The Best-Selling TV Directing eBooks of All Time

Television is a demanding industry and at the centre of the creative process is the pivotal role of the director. Do you have the right skills to make quality programmes that resonate with audiences? Directing Television offers you a contemporary survival guide. TV directors need a sense of vision, effective management of cast and crew, mentoring and problem solving skills and most importantly the ability to tell a visual story.

See inside the everyday realtivies of TV programme making with this essential guide, written by a Nick Bamford a freelancer director and media trainer with over 25 years of experience of making every type of genre from studio work to outside broadcast. Directing Television offers contemporary skiils in each process from pre-production, development, casting, contributors, locations, programme structure, equipment, call sheets, scripting drama, planning the shoot, the importance of screen grammar and camera basics, through to the final edit. It covers a range of programme styles: factual and reality TV, drama, observational docs, comedy and specialist programmes as well as case studies and `war stories' from real TV experience. Benefit from professional advice and develop your creative directing skills today!

Do you want to know how to direct and produce a reality TV show? What does the field producer do? The director? How do they capture scenes? How do they edit the stories?This handbook teaches you the skills and mindset needed to produce and direct one of the hardest TV genres to do well. There is no fakery; it’s all true documentary shooting, and this shows you how to do it. Donald Ian Bull has produced, directed and edited many reality shows over the past twenty years, including: The Real World, Road Rules, Bug Juice, Camp Jim, Wild Things, The Osbournes, Dr.90210, Beverly Hills Nannies, and Project Runway .

He is also a novelist, under the pen name Ian Bull, and an essayist as Donald Ian Bull. You can get find his work on Amazon, or at IanBullauthor.com. You can also email him at ianbullauthor@gmail.com.

Sharing his own process honed over a decades-long career, Emmy-nominated director Dan Attias brings you into the actual experience of directing series television. Whether it’s the high-stakes pressure of solving a last-minute problem on set, or the joy of pulling off a perfect shot by the skin of your teeth, Attias brings you right into the director’s chair, sharing his knowledge and taking you through the process one challenging episode at a time.

Offering a fundamental focus on story, and eschewing industry language for plain talk, Attias offers in-depth guidance how best to work with actors, how to “speak” through the camera, how to work with a showrunner, and how to be ready for the many ways a director will be challenged, large and small. Directing Great Television is a fascinating window into television’s best shows, compelling to directors and non-directors alike. Attias’s book transcends other filmmaking guides by detailing his journey to a surprising place of self-discovery, one with applications beyond entertainment.