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madhead's review
1.0
This book is a typical low-quality "business book" or "coaching book", or "motivational", or call it whatever. Readers should realize that the only purpose of books like this is to earn money for authors, not to teach the readers or give them aesthetic pleasure.
This one, as I've said, is not an exclusion. It tells you nothing. It does not tell you a story, it does not learn you, it does not even motivate you. Unless those ten bucks you spend on it is a motivator for you. Seriously: if you want to know how to make a great movie you should read about color theory, about composition, about sound arrangement and so on. And if you want to shoot a not-so-great movie, then you don't need this book as well! Go and spend that money on a cheap clapperboard. And spend the time on reading the manual for your camera.
This book looks like a compilation of short blog-posts from the Internet. Not surprising: the publisher is a movie reviews magazine and the author is one of their men. They don't have other books and I hope this one will be the last.
The only two pros for this book that come to my mind are cool stylish illustrations and the fact that this book is so short that it takes literally an hour or two to read it. Reader may also use it as a checklist of movies to watch if she has a lot of spare time.
This one, as I've said, is not an exclusion. It tells you nothing. It does not tell you a story, it does not learn you, it does not even motivate you. Unless those ten bucks you spend on it is a motivator for you. Seriously: if you want to know how to make a great movie you should read about color theory, about composition, about sound arrangement and so on. And if you want to shoot a not-so-great movie, then you don't need this book as well! Go and spend that money on a cheap clapperboard. And spend the time on reading the manual for your camera.
This book looks like a compilation of short blog-posts from the Internet. Not surprising: the publisher is a movie reviews magazine and the author is one of their men. They don't have other books and I hope this one will be the last.
The only two pros for this book that come to my mind are cool stylish illustrations and the fact that this book is so short that it takes literally an hour or two to read it. Reader may also use it as a checklist of movies to watch if she has a lot of spare time.
lace_daisies_and_mary_oliver's review
adventurous
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inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.0
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