Filmmaking Budget
January 22, 2012
Budget Film Making – Convert a Car LCD Screen to a Portable Video Monitor Guide
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People on Sunday – Criterion Collection (DVD) $18.25 An early experiment in neo-realist filmmaking, MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG is a low-budget drama about two men, a cab driver and a salesman, who find themselves with nothing to do on a Sunday in Berlin. The friends pick up a couple of young women, and the four… |
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130 Projects to Get You Into Filmmaking (Paperback) $15.1 Presents a series of projects intended to develop a wide array of filmmaking skills and techniques using readily available, low-budget equipment, and provides advice for pursuing a career in filmmaking. |
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Indie Film Producing (Paperback) $19.96 Description not available. |
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Digital Filmmaking 101 $17.65 Digital Filmmaking 101 reveals the secrets of making professional-quality ditial moviemaking on ultra-low budgets. |
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The Matrix (Paperback) $14.8 The Matrix (1999) was a true end-of-the-millennium movie, a statement of the American Zeitgeist, and a prognosis for the future of big-budget Hollywood filmmaking. Starring Keanu Reeves as Neo, a computer programmer transformed into a messianic … |
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Sex Attack $11.1 What Ed Wood and Russ Meyer were to low-budget filmmaking, Fildor and Vitus are to the erotic, spaced-out graphic novel. Sex Attack mines some of the same territory as Wood but adds an erotic sheen, depicting a memorable gallery of raunchy creatures … |
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The Exorcist (Paperback) $30.74 Perhaps the most notorious big-budget horror film ever made, our new anthology of essays onThe Exorcistincludes four hundred pages of insightful criticism, including interviews with William Peter Blatty (on the making ofThe Exorcist |
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Film School (DVD) $23.8 This innovative film follows three NYU film students as they shoot their first movies over a 10 week period. All aspects of the film making process are covered, and difficult topics such as handling budgets, dealing with legal problems, and personali… |
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130 Projects to Get You Into Filmmaking $21.99 Brand new in Barron”s Aspire Series for students of various arts, this book offers expert guidance in the principles, practice, and techniques of filmmaking. Author and filmmaker Elliot Grove introduces students to the craft of making movies by explaining simple techniques and advising on use of readily available, low-budget equipment and software. He devotes special attention to– The Lingo: film industry vocabulary and money-raising techniques Getting Organized: necessary equipment and how to get it The Shoot: cameras, lighting, sound, storyboards, and more Looking Good: makeup, stunts, special effects, and more Post Production: the editor”s role, and much more Additional chapters describe the role of directors and advise students on how to publicize, market, and distribute a film, how to choose a formal film course, and how to turn film training into a professional career. More than 250 color photos and illustrations. |
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Adobe Premiere Elements Classroom in a Book $28 Just because you have a small budget doesn’t mean you have small aspirations. Now that Adobe is offering under-$100 video editing software in the form of Premiere Elements, you want to take advantage of all of its features, so that the only thing limiting your filmmaking efforts is your own imagination. |
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Before You Shoot: A Guide to Low Budget Film Production $4.59 Written for producers, production managers, directors, and everyone else involved in low-budget filmmaking and videomaking, Before You Shoot covers the initial planning of a project through its pre-production and post-production: finding money, script breakdown, budgeting, crew and equipment shooting, editing and distribution. |
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Belgischer K Nstler $40.4 Kapitel: Chantal Akerman, Marcel Broodthaers, Wim Delvoye, Pol Bury, Lili Dujourie, Frans Masereel, Delphine Boël, Panamarenko, George Minne, Kris Martin, Viona Ielegems, Guillaume Bijl, Andy Wauman, La Jeune Peinture Belge, René Carcan. