Barry Anderson, a Twin Cities-based filmmaker and his co-producer wife Janie Geyen are in the last stages of crafting their book for Sybex publishing on the ins and outs of shooting DSLR movies. Their experience (as some of the first people to put the Canon 5D through it’s production paces in the service of a low-budget pic in Italy) has produced a wealth of information and advice for people hoping to do the same.

I have contributed a chapter that features some post-production trickery aimed at the beginner wanting to get more juice out of their picture. Topics to be covered include: primary and secondary color correction and “looks” for video, relighting tricks, and faking diffusion, vignetting and color filters in post without the use of plug-ins. I figured these were the tricks any filmmaker would need, despite the urge to go deeper into matte painting and more. Got to save some for the follow up!

Barry’s pulling all sorts of favors for this one, so expect lots of other pro-advice packed between the covers.