Mistakes are easy to make, but often difficult to undo. The greater the knowledge and experience a filmmaker has, the fewer mistakes are made by them. This introductory-level guide to filmmaking teaches effective preproduction, production and postproduction with a focus on many of the common mistakes made and how to avoid them.Filled with practical advice and information on the process of successfully making a film, Patrick Winters guides you through the whole process from preprodu...

Don’t let your indie film be sabotaged by bad sound! One of the weakest technical aspects of a low or no budget short or feature film is usually the sound, and in Sound Design for Low and No Budget Films, author Patrick Winters explains what filmmakers need to do to fix that. Learn how to improve the sound quality of your low budget film with specific tools and practices for achieving a better sound track, including detailed, step-by-step explanations of how to edit your productio...

He's returned, but not to save... Deadman's Tome He's Risen is an irreverent collection of blasphemous horror dedicated to the king of kings! This sinister issue frames the Resurrection in a way that most horror readers would enjoy, especially zombie fans. From Jesus returning to feast on the living to Jesus kicking undead ass, He's Risen features unadulterated content that entertains and disturbs. Enjoy. Check out a preview of Kelly Evans' Mortecarni

The Frontier: the line between civilisation and the unknown where pioneers rely on a strong will and a dead eye not big city laws.A land where the sweat you shed makes a place yours, whatever lines the government draws on a map; where everyone knows putting on a badge doesn't make a sheriff better than everyone else; where the divide between legend and reality isn't always where it seems.From aging settlers who miss the days when the town only had one stree...

Michael Winter's The Big Why takes the tradition of the historical novel and twists it into the cool, sinuous, entertaining shape we've all been waiting for. His characters are real and from the past, but the lives they live feel contemporary and emotionally modern.Winter's version of the American artist Rockwell Kent is an over aged, erotically fleckless Huck Finn ready to leave the superficial art world of New York and light out for the territory. Only he heads the wrong...

This Handbook is the first major volume to examine the conservation of Asia’s culture and nature in relation to the wider social, political and economic forces shaping the region today.Throughout Asia rapid economic and social change means the region’s heritage is at once under threat and undergoing a revival as never before. As societies look forward, competing forces ensure they re-visit the past and the inherited, with the conservation of nature and culture now driven by the bro...

This introduction to social work with children and young people who are looked after (in care or accommodated) by statutory or voluntary agencies is the only textbook on the subject which addresses this area of work across all four nations of the UK.Providing a clear theoretical and ethical basis, it introduces and develops a set of core themes, reflective of contemporary developments including:• the influence of, and tensions between, dominant discourses that shape the soci...

You know that feeling—when you know it’s a bad idea, but you do it anyway?Like falling for your billionaire dad’s best friend…who also happens to be your new boss.Fresh out of grad school, directionless and a little lost, I take a job interview at my estranged father’s request. I never expected the man sitting behind the desk to be the same dominant stranger I shamelessly flirted with days ago—the one who crumpled up my number and walked away....

I walked away from my billion-dollar inheritance. But I guess I didn’t walk far enough… because yesterday my inheritance came back to me. In order to claim it, I need to find a fake fiancée to satisfy my family’s demands. That’s where my tyrannical, uptight boss Nancy comes in—a royal pain in the seat of the secondhand jeans I’ve worn since the day I became her bartender. The truth is I’ve been lying for seven years. I figure I can lie for one more weekend. But what I can’t lie about is ho...

Stealing Ronan wasn’t the plan. I’d never imagined I’d steal a boyfriend from my sister, but when I saw him strutting to my couch with his perfect body, gorgeous face, and that mouth—God, that mouth, it was like he was plucked from my wettest dreams and brought into my life just for me.Lusting after a straight guy who’s dating my sister is a problem in itself, but the bigger problem comes when he’s invited on a family trip with us for Christmas. Just as I thought I was doing a pret...

Understanding the formation of governments has always been central to political science. Traditionally this topic has been considered from a rational choice theory perspective and the empirical testing of these theories; however neither approach alone is able to explain a large proportion of actual coalition formations.This comparative volume brings together a rational choice theory perspective and the empirical testing of these theories to study government formation. It provides i...

An excellent aide for the putting impaired, this guide teaches golfers to use their most important asset in the game within the game—their minds.