Book recommendations for a Filmmaker.

This list is compiled of a few books for filmmaking, it’s to get you started and is in no particular order, it is however specialising in Production (set) design and Art direction. Please contribute any books you think are relevant in the comments.

~ Ways of Seeing by John Berger

~ Create a scene by Bruce Hill

~ Production design for television by Terry Byrne.

~ CGI effects in Hollywood science-fiction cinema 1989-95 the wonder years by Michele Pierson

~ Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking by Annie Atkins

~ Model-Making: Materials and Methods by David Neat

~ Production Design: Architects of the screen by Jane Barwell

~ The filmmaker's guide to production design by Vincent LoBrutto

~ Designing for Screen: Production Design and Art direction explained by Georgia Shorter 

~ TV by design: modern art and the rise of network television by Lynn Spigel

~ British Film Design: A History by Laurie N. Ede

~ Production design in the contemporary American film by Beverly Heisner

~ Drawing the line: Technical Hand drafting for film and television by David McHenry

~ What an art director does: An introduction to motion picture production design by Ward Preston