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A cinematographer, Murphy had a hard time breaking into Hollywood. "My wife don't drive a car, and you're not going to operate a camera," she remembers a union official told her. "You'll get in over my dead body." So how did she become the first female member of the cinematographers guild in 1973? "Well, he died," Murphy said much later. She went on to win Emmy Awards in 1978, 1981, 1985 and 1987, and an Academy Award in 1982. In 1980, she was invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers, and was its only female member for 15 years. (Even today, with her death, there are still only five.) "Brianne Murphy should be remembered for her artful cinematography in such classic television series as Little House on the Prairie, Trapper John, M.D., Highway to Heaven, Father Murphy and In the Heat of the Night," said ASC President Richard Crudo. Murphy died August 20 from brain cancer at home in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. She was 70. From This is True for 24 August 2003 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Richard Williams List Price: $30.00 Amazon Price: $19.80 Editorial Review: The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?Animation is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking today--and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. During his more than forty years in the business, Williams has been one of the true innovators, winning three Academy Awards and serving as the link between Disney's golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation exemplified by Toy Story. Perhaps even more important, though, has been his dedication in passing along his knowledge to a new generation of animators so that they in turn could push the medium in new directions. In this book, based on his sold-out master classes in the United States and across Europe, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that every animator--from beginner to expert, classic animator to computer animation whiz --needs. Urging his readers to "invent but be believable," he illustrates his points with hundreds of drawings, distilling the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that will become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals, students, and fans.  By: Diana Weynand List Price: $39.99 Amazon Price: $26.39 Editorial Review: The only Apple-certified guide to Final Cut Express 4, this book delivers the techniques you need to make movie magic with DV, HDV, or AVCHD footage. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, with hands-on projects to complete as you go. All the files you need are on the included DVD-ROM. You’ll learn how to make effective edits and adjust them precisely; create polished transitions and sophisticated composites; add audio tracks, titles, and speed and motion effects; then color-correct and finish your video for export to DVD or the Web. Whether you’re a student, a devoted amateur who’s serious about digital video, or a professional who needs a comprehensive editing program, you’ll find everything you need to learn Final Cut Express 4 within the pages of this book. DVD-ROM includes lesson and media files for over 20 hours of training.  By: Chris & Trish Meyer List Price: $64.95 Amazon Price: $40.92 Editorial Review: Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you. Creating Motion Graphics 4th Edition has been heavily revised, reuniting the previous two volumes plus adding detailed coverage of new features introduced in After Effects 7 and CS3 Professional to form one massive, essential reference. The enclosed DVD-ROM contains source footage and project files for the numerous exercises which help reinforce each concept. The DVD also includes over 180 pages of additional information, including lengthy Bonus Chapters on Expressions and Effects. * Mastering animation through the use of keyframes, motion paths, and the Graph Editor * Blending imagery using alpha channels, masks, mattes, modes, and stencils * Building groups and hierarchies through parenting and nested comps * Extended coverage of type animation, paint tools and 3D space * Advanced subjects such as keying, motion tracking, expressions, and video issues * Includes over 180 PDF pages of bonus content on the DVD * Extensive coverage of the new CS3 features including the Shape and Puppet tools, Brainstorm, per-character 3D text, color management, and more!  By: Jennifer Van Sijll List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $16.47 Editorial Review: What the industry's most succcessful writers and directors have in common is that they have mastered the cinematic conventions specific to the medium.  By: Stu Maschwitz List Price: $44.99 Amazon Price: $29.69 Editorial Review: Written by Stu Maschwitz, co-founder of the Orphanage (the legendary guerrilla visual effects studio responsible for amazing and award-winning effects in such movies as Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this book is a must-have for all those budding filmmakers and students who want to produce action movies with visual effects but don't have Hollywood budgets. The Orphanage was created by three twenty-something visual effects veterans who wanted to make their own feature films and discovered they could do this by utilizing home computers, off the shelf software, and approaching things artistically. This guide details exactly how to do this: from planning and selecting the necessary cameras, software, and equipment, to creating specific special effects (including gunfire, Kung Fu fighting, car chases, dismemberment, and more) to editing and mixing sound and music. Its mantra is that the best, low-budget action moviemakers must visualize the end product first in order to reverse-engineer the least expensive way to get there. Readers will learn how to integrate visual effects into every aspect of filmmaking--before filming, during filming and with "in camera" shots, and with computers in postproduction. Throughout the book, the author makes specific references to and uses popular action movies (both low and big-budget) as detailed examples--including El Mariachi, La Femme Nikita, Die Hard, and Terminator 2. |
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