In this indispensable guide to digital film-making, leading film-maker Mike Figgis offers the reader a step-by-step tutorial in how to use digital technology so as to get the best from it.

Mike Figgis, with experience from films such as Miss Julie and Leaving Las Vegas - for which he received two Oscar nominations - is an authoritative and insightful guide through the details of film-making. He outlines the equipment and its uses, and provides an authoritative guide to the shooting process - from working with actors to lighting, framing, and camera movement. He further dispenses wisdom on ... Read morethe editing process and the use of sound and music, all the while establishing a sound aesthetic basis for the digital format.

This handbook is essential whether your goal is to make no-budget movies, or simply to put your video camera to more use than just holidays and weddings.