Reference material is provided in this book for editors, producers, camera and sound technicians, others working in film, and film students. Each chapter is a self-contained unit about specific aspects of film-making, designed to accompany film courses being offered by the University of the West Indies, the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, and the Institute of Mass Communication, in conjunction with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. The following topics are addressed: (1) the Jamaican film; (2) perception; (3) organization and setting up: location or studio, personnel, finance; (4) scripts: development of the idea, treatments, screenplays, shooting scripts; (5) light; (6) filmstock; (7) cameras; (8) lenses; (9) filters; (10) use of lights; (11) the exposure meter; (12) camera work: camera angles, camera movement, the hand held camera, composition, eye scan; (13) continuity of time, place, and action; (14) the laboratory: forced development, answer prints, optical printers, prints, and printing masters; (15) sound: functions of sound; (16) sound recording: nature of sound, magnetic recording, synchronous sound recording, types of sound; (17) editing: sound editing problems; and (18) editing procedure: sound editing. (LMM)