Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production

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Author: Jan Roberts-Breslin

ISBN-10: 0240809076

ISBN-13: 9780240809076

Category: Photography - Techniques & Equipment

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Making Media takes the media production process and deconstructs it into its most basic components. Students will learn the basic concepts of media production: frame, sound, light, time, motion, sequencing, etc., and be able to apply them to any medium they choose. They will also become well grounded in the digital work environment and the tools required to produce media in the digital age. The companion Web site provides interactive exercises for each chapter, allowing students to explore the process of media production. The text is heavily illustrated and complete with sidebar discussions of pertinent issues.*Prepares students to move with ease into any number of media disciplines - film, video, photography, audio, multimedia *Includes Companion Website with interactive exercises http://booksite.focalpress.com/roberts-breslin/*Highly illustrated throughout "The author does an admirable job of combining all aspects of traditional and new media in each chapter. The accompanying CD-ROM offers visual and audio examples of production design and is itself a good example of nonlinear programming in covering the concepts of storyboarding and releases, visual aesthetics, light quality, brightness and contrast, color mixing, color temperature, sound mixing, camera movements, sequencing of still images, and examples of persistence of movement and the phi phenomenon."—CHOICE

Content; Copyright; The Frame; Light; Sound; Time; Sound and Image; Movement and Depth; The Theory of Linear Structure; The Practice of Linear Structure; Nonlinear Structure; Approaches to Production and Distribution; Glossary