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Chantal Anne Akerman (born June 6, 1950) is a Belgian film director and artist. Renowned for a hyperrealist style, Akerman’s work seeks to inscribe the “images between the images.” Akerman’s most famous film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) exemplifies a dedication to the ellipses of conventional narrative cinema. Akerman was born to an observant Jewish family in Brussels, Belgium. Her grandparents and her mother were sent to Auschwitz; only her mother came back. This is a very important factor in her personal experience, and her mother’s anxiety is a recurrent theme in her filmography. Akerman claims that after viewing Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou (1965) at 15 she “decided to make movies the same night.” At 18 she entered the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion, a Belgian film school. During her first term, however, Akerman chose to leave and make Saute ma ville, a thirteen-minute black-and-white picture in 35mm. Akerman partially subsidized Saute ma ville from shares she sold on the Antwerp diamond exchange, procuring its remaining budget through clerical work. In 1971 Saute ma ville premiered at the Oberhausen short-film festival. This same year Akerman moved to New York and remained there until 1972. At Anthology Film Archives in New York Akerman became impressed by the work of Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Michael Snow, and Andy Warhol. She states that Snow’s La Région Centrale introduced her to the “relationship between film, time and energy.”¹ Her 1972 feature Hotel Monterey and shorts La Chambre 1 and La Chambre 2 reveal structural filmmaking’s influence through their |
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Digital Filmmaking $14 Now there is no reason to prevent anybody from making a film. The technology exists, the equipment is much cheaper than it was, the post-production facilities are on a laptop computer, the entire equipment to make a film can go in a couple of cases and be carried as hand luggage on a plane. –Mike Figgis In this indispensable guide, Academy Award nominee Mike Figgis offers the reader a step-by-step tutorial in how to use digital filmmaking technology so as to get the very best from it. He outlines the equipment and its uses, and provides an authoritative guide to the shooting process–from working with actors to lighting, framing, and camera movement. He dispenses further wisdom on the editing process and the use of sound and music, all while establishing a sound aesthetic basis for the digital format. Offering everything that you could wish to know on the subject, this is a handbook that will become an essential backpocket eference for the digital film enthusiast–whether your goal is to make no-budget movies or simply to put your video camera to more use than just holidays and weddings. |
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Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low Budget Movies $8.99 Digital Filmmaking 101 reveals the secrets of making professional-quality ditial moviemaking on ultra-low budgets. |
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Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Budget Movies $26.95 Dale Newton Sir, John Gaspard,Paperback – New Edition, Edition: 2, English-language edition,Pub by Wiese, Michael Productions |
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Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory $35 Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory: Hollywood’s Genius Bad Boy is the first biography ever written about this eccentric genius of early-twentieth-century filmmaking. Goulding (1891-1959) was by turns a writer, producer, composer, and actor, but it is as a director that he made an indelible impression. He is most remembered today as the director of Grand Hotel, the great Event Movie of the Depression. At the dawn of sound, he wrote the story for the Academy Award-winning musical The Broadway Melody and collaborated memorably with Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy for The Trespasser. He excelled at anti-war drama ( White Banners, The Dawn Patrol, We Are Not Alone), fantastic Bette Davis weepies ( Dark Victory, The Old Maid, The Great Lie), lilting romantic dramas ( The Constant Nymph, Claudia), big-budget literary adaptations ( The Razor’s Edge), and even film noir ( Nightmare Alley). The London-born Goulding was a complicated and contradictory man whose notorious orgies, bisexuality, drinking, and drug addictions were whispered about in Hollywood for years. Yet his well-crafted plots and compelling characters set a new standard in American cinema and had a profound influence on the future of filmmaking. |
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Extreme Dv at Used-Car Prices $2.03 For years, award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt has been teaching aspiring writers, directors, and producers how to make no-budget films, both in workshops and in his classic guide, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices. Now Schmidt shows how it is easier–and cheaper–than ever to make an innovative, high quality work, thanks to digital video. Filled with the latest information on equipment and software, ideas for experimenting with new techniques, and advice based on Schmidt’s own experiences, Extreme DV at Used-Car Prices offers a step-by-step tour through the making of a feature-length movie using the newest and ever-changing DV technology. Instructive and inspiring, this one-of-a-kind book is essential for filmmakers with lots of ideas but little money. |
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Fast, Cheap, & Under Control $26.95 Learn the tricks and pitfalls of low-budget filmmaking from 33 successful indepent films and the filmmakers who created them. This is the most important book an independent writer/director/producer may ever read. Includes never before published interviews with low-budget mavericks such as Steven Soderbergh, Roger Corman, Jon Favreau, Henry Jaglom, and many more. |
