The Indie Producers Handbook

Author : Myrl A. Schreibman
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780770433512

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The Indie Producers Handbook by Myrl A. Schreibman Pdf

Myrl Schreibman has written a comprehensive and practical, step-by-step guide for organizing and running a film from pre-production through post-production and delivery. This invaluable resource provides fundamental tools to produce a more thorough, more organized, and more professional film production. Packed with engaging and useful anecdotes, Schreibman provides a superlative introduction and overview to all of the key elements in producing for film and television. Useful to film students and filmmakers as a theoretical and practical guide to understanding the filmmaking process, Schreibman fills his manuscript with practical examples from his considerable personal experience in the film industry. Loaded with insider tips to help filmmakers avoid the pitfalls of show business.

Author : John J. Lee, Jr.,Rob Holt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136050497

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The Producer's Business Handbook by John J. Lee, Jr.,Rob Holt Pdf

The Producer's Business Handbook provides a model for making a successful business of independent filmmaking. It will give you a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and supply you with the information and tools you'll need to successfully engage all related aspects of global production and exploitation. The handbook also provides a global orientation to the relationships that the most successful producers have with the various participants in the motion picture industry. This includes how producers direct their relationships with domestic and foreign studios, agencies, attorneys, talent, completion guarantors, banks, and private investors. It provides a thorough orientation to operating production development and single purpose production companies, from solicitation of literary properties through direct rights sales, and the management of global distribution relationships. Also presented is an in-depth discussion of the team roles needed to operate these companies, as well as how to attach and direct them. For those outside of the US, this book also includes information about how to produce successful films without government funding. This edition has been updated to include comprehensive information on the internal greenlighting process, government financing, and determining actual cost-of-money. It includes new simplified project evaluation tools, expediting funding and distribution. Together with its companion CD-ROM, which contains valuable forms and spreadsheets; tutorials; and samples, this handbook presents both instruction and worksheet support to independent producers at all levels of experience.

Author : Gunnar Erickson,Harris Tulchin,Mark Halloran
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857124982

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The Independent Film Producers Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook by Gunnar Erickson,Harris Tulchin,Mark Halloran Pdf

In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie.

Author : Don Gold,Paul Mason
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781621531357

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Producing for Hollywood by Don Gold,Paul Mason Pdf

Budding filmmakers, television producers, directors, writers, and students get a crash course on the independent production scene in this riveting account of the business and its key players. Now revised to reflect the latest production trends in the entertainment industry, this book is packed with never-before-revealed secrets about the challenging and exciting role producers play in bringing a film or television pilot to the screen, told by two veteran, award-winning producers. Readers will learn what skills and traits they need to succeed as the mastermind behind an independent production, including insider tips on how to assemble and manage a talented ensemble of writers, directors, actors, and crew-members. The book also includes up-to-date contact information for film festivals and foreign distributors, as well as sample budgets, film partnership proposals, and other forms. Aspiring film and television artists will find the practical understanding and insight vital to success.

Author : Eve Light Honthaner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136053054

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The Complete Film Production Handbook by Eve Light Honthaner Pdf

This book is for working film/TV professionals and students alike. If you're a line producer, production manager, production supervisor, assistant director or production coordinator--the book has everything you'll need (including all the forms, contracts, releases and checklists) to set up and run a production--from finding a production office to turning over delivery elements. Even if you know what you're doing, you will be thrilled to find everything you need in one place. If you're not already working in film production, but think you'd like to be, read the book -- and then decide. If you choose to pursue this career path, you'll know what to expect, you'll be prepared, and you'll be ten steps ahead of everyone else just starting out. New topics and information in the fourth edition include: * Low-budget independent films, including documentaries and shorts * Information specific to television production and commercials * The industry's commitment to go green and how to do it * Coverage of new travel and shipping regulations * Updated information on scheduling, budgeting, deal memos, music clearances, communications, digital production, and new forms throughout

Author : Christine Vachon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Independent filmmakers
ISBN : 9780743256308

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A Killer Life by Christine Vachon Pdf

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Author : John J. Lee, Jr.,Anne Marie Gillen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136050657

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The Producer's Business Handbook by John J. Lee, Jr.,Anne Marie Gillen Pdf

This book is the bible for independent film producers on how to set up, finance, and run a successful and ongoing film development/production company or single-picture film.

