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Exposes actors to the ins and outs of the world's (second) oldest profession. This title includes topics: how to be "discovered", what to expect from training programs, the grunt work of starting a career, how to persevere in the face of rejection, the new digital world for actors, and more.

Featuring personal anecdotes and warnings from writers, producers, actors and directors, this handbook offers the tools you need to protect your personal well-being in the film industry. There is advice on keeping your spirits up, weathering unemployment, the dangers child actors face, and more.

In this volume, "Washington Post" photography columnist Frank Van Riper assembles a selection of photographic insights from his columns. Chapters include answers to basic and rarely-addressed technical questions, interviews with photography icons, and reviews of photography books and shows.

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Photographers now have the ideal resource to build a solid foundation for success. The Art and Business of Photography takes an honest approach to the photography profession and is a guide to the artistic and business skills that are the foundation of a career in photography.

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Features tips and strategies for building a web presence that can increase revenue, improve customer relations, and boost brand loyalty. This title explains the traditional theories of branding and explores the ways in which they can be applied to web sites, no matter what the given industry or field.

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Helps you learn how to use images and sound to tell a motion picture story. This guide reveals how editing affects a motion picture's pace, rhythm, structure, and story, and spells out exactly what an editor does. It also reveals the tools, methods, and processes of movie editing so that readers can apply the principles to all their work.

Providing instruction and inspiration to anyone seeking to write authentic and captivating love songs, this book shows how to reflect creatively upon love, express feelings in lyrics, develop an exciting story idea, choose an appropriate music style and craft songs that will woo any audience.

This legal companion is a definitive handbook for anyone looking to understand and benefit from copyrights in the information age, from artists to musicians, software designers to writers, crafts makers to photographers, and entrepreneurs to media moguls.

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Essays, interviews, and course syllabi to help teachers and students in the field of graphic design. This collection discusses a range of design education concerns, from the dichotomies between theory and practice to the importance of mastering the traditional media of the field versus the need to learn and remain flexible in a changing world.

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Features essays, interviews, and visual material by more than 30 teachers and professionals from the field. This book provides a view of the various approaches of art direction from editorial to advertising, as well as analysis about the business and history of the profession. It also includes essays on the nexus between art and commerce.

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This revolutionary business guide explains how the power of entrepreneurship can be harnessed by individuals, organizations, and entire countries to compete and thrive in the 21st...

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This title provides source material on how to find a career relating to your art skills. It covers an artist's professional life cycle, from the first thought about studying art to finding new opportunities when your art career is reaching maturity.

Offering advice on how artists can gain maximum exposure for their work at minimal cost, this guide provides strategies for developing their reputations and increasing their work's value.

This timely companion will help designers and illustrators create and implement sophisticated marketing and self-promotion system for long- term success.

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This thorough guide offers the pricing, estimating, and budgeting advice that is a necessity for every designer and firm pushing to bolster the bottom...

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Ruskin offers criticism, appreciation and instruction for artists. The text covers principles of drawing and painting from the Tuscan masters. A biographical note and introduction by Bill Beckley is included.

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This work relates field theory to altered states of consciousness and compares the close similarities in the world views of mediums, mystics and physicists. It seeks to understand the full human potential in a world where everyday reality merely offers a starting place from which to journey.

Revised from the 1987 text "Unbalanced Accounts", to reflect changes in women, society and the economy, this text provides a look at women's economic issues, from the perspective of psychological health and emotional happiness.

With simple forms and practical advice on how to make money from inventions, this book explains what can be patented, how patent protection works, and how foreign rights are obtained. Included are details on dealing with invention brokers, lawyers, and agents, and other relevant notes.

Details what analysts and producers look for in a commercial script, and what makes a screenplay appealing to buyers. This book makes readers learn how Hollywood operates, how to test a script idea, and includes the 3-act structure, tips for making a screenplay "user friendly" to script analysts and producers, and making the script "look right".

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A comprehensive and practical guide to marketing & self-promotion for photographers. Condensing theory into practical, easy-to-follow instruction, it explains how to build a marketing plan that incorporates self-promotion, advertising, direct marketing, public relations, and the Internet.

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Copyright was once an obscure topic that interested only a few. This title rewards readers with a more concrete understanding of our whole copyright system. It helps creators to preserve their copyrights, and helps users of copyrights do what they want on the right side of the law, and help both to profit from copyrights.

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Shows you how to use trademarks to stay out of trouble and, just as important, how to thrive in the marketplace. This title informs you when you should call a lawyer and how to avoid needing one. It teaches you how to manage your trademark to maximize profits and avoid problems.

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A comprehensive, step-by-step guide that covers information an aspiring small business owner needs to know before getting started. It provides answers to such questions as: Have you thought about your market Do you know how contracts work How about the difference between an employee and an independent contractor And, more.