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Film Talk: Directors at Work $68 What 1970s Hollywood filmmaker influenced Quentin Tarantino? How have contemporary Japanese horror films inspired Takashi Shimizu, director of the huge box office hit The Grudge? What is it like to be an African American director in the twenty-first century?The answers to these questions, along with many more little-known facts and insights, can be found in Film Talk, an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at filmmaking from the 1940s to the present. In eleven intimate and revealing interviews, contemporary film directors speak frankly about their work-their successes and their disappointments, their personal aspirations, struggles, relationships, and the politics that affect the industry.A medley of directors including those working in pop culture and documentary, as well as feminist filmmakers, social satirists, and Hollywood mavericks recount stories that have never before been published. Among them are Monte Hellman, the auteur of the minimalist masterpiece Two-Lane Blacktop; Albert Maysles, who with his late brother David, created some of the most important documentaries of the 1960s, including Salesman and The Beatles: What’s Happening?; Robert Downey Sr., whose social satires Putney Swope and Greaser’s Palace paved the way for a generation of filmmakers; Bennett Miller, whose film Capote won an Academy Award in 2005; and Jamie Babbit, a lesbian crossover director whose low-budget film But I’m a Cheerleader! became a mainstream hit.The candid conversations, complimented by more than fifty photographs, including many that are rare, make this book essential reading for aspiring moviemakers, film scholars, and everyone interested in the how movies are made and who the fascinating individuals are who make them. |
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Filming The Undead $18.99 (back cover) With the advent of cheaper and better digital video cameras, the world of movie-making is now within everyone”s grasp. Filming the Undead is the complete guide to making a zombie movie that pushes the boundaries of your imagination and taste, while showing you how to work within your budget. The book”s topics cover the entire filmmaking process, from coming up with an initial outline to marketing your movie. Step-by-step instructions show how to create your own special effects and makeup, including spurting blood and full-facial prosthetics. Tips and case studies throughout the book are based on the author”s own experiences of making thrilling, low-budget zombie movies. |
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Films Directed By Roger Corman (Study Guide) $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Pit and the Pendulum, the Little Shop of Horrors, a Bucket of Blood, Creature From the Haunted Sea, the Haunted Palace, Tales of Terror, Von Richthofen and Brown, the Wild Angels, House of Usher, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Frankenstein Unbound, X, the Intruder, the Masque of the Red Death, Last Woman on Earth, the Terror, the Raven, It Conquered the World, the Wasp Woman, the Tomb of Ligeia, the Trip, the Premature Burial, Attack of the Crab Monsters, the Undead, Gunslinger, the Secret Invasion, Teenage Cave Man, Gas-S-S-S, She Gods of Shark Reef, Rock All Night, Not of This Earth, Day the World Ended, Swamp Women, Tower of London, Sorority Girl. Excerpt: A Bucket of Blood A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman , starring Dick Miller was set in beatnik culture. The film, produced on a $50,000 budget, was shot in five days, and shares many of the low-budget filmmaking aesthetics commonly associated with Corman’s work. Written by Charles B. Griffith , the film is a dark comic satire about a socially awkward young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady’s cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence. When he is pressured to create similar work, he becomes murderous . A Bucket of Blood was the first of three collaborations between Corman and Griffith in the comedy genre, followed by The Little Shop of Horrors and Creature from the Haunted Sea . Corman had made no previous attempt at the genre, although past and future Corman productions in other genres incorporated comedic elements. The film works as a satire not only of Corman’s own films, but also of the art world and teen films of the 1950s. The plot has similarities to Mystery of the Wax |
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Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success $39.99 Learn best practices for managing software development projects from an unexpected but surprisingly relevant source: the producers of major motion pictures.What can Hollywood”s hundred years of filmmaking experience teach the software industry? Like movies, software projects can be complex, creative, and high risk. But Hollywood has a better track record for delivering projects to plan. Now you can apply the project-management best practices used by motion-picture producers and production managers to your own work–and get better results.The author–an expert in software engineering and process improvement–shares what he”s learned from film-industry project managers to deliver software projects on time and on budget. You”ll gain practical insights and effective techniques you can apply right away for estimation and planning; controlling costs, schedules, and changes; coordinating multiple teams; tracking progress; reporting status; managing logistics; management reviews; and more. |
