1st Edition

Single-Camera Video From Pre- to Postproduction

By Stephen Price, Jr Copyright 2025
340 Pages 149 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 149 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 149 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book contains everything a student needs to know about planning, shooting, and editing a single‑camera video project. Steve Price takes students through the entire single‑camera video production process, from pre- to post-, showing students how to expertly plan, light, capture audio, shoot, edit, and color-correct their work successfully and effectively. In addition, he teaches students... Read more

I.          Preproduction (Chapters 1-3)

1.         Scripts and Storyboards

2.         Locations

3.         Scheduling

II.         Production (Chapters 4-6)

4.         Shooting

5.         Lighting

6.         Sound

III.        Postproduction (Chapters 7-9)

7.         Editing

8.         Audio Post

9.         Coloring

IV.        Producing Fiction (Chapters 10-12)

10.       Narrative Films and Series

11.       Commercials

12.       Music Videos

V.         Producing Non-fiction (Chapters 13-15)

13.       Documentary Films

14.       News Packages

15.       Corporate and Freelance Production

Biography

Stephen Price, Jr. is a professor at the University of Central Missouri and has worked in the media industry for almost 30 years. He started out in sports radio, but has since produced TV news, commercials, music videos, corporate videos, and documentary films. He was the president of the Missouri Broadcast Educators Association for 6 years, and has been the Chair of the Production Aesthetics and Criticism Division of the national BEA organization. He’s been teaching for over 20 years across four different universities, with classes that cover every type of video production, including scriptwriting, cinematography, video editing, documentary film production, and corporate and freelance production.