How to Talk Camera; helping directors communicate with their DP

How to Talk Camera is a self-paced course for directors who want to hold their own with a director of photography. Sixteen steps teach one habit across the whole image: feeling, story job, camera choice, and what it costs. Lenses and field of view, depth of field, the frame, movement, coverage, light, exposure, the camera package, prep, the set and the grade. Each step has a short read built on published sources, a Don’t skip box, a worked example from an invented film with its DP and crew, real films credited to their directors and cinematographers, and questions about your own movie. Calculators work out field of view, depth of field, shutter, ND and setup time as you type. Included: the workbook, a file that opens in your web browser and saves as you type, plus a printable worksheet for every step, a shot sizes and angles card, a field-of-view card, a movement and support card, lighting plan sheets, a feeling-to-camera table and a camera glossary of more than 200 terms. The workbook compiles your answers into a camera bible to hand your DP. Self-paced, at your own speed. There are no videos, no live sessions and nobody reading your pages. When the bible is done and the shot list has to fit a schedule, that’s the work Goldsmith Production Services does.