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Title: Some good info, but...
Review: I just purchased this book as a primer for a high school video production class that I will be teaching this fall. It has some great, basic information on lighting, camera angles, etc., but there is far too much useless information in this text. Do we REALLY need to see screen shots of the .mp3's the author has on his hard drive? Earlier in the book he writes a paragraph about the fibonacci sequence, after which he writes, "Nothing in the preceding paragraph was important, but it was fun." Wow.Those things, plus the advice on how to buy a computer, what to do about spam (????), and constant name-dropping make this book overly long and tiresome to read. It would've been much better to leave this stuff out and charge $15.
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