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In MacArthur Park $24.95 This sharply etched tale of paranoia and guilt was one of the first films to feature a Native American in a lead role. A moving portrayal of a Mojave Indian displaced in the skid row section of downtown Los Angeles, Bruce Schwartz’s cult drama follows Triam Lee (Adam Silver) as he turns to a life of crime in order to support his family. After inadvertently murdering someone, Triam has to face racist police and his own guilt before he can return to his reservation in Arizona. An impressive example of taut, resourceful, low-budget filmmaking (Los Angeles Times).System Requirements:Running Time 83 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE |
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Independent Film Experience: Interviews with Directors and Producers $39.95 You see them on the video shelves, with titles such as Shadow Tracker, Psycho Girls, and The Blair Witch Project. Skeptically, perhaps, you rent one and slip it into the VCR. Hey, you think, this isn’t so bad—sometimes actually quite good. Suddenly, you discover that there is a whole range of movies from filmmakers operating outside the studio system that have their own attractions that the big budget fare can’t match. You have, of course, discovered the world of independent filmmaking.A fascinating group of independent film directors and producers, in interviews with the author, discuss their work and the state of the independent film industry at the end of the 20th century. Joe Bagnardi, Dennis Devine, Andrew Harrison, Jeff Leroy, Andrew Parkinson, Brett Piper, and 23 others cover such topics as the increased interest in independent films and how they are changing thanks to high-tech advances. These filmmakers vary widely in age, experience, formats and budgets—and choice of subject matter—but they all have a great passion for their work. Author Biography: Kevin J. Lindenmuth is an independent writer, producer and director. He is also the author of Making Movies on Your Own (1998, $35). He resides in Derry, New Hampshire. |
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Indie Film Producing: The Craft of Low Budget Filmmaking $29.95 Suzanne Lyons,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Elsevier Science |
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Jim Jarmusch $22 The first major English-language study of JarmuschAt a time when gimmicky, action-driven blockbusters ruled Hollywood, Jim Jarmusch spearheaded a boom in independent cinema by making low-budget films focused on intimacy, character, and new takes on classical narratives. His minimal form, peculiar pacing, wry humor, and blank affect have since been adopted by directors including Sophia Coppola, Hal Harley, Richard Linklater, and Wong Kar-Wai. Juan A. Suarez”s Jim Jarmusch analyzes the director”s work from three mutually implicated perspectives: in relation to independent filmmaking from the 1980s to the present; as a form of cultural production that appropriates existing icons, genres, and motifs; and as an instance of postmodern politics.A volume in the series Contemporary Film Directors, edited by James R. Naremore |
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Joel Schumacher $53.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Joel Schumacher is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.Schumacher was born in New York City, the son of Marian and Francis Schumacher. His mother was a Swedish Jew, and his father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee who died when Joel was four years old. Schumacher studied at Parsons The New School for Design and The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. After first working in the fashion industry, he realized his true love was in filmmaking. He moved out to Los Angeles, where he began his media work as a costume designer in films such as Sleeper and developed his skills with television work while earning an MFA from UCLA. He wrote the screenplay for the 1976 low-budget hit movie Car Wash and a number of other minor successes |
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Make Movies That Make Money!: The Low-Budget Filmmaker’s Guide to Commercial Success $39.95 In the modern filmmaking world, the term "low-budget" can refer to anything from a $10 million indie flick to a student film produced on borrowed equipment with little to no money at all. Similarly, low budget filmmakers can range from seasoned auteurs attempting to shed the shackles of major studio control to novice talents trying to break into the industry. Designed for would-be filmmakers of all ages and experience levels, this book explains how to make a good, as well as commercially successful, low-budget movie in the current climate of mainstream, multi-million dollar Hollywood films. The purpose is not only to show low-budget filmmakers how to get movies made and distributed, but also how to maximize a film’s potential for significant profit. Written in practical, understandable terms, the book covers everything from commercially viable genres to the most efficient film and video formats, along with tips on hiring stars, pursuing investors, distributing and marketing a film, and keeping track of expenses. |
