Captivate your audience and enhance your storytelling with this tutorial based 4-color cookbook, featuring dozens of solutions to your titling needs.... Each chapter includes case studies and interviews with the pros, lending cutting insight and lessons learned that will have you creating inspired title sequences in no time. The book features genre-based tutorial sections, with step by step instructions for creating effective horror, comedy, drama, and suspense titling sequences. Tutorials for creating some of the most popular title sequences in blockbuster movies are included (Se7en, The Sopranos, 24, The Matrix). Other tutorials teach you how to effectively use sound and VFX in your titles, and also included is instruction on editing your title sequence. These techniques, as well as chapters on the essentials of typography allow you to apply these lessons to your title sequence regardless of whether it's for TV, the web, or digital signage. Also included is a DVD with sample clips, as well as project files that allow you to refine the techniques you learned in the book. As an added bonus we've included 3 titling chapters from other Focal books, with specific instructions on titling within certain software applications. Cover images provided by MK12, from The Alphabet Conspiracy. Learn more at www.MK12.com    

Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students. "Creative composition"-composing in your own style, rather... than in the style of a composer of the past-is embraced by music educators not only for composition students, but for beginning performers and music educators, and is often offered to all music students and non-music majors who wish to enhance their musical creativity. With 25 years of experience teaching fledgling composers, the author tackles the key ingredients that make for successful composition, including: stimulus to the musical imagination; discussion of a variety of current musical languages; analysis of many examples from contemporary scores; technical exercises; suggestions as to how to start a composition; structures; and examinations of works from particular genres. Wilkins covers several musical languages, from folk and popular to serialism; analyses various rhythmic forms; suggests approaches for composing for a variety of instruments, from traditional to electronic ones, as well as for the human voice; addresses the nuts and bolts of score preparation; and offers career advice. For all composition students-and for music students in general-Creative Music Composition offers a clear and concise introduction that will enable them to reach their personal goals.

Most musicians focus on learning technique (learning how to play an instrument), rather than on developing an individual, unique voice. Creative Music... Making focuses on the creative development of musicians from all levels of experience and in all styles of music. Based on the author's experience leading workshops for performers around the world, the easy-to-follow exercises in this text will enable any musician--from beginner to professional--to improve creativity and self-expression. Creative Music Making will open the ears of all musicians, vocalists or instrumentalists, in classical, popular, or jazz styles, to a world of new possibilities.

Book and 4 CD's. A long-awaited, contemporary revision and expansion of the classic 1977 text by Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins that laid the... foundations for the widening development of their pioneering improvisational practice of music therapy. It is a large format book of nineteen chapters and over 500 pages yet it is a book to be listened to as much as read. The core of the book s content is to be gained through the ear. The original edition the first music therapy text to make audio recordings of therapy sessions publicly available contained one hour of recordings. The revised edition includes almost five hours of clinical work on four CDs. The 160 annotated excerpts taken from courses of improvisational music therapy with twenty-four variously disabled children present a kaleidoscopic range of creative musical-clinical phenomena.

A classic guide to creative nature photography, now updated for the digital world.Amateur and experienced photographers interested in taking more... compelling, personal images will love this new edition of Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography, now updated to address the exciting possibilities (and challenges) of digital image-making. Author Brenda Tharp’s inspiring approach has garnered fans all over the world, as she teaches that magical skill no camera can do for you: learn how to “see.” Readers expand their photographic vision and discover deep wellsprings of creativity as they learn to use light, balance, color, design, pattern, texture, composition, and many simple techniques to take a photo from ordinary to high-impact.Featuring more than 150 stunning, all-new images, Creative Nature & Outdoor  Photography, Revised Edition is for anyone who understands the basic technical side to photography but wants to wake up their creative vision.

This book is intended for use in Creative Nonfiction courses (200- or 300-level writing courses); it also has some possibilities for first-year... Composition courses.

