Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers teaches the skills of script analysis using a formalist approach that examines the written part of a play to gauge how the play should be performed and designed. Treatments of both classic and unconventional plays are combined with clear examples, end-of-chapter questions, and stimulating summaries that will allow actors, directors and design…
Takes the media production process and deconstructs it into its most basic components. Students will learn the basic concepts of media production - frame, sound, light, time, motion, and sequencing - and be able to apply them to any medium they choose, from film and television to fine art and online applications. They will also become well-grounded in the digital work environment and the tools …
Modern coverage of the fundamentals, implementation and applications of digital signal processing techniques from a practical point of view This successful textbook covers most aspects of DSP found in undergraduate electrical, electronic or communications engineering courses. Unlike many other texts, it also covers a number of DSP techniques which are of particular relevance to industry such as…
"An excellent introductory book" (Review of the First Edition in the International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education) " it will serve as a reference book in this area for a long time" (Review of Revised Edition in Zentralblatt für Mathematik (Germany)) Firmly established as the essential introductory Digital Signal Processing (DSP) text, this second edition reflects the growing impor…
A step-by-step guide to digital painting in Photoshop that covers the fundamental aspects in an accessible and comprehensive fashion.
Known as the bible of biomedical engineering, The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition, sets the standard against which all other references of this nature are measured. As such, it has served as a major resource for both skilled professionals and novices to biomedical engineering. Medical Devices and Human Engineering, the second volume of the handbook, presents material from respec…
Learn how to take professional-quality photographs using the same tricks today's top photographers use (surprisingly, it's easier than you'd think)! This is it--the latest version of the #1 best-selling digital photography book ever! It's the award-winning, worldwide smash hit that has been translated into dozens of different languages, because it's the one book that really shows you how to tak…
Consistently rated as the best overall introduction to computer-based image processing, The Image Processing Handbook covers two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) imaging techniques, image printing and storage methods, image processing algorithms, image and feature measurement, quantitative image measurement analysis, and more. Incorporating image processing and analysis examples at a…
Offers introduction to visual arts from several perspectives such as: themes and purposes of art; vocabulary of art; individual art media (painting, drawing, camera arts, sculpture, architecture, and more); and history of art. This book provides illustrations drawn from a range of artistic cultures and time periods.
Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. No other book on comics has taken such a s…
Creating stylish sketches by hand is easy and fun with this inspiring guide. Freehand breaks down basic drawing techniques into bite-sized chunks, and reveals their practical application in dazzling examples by today's coolest artists. Over 200 innovative works of art demonstrate all the fundamentals—line, tone, composition, texture, and more—and are presented alongside friendly text explai…
Provides instructions on drawing landscapes, portraits, still lifes, figures, flowers, buildings, and trees with pencil, charcoal, and ink.
Entertaining and inspirational, Creative Advertising is a 'must have' for all designers, art directors, copywriters, and students of advertising - in fact, for anyone who makes a living from good ideas and for whom creativity is the key qualification. Unravels the creative processes behind some of the most original and effective campaigns of recent years, showcasing over two hundred examples of…
Recent developments in digital technology have transformed the ways in which exposures can be manipulated. Michael Freeman takes the reader through this difficult and fast-moving area with an accesible method, using histograms and visual examples to explore the subtleties of the subject and enable the reader to shoot with confidence.