Research Guides: COMM/MM 4365: Advanced Video Production: Books

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The Art of Nonfiction Movie Making by Jeffrey Friedman; Michael Fox (Foreword by); Rob Epstein; Sharon Wood
Publication date: 2012
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmakers show readers how to handle the process of making their own nonfiction filmo, from conception and financing through shooting, post-production, and distribution.
Documentary Filmmakers Speak by Liz Stubbs
Publication date: 2002
A filmmaker takes readers behind the lens in a series of candid interviews with creators of some of the most influential documentaries of our time. Firsthand knowledge is shared on such topics as how the documentary process differs from making fictional films, storytelling technique, ethical boundaries, funding, film festivals, and much more.
Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production & Social Change by Steven Goodman
Publication date: 2003
This book explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills.

Books

50 Years: The Story of the Diocese of San Angelo
Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: BX1417.S32 F44 2011
Part One tells the stories of 50 people and events that have helped make this diocese what it is. The second part pulls together information on all of the parishes and missions in the diocese.
Early San Angelo by Virginia Noelke
Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: F394.S15 N64 2011
This book presents fascinating photographs that highlight the early history of a frontier town. Soon after the Civil War, the city of San Angelo developed around Fort Concho. The story ends in the late 1920s, when the discovery of oil changed the area dramatically.
A History of Blacks in San Angelo, 1869-1930 by Patricia E. Lamkin
Location: Remote Circ. Coll. (Ask at Circulation Desk for assistance) | Call Number: LD171.A468 Z9 L325 1990
Thesis. Department of History. Angelo State University.
The Concho Country by Gus Clemens; Leona M. Clemens (Illustrator); Walter Noelke (Preface by)
Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: F392.C775 C54 1980
The complete story of American pioneers moving westward in the mid-19th century who encountered an extensive river system in West Texas, which they named the "Concho River". Historical roots reach back to the dawn of human experience on the continent.
Tom Green County: Chronicles of Our Heritage by Tom Green County Historical Society
Location: Second Floor Stacks | Call Number: F392.T6 T62 2003
An excellent two volume set about Tom Green County Texas. Volume one focuses on general history of the county. Volume two covers the families from this great county.
San Angelo, Texas: From a Naughty Town to the Queen of the Conchos by Escal Franklin Duke
Location: West Texas Collection (non-circulating)
Call Number: F394.S18 D85

Suggested Keywords

Documentary Film

Ethics in Filmmaking

Video Production

Music Licensing

Pitch (video or film)

Video proposals

Treatment (Video or film)

Audio techniques for film

Lighting techniques for film

Three point lighting

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