AFTRS Library New Titles. On display 28 September to 12 October 2018: New Books

The 18 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques for working in Premiere Pro. Learn to edit video in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018 and get the most out of your workflow. Take a project from beginning to end and learn to organize media, add audio, create transitions, produce titles, and add effects.

Comedy’s pleasure comes in part from its ability to dispel anxiety, as so many of its theoreticians have noted, but it doesn’t simply do that. As both an aesthetic mode and a form of life, its action just as likely produces anxiety, risking transgression, flirting with displeasure, or just confusing things in a way that both intensifies and impedes the pleasure. Comedy has issues.

This groundbreaking and accessible introductory study offers a unique insight into the way illumination has transcended its diffuse functional boundaries and been elevated to a position of narrative and emotional importance, transforming it from an unobstrusive element of film style to an expressive and indispensabile component

The year is 50BC, and all Gaul is occupied. Only one small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. But how much longer can Asterix, Obelix and their friends resist the mighty Roman legions of Julius Caesar? Anything is possible, with a little cunning plus the druid Getafix's magic potions! Their effects can be truly hair-raising...

This reference work presents the full range of the filmmaker's artistry (photography, painting and music) through the optic of his films. It is an original work combining all facets of his creation for the first time, bringing a fresh vision of his cinematographic work. At the heart of the book is the exhibition curator Matthieu Orléan's unpublished interview with Gus Van Sant in Portland in June 2015, discussing the whole scope of his work and inspirations through a network of images organized into themes.

Lapham's Quarterly embodies the belief that history is the root of all education, scientific and literary as well as political and economic. Each issue addresses a topic of current interest and concern--war, religion, money, medicine, nature, crime--by bringing up to the microphone of the present the advice and counsel of the past.

Fully revised, the fourth edition of this comprehensive guide explains how communications technologies are impacting media industries; covers the main approaches to studying media; and contains new chapters on social media, gaming, apps, media regulation, ethics and privacy.

Revised for a new generation of movie lovers, Reel Music tells the story of film music through iconic scenes. The 2nd Edition features more in-depth exploration of international films--from classics like Seven Samurai to more recent works like Run Lola Run--as well as new suggestions for activities and classroom discussion, which show how film music functions moment-by-moment.

The world's most famous travelling reporter learns the secret of the Unicorn. When Tintin stumbles across a model ship at the Old Street Market, he buys it as a gift for his friend Captain Haddock. But this isn't just any old model ship . . . it's the Unicorn. Built by one of Haddock's ancestors it holds a clue to finding the treasure of a notorious pirate.

With his trademark accessible style, Peterson instructs readers on how to achieve successful images in any situation, explaining the fundamentals of exposure and its component parts of light, aperture, and shutter speed. This shows how to get or lose sharpness and contrast in images, how to freeze action, and how to take the best meter readings, while also exploring filters, flash, and light.