Author : Jackie L. Young
Publisher : Young Films and Publishing LLC
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0977432858

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Indie Filmmaker Producer's Guide by Jackie L. Young Pdf

This book is written for the independent film producer who wears more hats than they thought they would ever wear but who knows that to get a film done it takes doing whatever needs getting done. This book also pushes the producer to take their filmmaking to another level and to find ways to make their movies more competitive with other movies in the marketplace by understanding some of the mistakes that indie filmmakers make and how to avoid those mistakes. The book covers all phases of film production from pre-production, through production and into the post production phase and includes a section on distribution. The book provides pertinent information on film production from a real independent filmmaker who has been in the trenches making films for years. The author shares insight into issues and problems that indie filmmakers face and provides technical and creative solutions and suggestions.

Author : Mark de Valk,Sarah Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136508516

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The Film Handbook by Mark de Valk,Sarah Arnold Pdf

The Film Handbook examines the current state of filmmaking and how film language, technique and aesthetics are being utilised for today’s ‘digital film’ productions. It reflects on how critical analysis’ of film underpins practice and story, and how developing an autonomous ‘vision’ will best aid student creativity. The Film Handbook offers practical guidance on a range of traditional and independent ‘guerrilla’ film production methods, from developing script ideas and the logistics of planning the shoot to cinematography, sound and directing practices. Film professionals share advice of their creative and practical experiences shooting both on digital and film forms. The Film Handbook relates theory to the filmmaking process and includes: • documentary, narrative and experimental forms, including deliberations on ‘reading the screen’, genre, mise-en-scène, montage, and sound design • new technologies of film production and independent distribution, digital and multi-film formats utilised for indie filmmakers and professional dramas, sound design and music • the short film form, theories of transgressive and independent ‘guerrilla’ filmmaking, the avant-garde and experimental as a means of creative expression • preparing to work in the film industry, development of specialisms as director, producer, cinematographer, editor, and the presentation of creative work.

Author : Maureen A. Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Low-budget films
ISBN : 1932907750

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Producer to Producer by Maureen A. Ryan Pdf

"This is THE book for producers. Nowhere else will you find the wisdom, insight, and tried and-true, nuts-and-bolts know-how found here."---Sheila Curran Dennin, Writer/director: RED FLAG; Becoming Medusa --Book Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Blue Canoe Digital
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Indie Artist/Producer Handbook. "Surviving and Thriving In The Digital Revolution" by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas A. Crowell
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136067501

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The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers by Thomas A. Crowell Pdf

* How can you use a state's film tax credits to fund your film? SEE PAGE 63. * You have an idea you want to pitch to a production company; how do you safeguard your concept? SEE PAGE 77. * How can you fund your production with product placement? SEE PAGE 157. * How do you get a script to popular Hollywood actors and deal with their agents? SEE PAGE 222. Find quick answers to these and hundreds of other questions in this new edition of The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers. This no-nonsense reference provides fast answers in plain English-no law degree required! Arm yourself with the practical advice of author Thomas Crowell, a TV-producer-turned-entertainment-lawyer. This new edition features: * New sections on product placement, film tax credits and production incentive financing, Letters of Intent, and DIY distribution (four-walling, YouTube, Download-to-own, Amazon.com, iTunes, and Netflix) * Updated case law * Even more charts and graphics to help you find the information you need even more quickly. This book is the next best thing to having an entertainment attorney on retainer!

Author : Dan Irish
Publisher : Premier Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computer games
ISBN : UCSC:32106018136249

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The Game Producer's Handbook by Dan Irish Pdf

This book serves as a reference for students who want to acquire the knowledge and skills to succeed in the video-game producing industry. --book cover.

Author : Randall Blair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735889830

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The Producer's Sourcebook, 3rd Edition by Randall Blair Pdf

Author : Mark Litwak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Artists' contracts
ISBN : IND:30000095073437

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Dealmaking in the Film & Television Industry by Mark Litwak Pdf

A practical guide to current entertainment laws peculiarities and "creative" practices. Includes two new chapters: Legal Remedies and Retaining Attorneys, Agents, and Managers.