I am a newbie filmmaker. The wealth of information contained in this DVD series is invaluable. I've read a lot of books on the subject of film-making... THE GUERILLA FILMMAKERS HANDBOOK & MOVIE BLUEPRINTS are among the most exhaustive in my library, but even they cannot compare to the nuts and bolts that this series will take you through. Granted, there is not as much in this series on aspects like preproduction or on the topic of "selling your movie" as you can find elsewhere, but for a comprehensive, step-by-step how-to actually FILM YOUR MOVIE, this series of DVD's has no equal.
The discs on the elusive topic of "Lighting" probably have done the most to demystify this topic for me. I have read the classic book on the subject, PAINTING WITH LIGHT and have learned more from these DVD's. Of course, PAINTING WITH LIGHT was written decades ago... but light is still light, after all. What that book doesn't take into consideration, however, is that most of us don't have access to a full fledged production studio with hundreds of thousands of dollars in lighting equipment.
Watch and study these DVD's and you won't be sorry.