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Monsoon $5.99 This south seas adventure is a classic example of low-budget filmmaking in action. Acclaimed Director Edgar G. Ulmer uses miniatures,… |
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Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking: Practical Techniques for the Guerilla Filmmaker $41.95 Audience: Filmmakers on a tight budget, both amateur and professional. |
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People on Sunday $25.99 An early experiment in neo-realist filmmaking, MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG is a low-budget drama about two men, a cab driver and a salesman, who… |
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People on Sunday $29.99 An early experiment in neo-realist filmmaking, MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG is a low-budget drama about two men, a cab driver and a salesman, who… |
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Principal Photography $135.87 By using photography as a storytelling medium, the cinematographer plays a key role in translating a screenplay into images and capturing the director’s vision of a film. This volume presents in-depth interviews with 13 prominent cinematographers, who discuss their careers and the art and craft of feature film cinematography. The interviewees–who represent the spectrum of big-budget Hollywood and low-budget independent filmmaking from the sixties through the nineties–talk about their responsibilities, including lighting, camera movement, equipment, cinematic grammar, lenses, film stocks, interpreting the script, the budget and schedule, and the psychological effect of images. Each interview is preceded by a short biography and a selected filmography, which provide the background for a detailed analysis of the photographic style and technique of many highly acclaimed and seminal films. |
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Putting the Pieces Together: The Graffiti Model of Independent Filmmaking: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of Quality of Life $0.99 Want to see what do-it-yourself filmmaking is all about? Benjamin Morgan did, so he made the low-budget, scraped together film Quality of Life. Shot on location in San Francisco’s Mission District, the movie sheds light on a clandestine graffiti subculture, telling an authentic and gripping story of two young graffiti writers whose friendship and lives unravel after they get arrested. Morgan’s book delves into how he and his crew were able to build their movie out of nothing, get it screened to sold-out audiences at film festivals nationwide, and even take home a couple awards. Both a compelling story and an intriguing behind-the-scenes look at underground film, Putting the Pieces Together explores a burgeoning field in the evolving world of cinema. |
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Rushes $18.12 Josh Becker has been making movies since he was a teenager. His first film was made at age thirteen, and by 9th grade he was tackling Oedipus Rex with future cult-icon Bruce Campbell. Since then he has written and directed numerous short films, four feature films, several television movies and worked on successful tv shows.RUSHES is at heart a passionate, honest and opinionated look behind the scenes of writing, producing and directing low-budget movies. From Josh’s early days working with future Spider-Man director Sam Raimi on his original Evil Dead to his days writing and directing Xena: Warrior Princess in New Zealand and beyond, RUSHES is filled with stories. Whether you’re a budding thespian, scriptwriter, director or you simply just love movies, you’ll find insights, frustrations and answers to your questions in the experiences Josh has enjoyed and endured in his three and a half decades of filmmaking trenches.His supporting cast in these adventures include aforementioned Sam Raimi and frequent collaborator Bruce Campbell, as well as stars small and great like Anthony Quinn, Lucy Lawless, Rob Tapert, Renee O’Connor, Gary Jones, Scott Spiegel, Joe LoDuca, Rick Sandford, Mariah Carey, Stephen Baldwin, John Cassavetes and many, many others. |
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Sex Attack $14.95 What Ed Wood and Russ Meyer were to low-budget filmmaking, Fildor and Vitus are to the erotic, spaced-out graphic novel. Sex Attack mines some of the same territory as Wood but adds an erotic sheen, depicting a memorable gallery of raunchy creatures indulging in all manner of cheesy behavior. Meet Eddy, the nerd who wears his girlfriend Jasylous undies. They live in Hyperville, neighbors to a retired movie star with equally strange tastes. When a group of Martians arrives, determined to turn Hyperville into a writhing mass of fornicating bodies, its up to Jasylou and company to save the day, flee in terror, or join the horny aliens, orgy-minded religious fanatics, dumbfounded soldiers, and appalled bystanders in the comic chaos. This sexy and satirical graphic novel skewers every cliche of Z movies. |
