Video Production Books

Videotape Your Memoirs: The Perfect Way To Preserve Your Family's History by authors and educators Suzanne Kita and Harriet Kinghorn is a useful and "user friendly" instructional guide and reference to recording the personal histories and autobiographies of family members for the benefit and enjoyment of future generations. Readers will learn how to choose the proper equipment, orgaize their thoughts, enlist the help of others, be at ease during videotaping sessions, utilize photos and other memorabilia toillustrate an autobiographical video, creat a personal monologue, include friends and family, use scene and setting for added interest, archive and preserve the video taped presentations. As one of the newest tools for genealogists and family historians, videotaped memoirs could prove to be invaluable resources for future genealogy efforts -- as well as providing an enduring memorial and testament to the life experiences of ourselves and our loved ones. If you are considered the creation of a video taped autobiography, begin by carefully reading Suzanne Kita and Harriet Kinghorn's Videotape Your Memoirs!

So what exactly is The Villikon Chronicles, you might ask? It's the story of Captain Kort Villikon, a respected soldier and military commander who is framed for the horrendous crime of genocide. His punishment is to be banished to the prison world of Itasca. A world swarming with warmongering clans, pirates, and a vampirical race known as the Porphyrian Hive. Through it all, Villikon learns how to survive in this hostile world and seek a way to escape it so that he may extract vengeance upon those who framed him.

That description barely touches the surface of this story. This is the sort of tale that makes the Ten Commandments look like a child's read. Written and created by Bryan J. Kinnaird, The Villikon Chronicles took a roundabout way to becoming a comic series. Originally, it was written and planned as a movie. At the time, though, they just weren't able to make that happen. Not one to give up his baby project, Bryan enlisted the help Roy Young to turn Villikon into a comic...but not just any old style of book. Instead of creating a comic by drawing everything, Roy took an original approach by enlisting people to model before his camera and using the wonders of Photoshop (and other computer programs too enigmatic for this reporter to recall) created a look that was altogether original and fascinating for the eye to behold.

So what exactly is The Villikon Chronicles, you might ask? It's the story of Captain Kort Villikon, a respected soldier and military commander who is framed for the horrendous crime of genocide. His punishment is to be banished to the prison world of Itasca. A world swarming with warmongering clans, pirates, and a vampirical race known as the Porphyrian Hive. Through it all, Villikon learns how to survive in this hostile world and seek a way to escape it so that he may extract vengeance upon those who framed him.

That description barely touches the surface of this story. Even though the first storyline is over, the chronicles have only begun. In the days to come, The Villikon Chronicles II: Rites of Abolition will be coming out, along with The Crucible of Mystere. In addition, Bryan J. Kinnaird is still working at turning Villikon into a movie or TV series. This is the sort of tale that makes the Ten Commandments look like a child's read.

In a stroke of pure genius, Bryan J. Kinnaird made a bold marketing move and sought out Cheyenne Silver to be the model for one of the leading characters, Mystere. Cheyenne was already beginning to branch out into other endeavors, such as playing a major role in her first feature film "This Girl's Life", along with James Wood. When Cheyenne had received the script for The Villikon Chronicles, she immediately took a liking to it, and signed on for the role.

Even though the first storyline is over, the chronicles have only begun. The Villikon Chronicles II: Rites of Abolition will be coming out, along with The Crucible of Mystere. In addition, Bryan J. Kinnaird is said to still be working at turning Villikon into a movie or TV series.

If you can't find this series in your local comic store, be sure to order your copy online and check out their out their website for tons of character information at www.villikonchronicles.com It's a read worth receiving, and an epic that will last through the ages.

Henry Bacon has proven himself a brilliant researcher and author by writing the finest, and truest account of the master of film Luchino Visconti. Bacon's book is a highly detailed, fact filled documentary of the director's vision as it relates to his spectacular career. The book is the ultimate guide to anyone studying film or researching Visconti. Bacon has properly and intelligently put into context Visconti's aristocratic background in relation to his developing career, he has included every single film, and planned project including those that have been lost, and goes in-depth to discuss Visconti's frame of mind, project by project, and how his entire brillant career developed. Bacon has a clear intellectual knowledge of the true Visconti and has the facts to back up his claims. The work is in itself a masterpiece of film research. It is truly the finest biographical documentary of Visconti to date.

Covering the full range of modern American filmmakers from established auteurs to first-time directors, this is an amazingly well researched and informed book that sets out to paint a picture of US cinema in all its varied forms. Of particular interest is the information on directors normally excluded from mainstream film encyclopedias - indie directors, pop video makers, first-timers, art-house filmmakers etc. - making for a book which gets to the parts other books just can't reach.

Set out as an alphabetical encyclopedia, each entry includes a complete filmography, contextual and biographical information on each filmmaker, and a specially commissioned critical article which discusses themes, styles and issues central to their work. The range of writers, from film journalists to PhD students to lecturers, makes for an unusually varied and lively authorial tone, though the best entries are the ones which move beyond the constraints of straight film criticism into proper articles. The critical article and full filmography make for a really complete account of the development of each director's career.

An indispensable reference tome whether you're a film writer or just your average movie goer, this book really delivers an informed and interesting read. The publishers say there will be subsequent volumes on British, European and World directors. If they're all as well done as this, I'll be buying every one.

Robin Allan's Walt Disney And Europe: European Influences On The Animated Feature Films Of Walt Disney is carefully based on archival research and extensive interviews with those who worked closely with Walt Disney. Concentrating on the classic animated feature films produced under Walt Disney's personal supervision, Walt Disney And Europe examines the European influences on some of the most beloved Disney classics from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" to "The Jungle Book". With its painstaking attention to detail and meticulous research, Walt Disney And Europe will prove to be of immense interest to students of cinematic history in general, and the work of the Disney Studios in particular.

well done photobook, great candid pictures and unique commentary, if you dig Herzog, get it, you wont be dissapointed, and yes it is in English

This book has wonderful photographs including John Wayne on horseback at what is now Sorrel River Ranch Resort in Moab, Utah, a luxury hotel on the Colorado River. John Ford filmed many of his movies right in the Moab area and it is every bit as spectacular today at it was in John Wayne's time. There are incredible views to be had there and you can see photos online...

This book is very necessary to clue you in on some of the extra things you need to break or might miss - you do want to bankrupt that nasty company don't you?
And of course it offers locations of those sometimes hard to find yellow orbs so you know where you're going while you're tracking all over areas you've previously been.
Not to mention the extreme cuteness of Redmond and pal weasel photos.