With this book, you do not need studio expensive equipments to get a professional looking movie. All you need is to look around you for inexpensive tools to help getting your movie a professional look.
Joshua has organized the hacks in this book into eight chapters according to the stages of the video production process.
- The first chapter describes the most important stage to save money and produce a professional looking movie. It is the preparing stage, where you do the planning, storyboarding and organizing your work.
- The lighting related hacks that help create low cost lighting effects are introduced in the second chapter.
- The third chapter is concerning about acquiring your movie, which include hacks about how to shoot you movie and distribute it.
- The fourth chapter introduces hacks to help create high quality output when editing your movie.
- Chapter 5 shows you how to create audio that will grasp the attention of your audience's eye and ears. This leaves a greater effect than presenting the idea to
- Effects help deliver your message and visualizing your storyboard with interesting way that remains in the mind of your audience. So, the hacks in the sixth chapter are concerning about this interesting part of the movie production process.
- After finishing your movie, the hacks in the seventh chapter help distributing you work with variety of ways such as using the internet, cell phones and pocket pc.
- Joshua finishes his book with some general hacks that are useful in presenting your movie in chapter 8.
Many of us are interested in creating low cost movies. I think this book is good for all who want to create personal movies for memories. It is also good for web designers who want to enhance their web site design with new video media under the limited budget of the web projects. Digital Video Hacks is one of the rare books that cover this kind of video projects.
The Digital Video Hacks Review
Written By Joshua Paul
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596009461
