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FILMMAKER’S SURVIVAL GUIDE

  • Jammed packed with 48 pages of full-color illustrations
  • Amazing print & paper quality
  • Easy to follow stories with loads of practical tips
  • A must have for any budding filmmaker
  • 13 years and older (this is not a kid comic!)

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WHAT’S INSIDE?

Know your Camcorder

Your best friend or your worst enemy, it all starts right here!

Color Temperature

Understand how your camera sees the world.

The Lens

Stuck on f-stops? In too deep with depth of field? There’s more to it than removing the lens cap, but that’s a good start.

Lighting

The dark arts of lighting revealed.

Exposure

Don’t get left in the dark

Natural Light

Ideas you can bounce around.

Shutter Speed

Fast, slow, everything you need to know, along with practical and creative applications.

White Balance of Terror!

Sometimes things go wrong... very, very, wrong.

Field Exposure Tips

Meet Steve, our master of cinematography!

Camera Support

Tripods, dollies, cranes & more!

Recording Audio

Mic types, boom techniques, audio connectors & more!

W-A-L-L-D-O

Learn every shot possible in under 2 minutes! Well, almost.

F-A-S-T-A-L

This acronym might just save you on your next shoot!

Shoot a Perfect Green Screen

Is your location in another galaxy? We’ll show you how to get there!

Manual Man vs. Autodroid

It’s an all out battle for the soul of yourcamcorder!

My First Film

Make a plan, or plan to fail... everything you need to know before you call “action”!

Buying your First Camcorder

Join Steve on his journey into the unknown waters of camcorder shopping.



Absolutely everything you’ll ever need to know about being a huge filmmaking mogul is in this book! Ok, not quite everything. But we’ve packed, scrunched and squeezed as much information into this as we dared...
be warned, this is no ordinary comic!

Look inside...

Why a Comic?

While teaching intensive short term film programs, I realized my students needed a straight-to-the-point guide to get them familiar with essential filmmaking skills quickly. Text heavy manuals or watching hours of instructional videos 
simply wasn't an option. One day in the cafeteria I spied a comic book that a student had left behind, something clicked, 
and the idea for the Fimmaker’s Survival Guide was born. The comic format was ideal for communicating the complex principles of filmmaking. To this day, I'm surprised at how many texts attempt to teach a visual art form by typing out letters on a page. Some have photos, but often show only the result, and not the methodology. By combining text and illustrations, I was able to clearly explain these fundamentals. One illustration, "Crossing the Axis" was so successful, people who knew nothing about filmmaking were able to understand the concept without even reading the accompanying text. Learning does not have to be dull, stoic or boring. In my world, buying a camcorder is an adventure, a robot and monster have a casual chat while a boom-op moves into position, ninja's demonstrate how to use shutter speed and planning your first film includes battling aliens in outer-space. Filmmaking is about imagination... I hope that the Filmmakers Survival Guide inspires you to let your creativity run wild, and bring all the ideas you have in your head to life. Tell your story, your audience is waiting… Cal Johnson 
Author/Creator

The Filmmaker’s Guide, characters and all related material ©2015, Calvin Johnson - All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any names, characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons (living, dead or somewhere in-between) are coincidental.

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