What should I read first!!!!!!

[LAFF OR DIE PRODUCTIONS]

Hello everyone I just got some new books and I was wondering which i should read first or someone please like give me an order to read them!!!! just please help the books are listed below!!!

• "Rebel Without a Crew" by: Robert Rodriguez
• "How to shoot a feature film for under 10,000 dolars and not go to jail" by: Bret Stern
• "What they don't teach you at film school" by: Camille Landau & Tiare White
• "Digital Filmmaking 101" by: Dale Newton & John Gaspard

- Zacharias E. Holmes

 

[hoofandmouf]

these are really good books for "technical" type filmmaking knowledge but the single best book I've ever read on filmmaking is.....

"Sight Sound and Motion: Appliead Media Aesthetics" by Herbert Zetti
this book goes into scientific detail as to why we react certain ways to color, sound, light, imagery, etc..... read several times to get the full effect

 

[Karl151k]

Read them in the following order:

1)Rebel Without a Crew (it'll get you excited about making your movie)
2)How to shoot a feature...Jail (It's written in the same kind of mindset as Rebel)
3)Digital Filmmaking 101
4)What they don't teach you at Film School. (Which I didn't find to be too great of a resource, but that's just my opinion.)
5)Rebel Without a Crew... again. (It's just that good)

 

[LAFF OR DIE PRODUCTIONS]

Well thanx everyone for your advice and Karl i justed started reading rebel without a crew and it's amazing i cant stop reading it!!!!

 

[Terry_Lasater]

Here's a good 'first read'. :thumbsup:

 

[oneinfiniteloop]

"In a Blink of the Eye" Walter Murch