Whether you want to film wildlife as a fascinating hobby, or are hoping for a career as a professional wildlife film-maker, this book and a basic camcorder are all you need to get started! Packed with information and advice acquired over years of teaching wildlife film-making Piers Warren guides you through all aspects of making a wildlife film from choosing a camcorder to editing the final product.

Includes:

Selecting a Camcorder – different formats explained (including High Definition) Other Useful Equipment – tripods. lenses, lights, microphones and more… Subjects for Filming – in the garden, on holiday or on a special trip Documentary Themes – how to choose a topic for your film – with numerous examples Camera Techniques – handling, composition, shooting sequences, panning/tilting/zooming, cutaways, interviews and many other techniques discussed Fieldcraft – how to be neither seen, heard nor smelt by the wildlife Set Building – how to construct and use wildlife sets The End Product – DVDs, web-streaming, television, showreels – the possibilities explained Post Production – planning, editing, working with sound tracks, adding music and narration

About the Author
Author Piers Warren is the Principal of Wildeye Wildlife Film Training, editor of Wildlife Film News, producer of wildlife-film.com, founder of Filmmakers for Conservation and author of Careers in Wildlife Film-making. Through Wildeye, Piers leads wildlife tours and training expeditions around the world.

How can you quickly make money at home and online with your digital 8 video camcorder, your personal computer, some software such as PhotoShop and Windows XP, and perhaps, your digital camera? You can develop training materials for businesses or students.

Prepare reports, a video news clipping service, package information or products. For every service or product sold, somebody can benefit by writing how-to or learning/training materials. Here are more than 25 different stay-at-home businesses that you can operate online with your digital 8 camcorder and your personal computer as a low-capital start-up business.

The creative home-based person’s guide to making money online with a digital 8 video camcorder, digital camera, a Personal Computer, and Video-Editing Software. Make money with your digital video camcorder and Your PC. Create training materials, business reports, services, or entertainment in a home-based business online with your personal computer.

Calling all creative people to write and/or produce digital 8 camcorder videos or still picture scrapbooks and databases with sound, video, text, and graphics in their PCs. The movie-making process in Windows XP starts as you first capture home or instructional videos with your camera. People remember seven items in short-term memory. So anything you create would be better off it it came in a package or database, advertisement, or training segment based on remembering seven items. Submit what you’ve developed on a Tuesday, the most productive day of the week, and present only seven items to remember in a segment.

About the Author
Anne Hart writes a mystery novel or how-to nonfiction book or more each year. She has been writing full-time since 1963, holds a graduate degree, and teaches courses online in writing, public relations, and public speaking part-time, for a university.

If you had your father’s or mother’s autobiography, wouldn’t you consider it to be among your most prized possessions? While you may no longer be able to fill this particular void, you can ensure that your heirs will not suffer the same sort of loss. Everyone of us has a story to tell, yet, for various reasons, writing is so daunting a task that most people never get around to starting their memoirs—let alone finishing them. Well, today, thanks to the modern videotaping technology, this barrier to leaving one’s memoir is gone. By videotaping your memoirs, you will give your loved ones the chance to see you as a real person during the various stages of your life and to learn about the significant events and changes of your life. Everyone’s life’s journey is unique, interesting, and important. Unfortunately, many of us hedge on this. “Oh, my life has been ordinary,” we say. “There’s nothing special about it.” On the contrary, each person’s life is too valuable to go unrecorded or to be forgotten. Your experiences are your own greatest treasure. Leaving your memoirs is a gift that only you can give, one that those close to you will treasure. One that will be cherished and passed down generation to generation. Remember, if you don’t record the stories about the events of your life, no one will, and knowledge of these events will disappear for all time. Videotaping Your Memoirs, The Perfect Way to Preserve Your Family’s History, the first book of its kind, is your guide to recording the times of your life. Let your memories lead the way! Learn how to: • Choose your equipment • Organize your thoughts • Enlist the help of others • Be at ease during your videotaping sessions • Use photos and other memorabilia to illustrate your video • Create a personal monologue • Include friends and family • Use scene and setting to add interest • Archive your tapes

About the Author
Suzanne C. Kita is a writer, editor, teacher, and education consultant. She has taught both in public and private schools and in community colleges. She lives in the Rocky Mountains near Bailey, Colorado, where she facilitates workshops for writers of all ages and writes on environmental issues for children and adults.

Harriet Kinghorn was honored as “Teacher of the Year” in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, and received the Doane College Alumni Educator of the Year award. She has authored and coauthored more than thirty educational books. In 1995, her Every Child a Storyteller: A Handbook of Ideas, written with Mary Helen Pelton, won the Storytelling World Award.

“…gets to the stuff you really want to know…required reading.” (Nothern Echo, August 2006)

“…gets to the stuff you really want to know…required reading.” (Nothern Echo, August 2006)

Product Description
So you have a camcorder and visions of being the next Spielberg. But how do you progress from shooting so-so footage to showing your own finished movie? Digital Video For Dummies, 4th Edition gives you the know-how and the show-how! Find out how to shoot and edit great movies, using iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, or Adobe Premiere Elements to add the finishing touches like special effects and your own soundtrack. With the latest information and lots of illustrations and screen shots, this friendly guide walks you through:

* Getting your computer ready to work with digital video (complete with information about FireWire)
* Choosing a camcorder, including features to look for and features that are useless
* Digitizing old VHS videotapes to preserve memories
* Purchasing other movie making gear, including audio and lighting equipment
* Shooting better video, with tips on lighting, panning, using the zoom, and recording better audio
* Creating your own sound effects such as footsteps, bones breaking, fire, thunder, insects buzzing, and more
* Capturing digital video using iMovie, Windows Movie Marker, or Premiere Elements
* Editing, including understanding timecode, organizing and previewing clips, and assembling clips in Storyboard and Timeline
* Adding transitions, titles, and special effects
* Importing and integrating video from phones and digital cameras
* Using audio rubberbands in iMovie, Premiere Elements, and other editing programs
* Adding narration, importing and working with CD audio, and adding a music soundtrack

Keith Underdahl has extensive professional video production experience developing kiosk and marketing videos for Ages Software. Realizing that you’ll want to polish and premiere your movie, he includes information on:

* More advanced video editing, including animating video clips, improving light and color, compositing video (bluescreen or greenscreen), and more
* 13 categories of video effects, ranging from blur and sharpen to transform
* Working with still photos and graphics
* Sharing your video online using QuickTime (/QT), RealMedia (.RM), or Windows Media Video (.WMV)
* Making tapes or burning DVDs in 9 steps

With a handy cheat sheet of keyboard shortcuts, a chart comparing 10 video editing programs, a glossary, and more, with this guide you’ll soon be saying “Lights, camera, action” and producing your own movie attraction.

Don’t end up like me-time wasted at camera store book racks;
fatigue from endless internet book searches. Eliminate the grief. Buy “The Complete Digital Video Guide” by Bob Brandon.

Chapters include: choosing a camera; using your camera; your camera and light; composition; telling a story; capturing sound and pictures; building your story; shooting a personal profile; editing your video.

A professional videographer’s lifetime of experience distilled into an essential book. Strunk & White for digital video.