Head First Moviemaking

by Kathy Sierra, Jim Kavanagh

"Head First Moviemaking teaches Final Cut in a way that *anyone* can learn from. Even if you've never had any experience beyond pointing a digital video camera at someone's wedding or birthday party, you can learn how make really good, cool, slick movies for both personal and professional use--hip home movies to put on the web, training videos for the MTV generation, marketing and sales movies, etc. that have modern design sensibilities. "Head First Moviemaking is the best, easiest, most user-friendly way to learn Final Cut (which is an incredibly daunting piece of software with a reputation for having a steep learning curve), AND it teaches you what you need to know about actually making a video. Not just how to edit, but how to shoot and *what* to shoot and how to do it in a contemporary style. And since video is both pictures AND sound, (what would a movie be without it's soundtrack?) "Head First Moviemaking also teaches you more about audio than any other book on the market. Our coverage of audio is much more complete, and we teach even non-musicians several different ways to put together killer music tracks for their video, without going to jail for copyright infringement.

600 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2005