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Filmmaking

Direct Your Movie from Script to Screen Using Proven Hollywood Techniques

  • 1st Edition - December 15, 2010
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Jason Tomaric
  • Language: English

Filmmaking, the definitive resource for filmmakers, blows the doors off the secretive film industry and shows you how to adapt the Hollywood system for your production. Full of t… Read more

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Filmmaking, the definitive resource for filmmakers, blows the doors off the secretive film industry and shows you how to adapt the Hollywood system for your production. Full of thousands of tips, tricks, and techniques from Emmy-winning director Jason Tomaric, Filmmaking systematically takes you through every step of how to produce a successful movie – from developing a marketable idea through selling your completed movie. Whether you’re on a budget of $500 or $50 million, Filmmaking reveals some of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets. Make your movie and do it right.

The companion site includes:

  • Over 30 minutes of high-quality video tutorials featuring over a dozen working Hollywood professionals

  • Industry-standard forms and contracts you can use for your production

  • Sample scripts, storyboards, schedules, call sheets, contracts, letters from the producer, camera logs, and press kits

  • 45-minute video that takes you inside the movie that launched Jason’s career. 3,000 extras, 48 locations, 650 visual effects—all made from his parent’s basement for $25,000.

Key features

  • Written by an Emmy-winning insider who shows filmmakers how to translate Hollywood best practices to low-budget features—and develop a successful career in the biz

Readership

Beginning independent filmmakers making low-budget movies

Table of contents

Table of Contents
DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1: The Script

PRE-PRODUCTION
Chapter 2: Pre-Production
Chapter 3: Budgeting
Chapter 4: Scheduling
Chapter 5: Insurance
Chapter 6: Locations
Chapter 7: Auditioning Actors
Chapter 8: The Crew
Chapter 9: Unions & Guilds
Chapter 10: Equipment
Chapter 11: Production Design

PRODUCTION
Chapter 12: Production
Chapter 13: Acting
Chapter 14: Directing
Chapter 15: Cinematography
Chapter 16: Audio Recording
Chapter 17: Hair & Make-Up
Chapter 18: Craft Services & Catering

POST-PRODUCTION
Chapter 19: Editing
Chapter 20: Digital Effects
Chapter 21: Post-Production Audio
Chapter 22: Music
MARKETING
Chapter 23: Distribution
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 22, 2011
  • Language: English

About the author

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Jason Tomaric

Fourteen-time Emmy, Telly, and CINE award-winning filmmaker Jason J. Tomaric got his start producing an ultra low-budget independent film in Ohio that got picked up for distribution. He is now a Los Angeles-based director and cinematographer who has shot four features, dozens of national television commercials, and numerous documentaries in over 20 countries. He has taught at leading film schools such as UCLA and New York Film Academy and is bringing high-caliber multimedia filmmaking education to the web at FilmSkills.com.
Affiliations and expertise
Jason J. Tomaric is an Emmy-award winning director with two feature films, dozens of television commercials and several educational DVD series to his credit. Based in Los Angeles, he has taught in film schools across the country. Tomaric's directorial work has been honored over 14 times with Emmy, Telly, and the prestigious Golden CINE awards.

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