Digital Film-making Revised Edition

In this indispensable guide to digital film-making, leading film-maker Mike Figgis offers the reader a step-by-step tutorial in how to use digital technology so as to get the best from it.

Mike Figgis, with experience from films such as

Miss Julie and

Leaving Las Vegas – for which he received two Oscar nominations – is an authoritative and insightful guide through the details of film-making. He outlines the equipment and its uses, and provides an authoritative guide to the shooting process – from working with actors to lighting, framing, and camera movement. He further dispenses wisdom on the editing process and the use of sound and music, all the while establishing a sound aesthetic basis for the digital format.

This handbook is essential whether your goal is to make no-budget movies, or simply to put your video camera to more use than just holidays and weddings.