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Sexbomb $19.95 Welcome to the wacky but deadly world of low-budget filmmaking! Whie a sleazy low-budget movie producer begins shooting his latest schlock epics i rip your flesh with pliers and werewolves in heat, his sexy young wife plots his death,and cleverly plans to use the films as a cover! |
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Shooting Digital Video $54.83 Digital video is a revolutionary force in filmmaking today, and Shooting Digital Video provides a much-needed guide to selecting the right equipment for the job and using it to produce professional-level work. An excellent resource for those interested in shooting documentaries, news, shorts, home videos, corporate videos, or even low-budget features, Shooting Digital Video offers complete technological coverage – from editing to compression for the web. From acquiring and maintaining the necessary equipment to shooting and lighting your DV, this book will show both the professional and the amateur how to do it with style. Written by a professional filmmaker and author of six other camera-related titles, this handbook offers the expert’s view of this innovative process. Providing the necessary information and advice to make a masterful looking digital video, this text covers the practical, theoretical, and technical aspects of the process. Beyond an in-depth look at digital video cameras and equipment, some other topics covered are editing, DV to film transfers, image stabilization, transferring stills to computer, touching up your pictures, lenses and filters, audio and audio accessories, and suppliers. As an added value, the companion website features sample videos, freeware and shareware of editing and compression software, and other technical updates. Advice for the professional as well as the amateur on how to shoot DV with styleIncludes technical information on equipment selection, use, maintenance, and accessoriesCompanion website features tutorials, discussion on and links to various software programs |
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Short Films $23.24 The advent of affordable filmmaking equipment and software, combined with the popularity of websites such as Youtube–which encourage the submission of user-created short films–add up to interest in making and viewing shorts being higher than ever. Experienced professionals are interviewed on all aspects of short film production process in this filmmakers” resource that covers screenwriting, casting, shooting formats, location scouting, soundtracks, computer effects, and how to get the final product distributed. Five award-winning short films from distributor Dazzle Films–including Being Bad and BAFTA-nominated Hotel Infinity –discussed as case studies in the book are featured on a bonus DVD, along with layouts for budget spreadsheets, release forms, contracts, and more. |
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Studying British Cinema: 1990s $17.2 The 1990s were years of contradiction for British cinema. On the one hand, the exhibition and production of British films bounced back from the dark days of the early 1980s, in which cinema attendance and filmmaking slumped to an all-time low. On the other hand, foreign investment now played a major role in supporting the industry, with companies erecting cinema multiplexs and, particularly in the case of American investment, pouring money into big budget British productions. While this kept studios, technicians, directors, and actors busy, none of the profits from these films made it back to Britain. Through a detailed analysis of twenty films, Studying British Cinema: 1990s painstakingly reexamines this fragile revival of British film fortunes. Placing these and other films against a backdrop of vibrant cultural, technological, and political change, the volume illuminates a decade that would come to be known as “Cool Brittania,” evoking a deliberate comparison with the events of the 1960s. |
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Talking Pictures: Interviews with Young British Film-Makers $2.61 Talking Pictures is a vibrant collection of interviews with the cream of new talent emerging in the British film industry today. It”s a vivid snapshot and informal handbook of the trials and tribulations–and joys–of independent filmmaking: from the scriptwriting and financing to shooting, editing, marketing, and distribution. Interviewees include Eric Fellner, executive producer of Four Weddings and a Funeral ; Andrew Macdonald, producer of Trainspotting and The Beach ; Gary Sinyor, co-director of Leon the Pig Farmer ; Brianne Perkins of the Children”s Film Unit ; Ray Brady, director of the highly controversial Boy Meets Girl ; and A. Hans Scheirl, director, producer, and actor of seven parts in the ”low to no budget” Dandy Dust. |
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Terminal Force/Ring Around the World $7.99 An exploitation maestro who carries the torch in the grand tradition of low-budget filmmaking, Fred Olen Ray (HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW… |
