Reddit reviews The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video

Note: Obviously this list is incomplete, if anyone has suggestions please add to this. Also this list is not specifically for kevleemur, but for anyone looking to learn about movie stuffs

Online material is nice, but there are many great and more reliable resources that come in these old fashioned book things.

General

Shot by Shot

MasterShots

The Visual Story


Directing

On Screen Directing
(may be hard to find)

On Directing Film by David Manet

Cinematography/ Lighting/ Camera/ On Set Learning

The ASC Manual (some earlier editions come in one volume which is nice)

Creative Control by Michael Hofstein

The Set Lighting Technicians Handbook

Painting With Light (John Alton's book. A little outdated but still a good read).

Reflections

The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video by Tom Schroeppel (very simple, a good start)

The Grip Book

The Camera Assistant's Manual

Cinematography: Theory and Practice



Producing

Creative Producing From A to Z by Myrl A Schreibman

Scheduling and Budgeting Your Film by Paula Landry

Editing

In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch (Sound designer and editor from Apocalypse Now----EXCELLENT)



Screenwriting

Story

Screenplay the Foundations of Screenwriting






ONLINE RESOURCES:


http://www.rondexter.com/

http://cinematography.net/

http://www.rogerdeakins.com/

http://www.arri.com/

http://www.mole.com/

http://www.panavision.com/home

http://www.filmtools.com/

Aside from familiarizing yourself with knowledge and technique the best you can without being involved on set, one of the best things you can do is read up and become as knowledgeable as you can with gear that you will eventually encounter, which is why I listed the last four links. Even if you do plan on going into producing or directing, it is always helpful to understand lighting and camera and why the people working with you need the things they do.


GO LEARN THINGS!

If you are looking for something to get college credit for, I'm not sure. But YouTube has some awesome resources for learning about these things.
A couple of my favorite channels that I subscribe to are Digital Rev TV (has lots of good info about how to shoot certain subject matter and different cameras and lenses) and Karl Taylor's Channel (he's more of my "bare bones guide" for a lot of things, I've learned a lot about photography through his videos). Karl Taylor also has DVDs that supposedly have much more content, but I've never tried them.
Since you are interested more in video production The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video is a great place to start learning the basics and the dos and don'ts of film and video production, don't get it on amazon though, I'm sure you can get it for less somewhere else.

Hope that helps a little! I don't do a lot of video stuff, so I don't have too many recommendations there.

If you can find a copy of a book called Barebones, it's actually pretty good at explaining a lot of complex ideas in a minimal amount of pages and for an incredibly inexpensive price.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0960371818/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1368197587&sr=8-1&pi=SL75

Get your hands on that and you'll learn a lot of the basics quickly an easily.

Cool. If you'd like my 2 cents, a few of my favorite film books from school were:

• The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video (Basic camera guide that I found helpful and checked back on every once in a while)
  
  
• Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: a great book on lighting with tons of information on the properties of light, the choices a gaffer makes, and different equipment.
  
  
• Film Form by Eisenstein: You've probably had to read at least some of this for class. Even if you don't read the whole thing, Eisenstein had some interesting ideas on how film should work.

Right. And you don't need one right now, either.

In fact, before you do anything, read this: http://www.amazon.com/Bare-Bones-Camera-Course-Video/dp/0960371818