Single-Camera Video

From Pre to Post-Production

Stephen Price, Jr

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Routledge
29 July 2025

Film movie production: technical skills; History; Media studies

This book contains everything a student needs to know about planning, shooting, and editing a single‑camera video project.

Steve Price takes students through the entire single‑camera video production process, from pre- to post-, showing students how to expertly plan, light, capture audio, shoot, edit, and color-correct their work successfully and effectively. In addition, he teaches students how to translate their skills to any single‑camera genre in the industry through dedicated chapters on fiction and non‑fiction projects, such as narrative films and series, commercials, music videos, documentary films, news packages, and corporate and freelance videos. Each of these chapters discusses how preproduction, production, and postproduction differ between the genres, featuring tailored tips and tricks for each individual mode of production, as well as a case study that helps demonstrate the differences and similarities between each one.

This book is a must‑have for any filmmaking, media production, and communications students taking a class in single‑camera video production.

By: Stephen Price Jr
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367445577
ISBN 10: 0367445573
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Primary , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Stephen Price, Jr. is a professor at the University of Central Missouri and has worked in the media industry for almost 30 years. He started out in sports radio, but has since produced TV news, commercials, music videos, corporate videos, and documentary films. He was the president of the Missouri Broadcast Educators Association for 6 years, and has been the Chair of the Production Aesthetics and Criticism Division of the national BEA organization. He’s been teaching for over 20 years across four different universities, with classes that cover every type of video production, including scriptwriting, cinematography, video editing, documentary film production, and corporate and freelance production.