production and direction

Examines the origins and art of filmmaking from its earliest days to the digitized, computerized films of today.

Karen decides to make a movie as a get-well present for her grandfather, with all of her friends as the stars. But there are problems on the set, and everyone gets mad at Karen, and it turn's out making a movie isn't as easy as she thought it would be.

Provides step-by-step instructions on how to develop an idea, write a script, handle a video camera, and edit the tape to produce a video.

Describes the Broadway musical production of "Really Rosie" through all stages of preparation from planning and rehearsals to previews and opening night.

When a movie director wants to make a horror film at Ghostville Elementary, the school's ghosts decide that they would like to help, but the results could prove disastrous.

Follows a girl as she auditions for a part in a science fiction movie, spends a day filming at a movie studio, meets all the people involved in the making of a film, and attends the gala opening to see the results.

A step-by-step guide for the playwright including suggestions for finding a story, writing a script, producing a play, and performing it on stage. Includes sample plays.

Describes both onstage and backstage preparations for the opening night of an opera production.

Although sixteen-year-old Sophie has grown up working in her family's Mediterranean restaurant in Washington, D.C., she is not prepared to compete on the new reality show, Teen Test Kitchen, when her best friend Alex convinces her to audition. Includes recipes.

High schooler Natalie Ng has always kept secret her talent for talking with cats, but when she learns--from a cat--that a celebrity has been replaced by an imposter, she and her friends investigate by becoming movie extras.