4th Edition
Cinematography: Theory and Practice For Cinematographers and Directors
1.Writing with Motion
2. The Frame
3. Language of the Lens
4. Continuity
5. Shooting Methods
6. Camera
7. Measuring Digital
8. Exposure
9. Linear, Gamma, Log
10. Color
11. Image Control
12. Lighting Sources
13. Lighting
14. Controlling Light
15. Gripology
16. Camera Movement
17. Optics & Focus
18. Set Operations
19. DIT & Workflow
20. Power & Distro
21. Technical Issues
Biography
Blain Brown has been in the film business for over 30 years, working as a director of photography, director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Before becoming a DP/Director, he worked as a lighting technician, gaffer, and grip. He has written, directed, and photographed feature films, commercials, music videos, and corporate videos. He has taught at several film schools in the Los Angeles area, including Columbia College, UCLA, Los Angeles Film School, and AFI. He studied architecture and planning at MIT, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His other books include The Basics of Filmmaking: Screenwriting, Producing, Directing, Cinematography, Audio, & Editing, Motion Picture and Video Lighting (3rd edition), and The Filmmaker’s Guide to Digital Imaging.
'It’s been a painful transition from film to digital for many cinematographers. Brown takes the mystery out of it and presents the technical aspects of this change seamlessly. It is, after all, about art!'
Judy Irola, ASC, Conrad Hall Chair in Cinematography and Color Timing, USC School of Cinematic Arts'As a practicing cinematographer who also teaches, I consider The Filmmaker’s Guide to Digital Imaging essential reading for my students. Blain Brown demystifies the technical processes of digital cinematography from the most basic to the more complex. Given the recent rapid development in this field, working professionals too will find this is a must-have guide. I’m one of them.
Anthony Jannelli, Head of Graduate Cinematography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
‘Just when you think a textbook can’t get any better, Brown comes up with this. Explanatory diagrams and illustrations from films give insight into the thought process and methods of the cinematographer. Brown illuminates both the large gestures and the finer points of the art and craft of cinematography.’
James Henderson, Filmmaker/photographer/educator‘This is a welcome updated version of Cinematography: Theory and Practice, which keeps the traditional approaches to camerawork, and includes additional chapters on technological developments, such as Cameras, Image Control including a section on LUTs, and DIT & Workflow. This is an essential book for teaching camera techniques to students in the changing world of cinematography technologies.’
Jeremy Bubb, Chair of NAHEMI; Filmmaker, and Academic
