Fast-Track Yourself Into 1st-Year Level Film Education

Embrace a solid foundation with a future-proof, classic combo of theory, technique, history, critical thinking, and creative skills that transcend technological changes, whether camera, mobile devices, or AI.
This interactive, self-guided textbook is a director’s toolbox made for Apple Books.

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While tools and technology rapidly change, a solid grasp of visual grammar is the backbone of both film education and a lifelong career.

Movie watchers understand the language of Cinema. But movie makers “speak” it.

“This ain’t old school.
It’s just school.“

This is for those ready to do the work. A full curriculum designed for people who:

Start by exploring how pioneers developed optical illusions to craft a modern visual language by tapping the human eye-brain connection to evoke near-predictable emotional responses. These phenomena still play on modern film audiences.
Then dive into the core elements of filmmaking: 

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What’s an Apple Book?

It’s an interactive multimedia e-textbook you purchase and download from Apple Book Store.
It lives in the Apple Books app on your iPad, Mac, and iPhone, and synchronizes across devices.
The work features interactive diagrams, audio, video, image galleries, pop-ups, quizzes, and web content.
You can customize your copy with highlights, notes, flashcards, and more.

Key Features

Complex rules, principles, and techniques are easy to grasp and apply through study, practice, review, and discussion. Each essential film concept is reinforced in several ways: 

We begin with our human disposition to optical illusions and some early filmmakers who developed tools and techniques that influence our emotions.

These discoveries evolved into the visual language of film that filmmakers use today, which the student begins to apply in the very first chapter, to feel the impact of a well-planned cut.

Subsequent chapters teach this language progressively and more deeply, building skills through illustration and frequent practice from a director’s point of view.

By the end, you’ll have cultivated a lifelong creative toolbox—your own knowledge, instincts, and talent from which to draw as you enter the profession with a significant understanding of the craft. 

Whether you’re an aspiring filmmaker exploring your passion or an educator looking to enhance your teaching curriculum, Cyber Film School Filmmaking Textbook’s adaptable structure and comprehensive content make it an invaluable resource for individual learners at home and teachers in the classroom.

Revised and Updated 2023 – Version 2.0

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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.

Highlight passages, record and store notes to review, share, and create flip cards as you develop skills and reinforce your knowledge–just one example of how this platform facilitates independent learning.

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 Make Cinema Your Language!

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