Single-Camera Video Production

By Robert B. Musburger

Book Overview

Single-Camera Video Production begins with a discussion of the overall production process, including the importance of goals, audience analysis, and technology. The first section gives you a solid foundation with lessons on video and audio signals and equipment (including cameras, tripods, audio tools, lighting options, and more). You're then guided through the production process from preproduction planning to setting up, rehearsing, shooting, striking, and more. More advanced lessons and techniques on lighting, audio, editing, and aesthetics follow, giving you a complete overview of the video production process, even including distribution.

New to this edition are expanded sections on audio, field-tested production workflows, recording formats, production techniques to consider for distribution, and much more. Also new to this edition is a companion website with video examples of the concepts discussed in the book, as well as rolling updates from the author on technological advances.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415822580
• ISBN13: 9780415822589
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Very useful

Musberger is a great book if you're serious about the craft of shooting. The book is written by a pro for pros and those who would like to be. The style is spare, precise, and clear. There is little flair in the book, but if you want to get better at shooting the information is here and well-explained. While the title is "single-camera", most of the information applies in almost any video shooting situation.

An excellent resource for student filmmakers

Now in a fully updated and expanded third edition, Single-Camera Video Production by Robert B. Musburger (Associate Professor, School of Communication, University of Houston), is a straightforward and highly recommended guide based upon the author's many years of practical field experience to planning, shooting, and editing video productions shot on location with essentially one camera at the filmmaker's disposal. An excellent resource for student filmmakers, Single-Camera Video Production offers a wealth of technical detail on audio signals, the scanning system, digital signal standards, camera controls, microphone types, and more, including sound advice on the social side of shooting film such as directing talent.