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The Art Of The Documentary $44.99 Have you noticed the renaissance of documentary filmmaking going on around you? Some are inspired by the work of legendary directors and cinematographers such as the Maysles brothers, D.A. Pennabaker & Chris Hegedus, Errol Morris, or Ken Burns. Others follow their own idols or simply set their own course. Inexpensive video camera equipment and video editing software have helped fuel this new wave of truth-tellers, bringing the tools of the craft within reach of amateurs and students, as well as independent journalists and filmmakers on a budget. In The Art of the Documentary, the directors, editors, cinematographers, and producers behind today’s most thought-provoking nonfiction films reveal the thought processes, methods, and collaborations that have guided their efforts- from project conception to developing, producing, shooting, editing, and releasing some of the finest documentary films of recent decades. This richly illustrated volume, which will appeal to professional and aspiring filmmakers, as well as documentary enthusiasts, features conversations with director Ken Burns (The Civil War, Jazz, Baseball), director/cinematographer D A Pennebaker (Dont Look Back, The War Room), director/cinematographer Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), director Errol Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line), director Chris Hegedus (Startup.com, Down from the Mountain), editor Larry Silk (Pumping Iron, Wild Man Blues), cinematographer Buddy Squires (The Civil War, Ram Dass, Fierce Grace), director/producer Lauren Lazin (Tupac: Resurrection, Journey of Dr. Dre), editor/director Paula Heredia (The Vagina Monologues, In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01), director/cinematographer Kirsten Johnson (Fahrenheit 9/11, Innocent Until Proven Guilty), and editor Geof Bartz (Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, He’s Having a Baby). And with contributions by: Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentaries and HBO Family, Carol Dysinger, film editor and professor, NYU |
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The Art of the Storyboard $28.95 Communicate your vision, tell your story and plan major scenes with simple, effective storyboarding techniques. Using sketches of shots from classic films, from silents to the present day, John Hart leads you through the history and evolution of this craft to help you get to grips with translating your vision onto paper, from the rough sketch to the finished storyboard. More than 150 illustrations from the author”s and other storyboard artists” work illuminate the text throughout to help you master the essential components of storyboarding, such as framing, placement of figures, and camera angles. Level: Novice * Plan effectively, communicate clearly and budget accurately with strong storyboards* See how it”s done – with more than 150 detailed sketches and storyboards illustrating every point* If you are just starting your filmmaking career and want to get to grips with this vital preproduction tool – let John Hart show you how! |
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The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film $24.93 The Cinematic Tango explores the cultural politics of over sixty years of filmmaking in Argentina. From the 1940s when film was a successful studio product to the 1980s post-dictatorship period when national cinema was utilized as a public relations tool, Tamara L. Falicov explores how national culture on film has been shaped, articulated, and debated. She provides in-depth analysis of Argentina’s contemporary period, when financial incentives led to the production of commercial “blockbusters” as well as new opportunities for first-time directors, sparking a surge of low-budget, independent filmmaking. |
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The Complete Guide To Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking $17.95 Josh Becker, Bruce Campbell (Introduction),Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Point Blank |
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The Complete Guide to Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking $31.95 Most books about film production assume that you have an idea and a script to shoot. Most screenwriting books are geared to how to write a script that you can sell to Hollywood (as though the authors of these books had the slightest clue) and do not take into consideration that you might be shooting the script yourself, possibly with your own money. This book is about how to write a script properly that you can rationally shoot, how to shoot it, how to finish it, how to sell it, and also how to get it shown. |
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The Complete Guide to Low-budget Feature Filmmaking $14.95 The Complete Guide to Low-budget Feature Filmmaking |
