Dont waste valuable time and budget fixing your footage in post! Shoot the effects you want effectively and creatively the first time.

This full-color step-by step guide to visual effects cinematography empowers you to plan out and execute visual effects shots on a budget, without falling into the common pitfall of using high-end computer graphics to fix it in post. Learn how to effectively photograph foreground miniatures, matte paintings, green screen set ups, miniatures, crowd replication, explosions, and so much more to create elements that will composite together flawlessly.

Filming the Fantastic focuses on the art and craft of visual effects using real case scenarios from a visual effects cameraman. These lessons from the front line will give you ideas and insight so you can translate your skills into any situation, no matter what camera or software package you are using and no matter if you are using film or digital technology. Learn how to film your fantastic visual effects with this book!

* Hundreds of full-color set photographs show you exactly how it's done

* Includes step-by-step information on green screen setup

* Real-world examples and exercises throughout

馬剋·薩維奇(Mark Sawicki)是一名攝影師、藝術傢和演員。在電影世界中，他扮演著很多的角色。他在加利福尼亞州大學洛杉磯分校有超過15年的視覺特效教學經驗、製作過有關粘土動畫藝術的視頻節目、以獨立停格動畫藝術傢的身份為MTV製作過多部音樂電視。他在Illusion Arts公司擔任攝影師期間，由於在電視係列劇《星際迷航》中所作的貢獻而獲得過艾美奬、在Celestial Mechanic公司工作期間由於齣色的攝影而獲得過剋裏奧奬。馬剋目前在Custom Film Effects公司擔任數字調色師和特效攝影總監。他最近參與製作的部分影片包括《亡命感應》、《黑色大麗花》、《40歲的老處男》、《暖暖內含光》等。