The Film Handbook offers practical guidance on a range of traditional and independent 'guerrilla' film production methods, from developing script ideas, logistics of planning the shoot, cinematography, then to digital systems of post-production, including sound. Film professionals and graduate students share advice of their creative and practical experiences shooting both on digital and film forms.

Forward Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC Introduction Part 1: Film Language And Aesthetics 1. Renaissance of (Digital) Film 2. Developing Mise-en-Scene 3. Directing the Actor 4. Cinematography: Painting with Motion 5. Sound Underpinning Image 6. Editing: Temporality & Structure Part 2: Film Theory In Practice 7. Reading The Screen 8. Spectatorship and Audience 9. Contemporary Cinema 10. Eisenstein and Bazin: Formalism & Realism, Two Modes of Practice 11. Genre Part 3: Guerrilla Filmmaking: Practice As Subversion 12. Experimentation and the Short Film Format 13. Working with Non-Professional Actors 14. The Avant-garde, Subtext, & Symbolism 15. Documentary as Resistance Part 4: Persistence Of Vision 16. Screenwriting: From Script to Screen John Brice 17. Soundtracks: Using Music in Film Paul Rutter 18. Post Film: Technology and the Digital Film Part 5: Merging and Immerging Media: Developing a Professional Specialism 19. Post-Film: Production, Distribution and Consumption in the Digital Age 20. Mapping a Career Path