The DV Rebel’s Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap

Acknowledgments

I do a lot of public speaking, so I’ve become comfortable in front of crowds. But in 2006 I was asked to give the graduation speech at a San Francisco Bay Area media school, and on the day of the event I felt myself becoming uncharacteristically nervous. The reason? I wanted to do a good job. I felt like I had something to say, and I wanted to say it well—it was important to me not to let those graduates down. This book has been like that. What I thought was going to be painless blatherings about stuff I do every day has become a passion project, and the self-imposed pressure to deliver the good stuff has had me dangling from buildings, watching the sun come up, and imposing no small amount on the good graces of my friends, family, ...