Direction & Production

Move over, movies: the freshest storytelling today is on television, where the multi-episodic format is used for rich character development and innovative story arcs. Directors Tell the Story, Second Edition offers rare insight and advice straight from...

For fans of the hit show Fargo and bestselling author Noah Hawley comes the perfect collector's item. This companion to the first three seasons of the award-winning, celebrated TV drama is packed with script selections (including all three pilots),...

Running the Show takes you inside building a show from the ground up and what a showrunner's life looks like in Hollywood. About the AuthorAs a writer and producer, Jeff Melvoin has worked on more than a dozen series, contributing to over 375 hours of...

Supes Ain't Always Heroes offers a fresh look at The Boys, delving into the show's unflinching depiction of celebrity, politics, social media, corporate greed, racism, sexism, and more: Why Homelander is the perfect representative for the sociopathic...

Showrunners is an insider's guide to creating and maintaining a hit show in today's golden age of television. The official companion to the documentary Showrunners, this highly informative book features exclusive interviews with such acclaimed and...

This book investigates how telenovelas may be the key to the future of Brazilian television and how this content can survive in an interconnected media landscape. Recognised telenovela writer and scholar Rosane Svartman considers the particular...

Timing for Animation has been one of the pillars of animation since it was first published in 1981. Now this 40th anniversary edition captures the focus of the original and enhances this new edition with fresh images, techniques, and advice from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127963Author Norman LearFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 394g

Navigating the necessary skills for shooting film or TV is a challenge for any filmmaker. This book demystifies the art and craft of "coverage" - explaining where to put the camera to shoot any kind of scene.Author Mark Rosman takes readers step-by-step...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907445Author Tony LevelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 454g

Pantomime is a much-loved national institution, but how is it created? What tools and processes are used? Working from purely a title, this practical book explains how a script and a design can develop together through the creative processes to...

Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The Simpsons, Late Night with...

In recent years, the television landscape has seen the glorious rise of women to key positions of power within the industry, from writers to producers to directors. Successes like Shonda Rhimes's Holy Trinity of shows as a producer-Grey's Anatomy,...

The Green Screen Handbook, Second Edition is a comprehensive how-to manual that walks you through the many integral techniques required in preproduction, production, and postproduction to use green screen effectively. Step-by-step instruction and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802580075Author Dale TemplarFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 30mm

This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories...

The Days of Live is a fascinating account of the era of live television. This brief period in the long history of entertainment glistened for approximately ten years, from shortly after World War II until the end of the 1950s, when the advent of video...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845832230Author Andrew MorganFormat HardbackImprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing Ltd

The Brazilian television industry is one of the most productive and commercially successful in the world. At the forefront of this industry is TV Globo and its production of standardized telenovelas, which millions of Brazilians and viewers from over 130...

The Days of Live is a fascinating account of the era of live television. This brief period in the long history of entertainment glistened for approximately ten years, from shortly after World War II until the end of the 1950s, when the advent of video...

This sequel provides yet another dozen of today's most acclaimed writers and producers an open, uncensored forum in which they discuss everything from their work ethic to the political, social and economic issues affecting the television industry...

Maps out the dominant debates surrounding period drama through the twin frameworks of prestige and pleasureAbout the AuthorFaye Woods, Associate Professor, University of Reading.Book InformationISBN 9781474462822Author Faye WoodsFormat PaperbackPage...

Over the course of his five-decade career in television, John Stephens produced many hit shows, including My Three Sons, Family Affair, Gunsmoke, How the West Was Won, and Simon & Simon. He also produced a number of failures, including The Smith...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798731310024Author David L SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947471184Author M M Le BlancFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Bizentine PressPublisher Bizentine PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737603412Author Daryn KirschtFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Daryn KirschtPublisher Daryn KirschtWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935271604Author Jeff ThompsonFormat HardbackImprint Ideas Into Books WestviewPublisher Ideas Into Books WestviewWeight(grams) 572g

Richard Bare is primarily known as the sole director of the television series Green Acres, but his Hollywood career spanned over 40 years, starting with his USC student film, So You Want to Give Up Smoking, which resulted in a long-term contract at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916313712Author Lelia DoolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Data Ocean LimitedPublisher Data Ocean LimitedWeight(grams) 798gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This guided tour of the American situation comedy is given by one of the most prolific directors of the genre. Brooklyn native Joel Zwick began his career in the late 1960s at La Mama, a New York experimental theater club, before moving to Hollywood to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460967133Author Melissa CaudleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948873079Author Donald Ian BullFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Intersection Productions, Inc.Publisher Intersection Productions, Inc.Weight(grams)...

This work includes discussions of the history of sound effects, the different types of sound effects, creating sound effects from scratch, recording sounds in the studio and field, the advantages of live sounds over tape, knowing why and when to use...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492332596Author Richie LitchfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523241330Author Institute for Career ResearchFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932016Author Troy LanierFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470169152Author Mike CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781071112854Author Chris ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 181g

Becoming a TV director is nothing like other professions. There is no road map. Traditionally, the only way to break in was through access to a powerful mentor to show you the way … until now! This book of interviews with working TV directors provides 16...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941188579Author Michael WieseFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 660g