Fast-Track Yourself Into 1st-Year Level Film Education
Learn Filmmaking With A Full Film Course On Apple Books
Make this interactive, structured film course a key part of your self-learning experience. Based on leading 1st-year film programs, learn filmmaking hands-on with your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Make Cinema Your Language
Film is a language we all understand—but not everyone speaks it. Directors do.
This interactive, hands-on film course blends theory, technique, and critical thinking as you learn filmmaking skills that stay relevant despite changing technologies.
Prepare for advanced studies with the basics of first-year film education, or enter the profession with a deeper understanding of the craft.
Say goodbye to dull & dry textbooks!
Learn filmmaking hands-on with editing and filming exercises, self-quizzes, and multimedia content that challenges and inspires you in an immersive and enjoyable educational journey.
★★★★★
“Outstanding publication! A full film education in one well-designed ebook. Great integration of video and graphics to illustrate key points, a dynamic and easy-to-use interface. Highly recommend.” Julian Grant, filmmaker & Associate Professor, Columbia College, Chicago
It’s an interactive e-textbook that lives in the Apple Books app on your iPad, Mac, and iPhone. It features interactive diagrams, audio, video, image galleries, pop-ups, quizzes, and web content. You can customize your copy with highlights, notes, and flashcards.
★★★★★
“I’m loving this Apple Book! It’s clear, not overwhelming, and set up in chunks to differentiate it for varied skilled readers – interactive and definitely user friendly.” Evdoxia Darios, Assistant Principal, New York, Board of Education
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“I recommend Cyber Film School to my students as a resource for both film theory and film practice. Beautifully designed and easy to navigate – an excellent and timeless resource.”
Mark Terry, Ph.D., Contract Faculty York University, Toronto
Learn Filmmaking At Your Own Pace!
Get inspired by an enjoyable and effective educational journey on your own time through analysis, hands-on shooting, writing, editing exercises and quizzes. This textbook remains your personal and permanent reference book.
Personalize Your Workbook!
Highlight passages, record and store notes to review, share, and create study cards as you develop skills and reinforce the knowledge that sets you apart in the competitive world of filmmaking.
Improve Your Web Searches!
Structured Learning eliminates floundering and guesswork. Discern between valuable resources and superficial shortcuts with profound understanding and insight as your roadmap. Achieve your goals sooner!
First-Year Film School Education in Theory and Practice
You can Learn, Shoot, and Edit on the same device
Learn, Shoot, & Edit on your iPad or iPhone, or Learn & Edit on your Mac and shoot with your phone or camera. Tutorials are included.
Start editing Continuity and Montage exercises in the very first chapter!
This guided program simplifies and reinforces essential concepts& complex rules, and illustrates techniques through:
Your copy of the book lives in the Apple Books app on your devices and synchronizes on your iPad, Phone, and Mac as you use it. You get updates for life through Apple, just like an app.
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★★★★★ “A structured film course equivalent to first-year curriculum for less than the price of a basic textbook.”
~ Lance Carlson, Cinematographer/Instructor
George Brown College, Toronto
★★★★★“… A 21st-century version of the bible of film schools, ‘The Five Cs of Cinematography.’ Perfectly analyzed and explained. “
~Charles Braive, Assistant Director/Production Manager
★★★★★ “I based my film course on Cyber Film School. The sections and chapters break up strategies and topics clearly – great for planning class and film exercises.”
~ Adam Palmer, Chehalis Community School, Aggasiz, BC
★★★★★ “Multi-touch features are very effective. Our students represent a wide array of learning abilities. We successfully went through Cyber Film School as our main source of theory content in my video class.”
~ Patti Jenkins, Parry Sound High School, Parry Sound, ON
What’s Inside
- First-year film school education begins with our human disposition to optical illusions
- Early filmmakers made tools and techniques to trick our eyes and brain into seeing movement.
- These ‘tricks’ evolved into the structured visual film ‘language’ filmmakers use today.
- Subsequent chapters illustrate and teach film ‘language’ that is reinforced through exercises and assignments.
- Students become equipped with ‘evergreen’ skills, ready for advanced studies or to enter the profession with a solid understanding of the craft.
Our Filmmaking Chapters
The Magic of Cinema • Shot Vocabulary • Composition • Scene Coverage • Screen Continuity • Camera Movement • Sound • Lighting • Lens • The Five Stages of Production • Screenwriting Primer
Customize Your Learning or Teaching Experience
An entire class could learn filmmaking from the same edition while each annotates their copy. Notes can turn into flip cards for self-study or quizzes – just one example of how this platform facilitates independent learning.
How to Navigate the Book
Revised and Updated in 2023 – Version 2.0
357 Pages
Over 200 Videos
Over 700 Images & Illustrations
ISBN 9780968878521
by Stavros C. Stavrides & Maurizio Belli
Apple ID is required for purchasing or gifting Cyber Film School.
Apple Books will indicate your country’s purchase price.
Includes lifetime free updates
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
You can view this book with Apple Books on a device with iOS 12
or later or macOS 10.14 or later. You can also use an iOS device
with iBooks 3 or later and iOS 5.1 or later, or a Mac with iBooks 1.0
or later and OS X 10.9 or later.
How To Navigate This Book4:28 minutes