Favorite books about making movies

This post includes information from my previous post on what I’m reading, the Movie Edition.  But this one organizes books by topic.  It also includes only my favorites of the books I’ve read on making movies.  Consider this my recommended reading list on...

The Stapler

I’m taking weekend classes this month on film production.  This weekend was all about scriptwriting.  I had a good time, though have kind of mixed feelings about what I learned. As part of the class, we had a short time to write a script.  I put together the...

A couple photographic experiments

I love getting out the camera and experimenting with stuff.  Today: what’s the effect on depth-of-field and apparent closeness of changing the focal length of the lens?  There’s strong implications on filming here. First off, on apparent closeness....