Creating Special Effects for TV and Video

3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-240-51474-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 134 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 268 g

Creating Special Effects for TV and Video is a concise and practical introduction to the techniques used in television production. Now completely updated, this third edition covers a wide range of special effects in a simple and practical form, with clear illustrations and photographs that support the text.
Creating Special Effects for TV and Video is a concise and practical introduction to the techniques used in television production. Now completely updated, this third edition covers a wide range of special effects in a simple and practical form, with clear illustrations and photographs that support the text.Bernard Wilkie now a freelance consultant, director and writer, spent 25 years creating special effects for BBC TV where he became manager of one of the largest and most specialised visual FX units in the world.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilkie, Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Besondere Themen und Arten der Fotografie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS: Introduction;Special Effects Design; The Importance of Sound; the Camcorder; Film cameras; Animation Stand Camerawork; Stop-frame animation; the Computer; Computerised effects -1; Computerised effects -2; Fifty-Fifty mirrors; Mirrored effects; Periscopes; Polystyrene fabrication and modelling; Plastic forming machines; Plaster of Paris; Plaster turning; Mould making; Flexible moulds; Latex casting; Glass fibre layups and casting; resin; Matte and Glass shots; Models and miniatures; Action miniatures;

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard Wilkie