Extreme DV at Used-Car Prices: How to Write, Direct, Shoot, Edit, and Produce a Digital Video Feature for LessThan $3,000
Product Description
For years, award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt has been teaching aspiring writers, directors, and producers how to make “no-budget” films, both in workshops and in his classic guide, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices. Now Schmidt shows how it is easier—and cheaper—than ever to make an innovative, high quality work, thanks to digital video. Filled with the latest information on equipment and software, ideas for experimenting with new … More >>
April 11th, 2010 at 8:09 am
Dont buy this, its just his own personal experiences of making horrible sounding DV film. He gives bad advice, and sugguests not using a script. As said before, look at who is giving you advice before you take it. If you really want this book buy a used copy.
Rating: 1 / 5
April 11th, 2010 at 8:43 am
This book is RIDDLED with typos and factual errors! The very first paragraph in the book refers to something that was ‘sited’ on the cover (they meant ‘cited’). The very popular camera manufacturer Canon was spelled ‘Cannon’! I could go on and on–but that’s the book editor’s job–not mine!
My question is: who edited this book? How could a book with literally hundreds of errors–factual and grammatical–make it through your publication pipeline? How did the weak sentence construction and freshman-English-class mistakes pass by an editor’s cursor?
Rating: 1 / 5
April 11th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Ya ever think – I’d like to make a movie – but then stopped right there ’cause the reality (so you think) is that putting something like that together is just too hard? Pick up Extreme DV, ya goof. It doesn’t have to be that difficult. You could get your cinematic vision in the can without the unpleasantness of ulcers and spousal abandonment. Take a look. And don’t be afraid.
Rating: 5 / 5
April 11th, 2010 at 10:28 am
I was excited about this book but then when I got it and read the first few pages, I was disappointed, big time.
The author is, I think, some liberal arts professor who goes on and on about how to make a movie in less than 19 days. He recommends all sorts of off-the-cuff methods, like not using a script.
OK, dude, people have been making movies like that for decades — they’re called home movies. And guess what — no one but the person who filmed it likes home movies.
He gives lots of outdated advice like how to share your movie on “low cost” file sharing servers that just point back to your home computer and eat up your bandwidth allowance from your ISP in no time flat. He goes on and on about how great Apple is…buy an Apple…buy an Apple…buy the $1,000 Adobe editing suite…wow, this is becoming one expensive used car!
Rating: 1 / 5
April 11th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Don’t judge this book on the typing errors (they are not noticeable anyway), but on the content. Rick has been very successful in independent film, but is a much better teacher than a filmmaker. As a filmmaker myself, this book along with Rick’s original one on feature filmmaking, has inspired and taught me more than any other book on the subject. In the new era of digital and HD filmmaking, this book will breif you on everything you need to know. Great advice lines the pages and motivation to make a movie is the least you’ll take away from reading even just a chapter. Buy this book because even if you breifly thought about making a movie then Rick can get you started.
Rating: 5 / 5