Nonfiction is in the facts. Creative nonfiction is in the telling. It reads like fiction, but stays loyal to the truth. Philip Gerard walks this fine... line with confidence, style, and utter zeal, looking at the world with a reporter’s unflinching eye and offering it up with all the skill of a master storyteller. With the same clarity and passion, Gerard offers instruction and advice to help aspiring and experienced writers create pieces so compelling, so engaging, that readers will never forget them.

Creative Nursing Leadership and Management provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in... a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; and creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged.

A framework for overcoming the six types of innovation killersEverybody wants innovation—or do they? Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how... individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encourage "outside the box" thinking. It shows that the antidote to this self-defeating behavior is to identify which of the six major types of constraints are hindering innovation: individual, group, organizational, industry-wide, societal, or technological. Once innovators and other leaders understand exactly which constraints are working against them and how to overcome them, they can create conditions that foster innovation instead of stopping it in its tracks. The author's model of constraints on innovation integrates insights from the vast literature on innovation with his own observations of hundreds of organizations. The book is filled with assessments, tools, and real-world examples.The author's research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Guardian and San Jose Mercury News, as well as on Fox News and on NPR's MarketplaceIncludes illustrative examples from leading organizationsOffers a practical guide for bringing new ideas to fruition even within a previously rigid organizational cultureThis book gives people in organizations the conceptual framework and practical information they need to innovate successfully.

If you are a digital artist, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic artist, designer, or serious hobbyist looking for new and interesting ways to use... Photoshop, this is the book for you! You already know how to use Photoshop as an image editing tool; now, challenge yourself and discover the more artistic aspects of the program with one of the world's best teachers by your side. In addition to four brand new chapters on real world projects, this new edition of award-winning digital artist Derek Lea's bestselling Creative Photoshop contains several brand new features such as "What you'll learn in this chapter" summaries, so you can quickly find projects using the specific tools you'd like to focus on, and supplementary information at the end of each chapter, containing useful resources and additional gallery images to provide further study and inspiration. *Stunning images from award winning digital artist Derek Lea inspire you to push your own creativity further than you even thought possible *Compatible with previous versions of Photoshop *Explore Photoshop from an entirely unique perspective as you learn how to create graffiti, antique effects, stencil art, and so much more *Fully updated throughout for CS4, plus four brand new chapters on real world projects that combine traditional art methods with Photoshop to create tactile images

This is the third edition of this terrific book intended for piano teachers and piano pedagogy students preparing to enter the profession. The book... covers aspects of elementary and intermediate level piano teaching for children & adults. Contents: PART 1: ELEMENTARY PIANO INSTRUCTION *Developmental characteristics of children *The preparation of the piano teacher *The private lesson - how to begin *Modes of instruction *Some whys, hows & whats of preschool piano *Selecting a piano series & supplementary music *Music reading at the piano *Naming notes is not reading - a sequential approach to music reading *Transposition *Keyboard theory for the elementary student *Technical development for elementary students *Practicing at the elementary level *Preparing students for concerts *Collaborative playing for the elementary student *Duet, duo piano & concerto play8ing for the elementary student *Holiday repertoire for the elementary student PART 2: INTERMEDIATE PIANO INSTRUCTION *An approach to Bach & Scarlatti *Essential Baroque repertoire for the middle school and high school student *An approach to class repertoire *Essential classic repertoire for the middle school & high school student *An approach to Romantic repertoire *Essential Romantic repertoire for the middle school & high school student *An approach to 20th century music *Essential 20th century repertoire for the secondary student *An approach to jazz literature *Introducing jazz to the intermediate student *Ensemble repertoire for the intermediate student *Technical development for the intermediate student *Practice techniques for the intermediate student *Internalization via memorization for the intermediate student *Fingering principles for the intermediate student *Music medicine and today's piano teacher PART 3: ADULT PIANO INSTRUCTION *The adult beginner in the studio & college *The adult in a college piano lab *Standards in piano proficiency PART 4: TECHNOLOGY & PIANO TEACHING & more