Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices: How to Write, Produce, Direct, Film, Edit and Promote a Feature-Length Film for Less than $10,000 FROM THE PUBLISHER
For the price of a used car--about $6,000--you can make a feature film if you have the right know-how. In Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices, award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt provides that know-how. He shows you:
How to select and write a story that can be produced on a tight budget How to rally a filmmaking team through creative contracts How to shoot and edit with an original style Where to find markets for your finished film
This fully updated edition also contains extensive new material on:
Useful new directing techniques How to deal with agents Making a collaborative feature Digital technology--and how it will affect low-budget filmmakers
With step-by-step instructions and summary checklists, and without the complicated technical details that only add to the cost, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices will support you spiritually, psychologially, factually, and technically as you take the bus and make your film.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Schmidt offers a complete guide to producing a low- or no-budget feature film. This 1988 original has been updated with a new chapter on digital technology, dealing with agents, and more. Thanks to the success of "indys" (independent films) such as Clerks and The Brothers McMullen and with the help of books like this, more budding filmmakers are shunning Hollywood and going it alone.
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