com/9780415842372) which demonstrate techniques described in the book
- A completely new test section with over one hundred questions and answers, allowing you to quiz yourself on the techniques and concepts you’ve just read
- Guidelines on what a grip has to be physically able to perform in their day-to-day duties
- A European-specific appendix that features a table of European grip terms and their American equivalents
Focal Press Book: Uva’s Guide To Cranes, Dollies, and Remote Heads (1st Edition)
Uva's Guide To Cranes, Dollies, and Remote Heads is a comprehensive guide to all the latest equipment-what it is, how to use it and where to find it. This new book is designed to provide the more experienced professional with a streamlined reference to the equipment without the how-to information beginners require. Like the Grip Book 2E, it lists standards and features of all the different types of equipment covered, and with the recent explosion of new equipment introduced into the film industry this reference is invaluable!
As a reference guide, Uva's Guide To Cranes, Dollies and remote heads provides must-have information for a larger group of film professionals. Producers, directors, and DPs, and others responsible for securing equipment for a project will consider this an indispensable tool that will become an industry standard.
Comprehensive guide to all the latest equipment Offers a streamlined reference to the equipment without the how-to information beginners require Accessible to Directors, Producers, Production managers, and DPs, as well as to Grips and other film technicians.
Focal Press Book: Set Lighting Technician’s Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, & Electrical Distribution (Fourth Edition)
Comprehensive, detailed and practical, the fourth edition of the Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution from Focal Press is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential for anyone implementing motion picture lighting, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions.
The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety. It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including LEDs, xenon lights, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. Since its first edition, this handy on-set reference continues to be widely adopted as an instruction manual by union training programs as well as top university film production curriculums.
About the Author: Harry C. Box has worked in television and motion picture production since 1989. Over the years he has performed substantial work as a lighting technician, gaffer, camera operator, director of photography, and as an educator. His recent credits include network and cable television series, such as Heroes (NBC), Brothers and Sisters (ABC), and Everybody Hates Chris (CW). He has worked on major motion pictures, independent feature films, telefilms, documentaries, music videos, commercials, and industrial productions.
New to the Fourth Edition
- Detailed information on LED technology and gear
- Harmonized with union safety and training procedures
- All the latest and greatest DMX gadgets, including remote control systems
- Details on how to use and troubleshoot many new and useful lights
- New additions to the arsenal of electrical distribution equipment that make our sets safer and easier to power
- More rigging tricks and techniques
- The same friendly, easy to read style that made the original version of this book so popular
Contents
- Preface
- Companion Website
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 - Set Basics: Your First Barbecue
- Chapter 2 - Pre-production Planning: Lighting Package, Expendables and Personal Tools
- Chapter 3 - Light Fixtures:The Basic Tungsten Lighting Arsenal
- Chapter 4 - Stands & Rigging
- Chapter 5 - Lighting Objectives & Methods
- Chapter 6 - Manipulating Light: Tools, Techniques, and the Behavior of Light
- Chapter 7 - Electrician's Set Protocol
- Chapter 8 - Light Fixtures: The HMI Arsenal
- Chapter 9 - Fluorescent Lights
- Chapter 10 - LED Lights
- Chapter 11 - Lighting Control: Control Networks, Moving Lights, Advanced Devices, and Computer
- Applications in Lighting
- Chapter 12 - Electricity
- Chapter 13 - Distribution & Dimming Equipment
- Chapter 14 - Working with Electrical Power
- Chapter 15 - Electrical Rigging
- Chapter 16 - Power Sources
- Chapter 17 - Special Circumstances and Practices
- Chapter 18 - Specialty Lighting Equipment
- Appendix A: Photometric Calculations & Tables
- Appendix B: Lamp Tables
- Appendix C: Flicker-Free Frame Rates
- Appendix D: Electrical Tables
- Appendix E: IP & NEMA Equipment Ratings
- Appendix F: Equipment Suppliers & Manufacturers
- Appendix G: Lighting Equipment Order Checklist
- Appendix H: Expendables Checklist
- Appendix I: Gels & Diffusions
- Glossary
- Index
