Reddit reviews Painting With Light

Note: Obviously this list is incomplete, if anyone has suggestions please add to this. Also this list is not specifically for kevleemur, but for anyone looking to learn about movie stuffs

Online material is nice, but there are many great and more reliable resources that come in these old fashioned book things.

General

Shot by Shot

MasterShots

The Visual Story


Directing

On Screen Directing
(may be hard to find)

On Directing Film by David Manet

Cinematography/ Lighting/ Camera/ On Set Learning

The ASC Manual (some earlier editions come in one volume which is nice)

Creative Control by Michael Hofstein

The Set Lighting Technicians Handbook

Painting With Light (John Alton's book. A little outdated but still a good read).

Reflections

The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video by Tom Schroeppel (very simple, a good start)

The Grip Book

The Camera Assistant's Manual

Cinematography: Theory and Practice



Producing

Creative Producing From A to Z by Myrl A Schreibman

Scheduling and Budgeting Your Film by Paula Landry

Editing

In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch (Sound designer and editor from Apocalypse Now----EXCELLENT)



Screenwriting

Story

Screenplay the Foundations of Screenwriting






ONLINE RESOURCES:


http://www.rondexter.com/

http://cinematography.net/

http://www.rogerdeakins.com/

http://www.arri.com/

http://www.mole.com/

http://www.panavision.com/home

http://www.filmtools.com/

Aside from familiarizing yourself with knowledge and technique the best you can without being involved on set, one of the best things you can do is read up and become as knowledgeable as you can with gear that you will eventually encounter, which is why I listed the last four links. Even if you do plan on going into producing or directing, it is always helpful to understand lighting and camera and why the people working with you need the things they do.


GO LEARN THINGS!

Zero, The Story of Japan's Air War in the Pacific-as Seen by the Enemy: I'm trying to write something based on aviation history, for nanowrimo. This book was authored, in part, by one of the all time great aeronautical engineers, Jiro Horikoshi.

The Right Stuff: I loved the movie, as a kid.

Why the West Rules - for Now: A /r/askhistorians recommended read.

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pear Harbor: One of the books that informed Mad Men.

Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles: I'm a musician.

Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead: I'm a musician.

DisneyWar: I find Hollywood fascinating.

Painting With Light: I love film photography.

Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime: The Soviet Union was a fascinating bit of history - so much political drama and socioeconomic engineering but still with de facto Tsars.

[Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict]http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EGJ7L8U/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3P6ROMQS808NO&coliid=I1EIIL7QDPI54R): Another /r/askhistorians recommendation.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past: Another /r/askhistorians recommendation.

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World): Another /r/askhistorians recommendation.