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FilmCraft: Editing employs stunning stills and screenshots to show how leading editors created a scene with the filmmaker and explores the complex editor/director relationship. Get perspectives from editors who worked on There Will Be Blood; Good Will Hunting, Inception. and countless other groundbreaking movies.
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The Filmmaker's Eye
By Gustavo Mercado
DSLR Cinema
By Kurt Lancaster
The VES Handbook of Visual Effects
By Jeffrey A. Okun and Susan Zwerman
Screenwriting Tips, You Hack
By Xander Bennett