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The DV Rebel’s Guide $49.99 Written by Stu Maschwitz, co-founder of the Orphanage (the legendary guerrilla visual effects studio responsible for amazing and award-winning effects in such movies as Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this book is a must-have for all those budding filmmakers and students who want to produce action movies with visual effects but don’t have Hollywood budgets. The Orphanage was created by three twenty-something visual effects veterans who wanted to make their own feature films and discovered they could do this by utilizing home computers, off the shelf software, and approaching things artistically. This guide details exactly how to do this: from planning and selecting the necessary cameras, software, and equipment, to creating specific special effects (including gunfire, Kung Fu fighting, car chases, dismemberment, and more) to editing and mixing sound and music. Its mantra is that the best, low-budget action moviemakers must visualize the end product first in order to reverse-engineer the least expensive way to get there. Readers will learn how to integrate visual effects into every aspect of filmmaking–before filming, during filming and with in camera shots, and with computers in postproduction. Throughout the book, the author makes specific references to and uses popular action movies (both low and big-budget) as detailed examples–including El Mariachi, La Femme Nikita, Die Hard, and Terminator 2. |
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The Digital Filmmaking Handbook with DVD $3.92 With this completely updated version of the best-selling start-to-finish production guide, readers learn to merge traditional filmmaking skills with new technologies to create any type of digital video production. The book teaches how to use a desktop computer to create Hollywood-style feature films, documentaries, promotional tapes, training videos, and more. Updates to the first edition include a DVD (Win/Mac) with raw film footage to use as practice with the tutorials, new material on how to write, budget, and schedule productions, new end-of-chapter exercises, and much more. With the comprehensive information provided in The Digital Filmmaking Handbook, Second Edition, anyone can produce low budget, high quality digital films. |
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The Filmmaker’s Guide to Production Design $19.95 Learn to turn a simple screenplay into a visual masterpiece! Top production designers share their real-life experiences to explain the aesthetic, narrative, and technical aspects of the craft. Step by step, aspiring filmmakers will discover sound instruction on the tools of the trade, and established filmmakers will enjoy a new outlook on production design. They will learn, for example, the craft behind movie magic-such as how to create a design metaphor, choose a color scheme, use space, and work within all genres of film, from well-funded studio projects to guerilla filmmaking. This indispensable resource also contains a history of movie making and guidelines for digital production design. For the experienced filmmaker seeking new design ideas to the struggling newcomer stretching low-budget dollars, this book makes the processes and concepts of production design accessible. |
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The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron $0.88 With the release of Avatar, James Cameron cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking. It’s a distinction he’s long been building, through a directing career that includes such cinematic landmarks as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, and the highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic. The Futurist is the first in-depth look at every aspect of this audacious creative genius—culminating in an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of Avatar, the movie that promises to utterly transform the way motion pictures are created and perceived. As decisive a break with the past as the transition from silents to talkies, Avatar pushes 3-D, live action, and photo-realistic CGI to a new level. It rips through the emotional barrier of the screen to transport the audience to a fabulous new virtual world. With cooperation from the often reclusive Cameron, author Rebecca Keegan has crafted a singularly revealing portrait of the director’s life and work. We meet the young truck driver who sees Star Wars and resolves to make his own space blockbuster—starting by building a futuristic cityscape with cardboard and X-Acto knives. We observe the neophyte director deciding over lunch with Arnold Schwarzenegger that the ex–body builder turned actor is wrong in every way for the Terminator role as written, but perfect regardless. After the success of The Terminator, Cameron refines his special-effects wizardry with a big-time Hollywood budget in the creation of the relentlessly exciting Aliens. He builds an immense underwater set for The Abyss in the massive containment vessel of an abandoned nuclear power plant—where he pushes his scuba-equipped cast to and sometimes past their physical and emotional breaking points (including a white rat that Cameron saved from drowning by performing CPR). And on the set |
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The Making of Star Wars $85 From the Publisher After the 1973 success of American Graffiti, filmmaker George Lucas made the fateful decision to pursue a longtime dream project: a space fantasy movie unlike any ever produced. Lucas envisioned a swashbuckling SF saga inspired by the Flash Gordon serials classic American westerns, the epic cinema of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa, and mythological heroes. Its original title: The Star Wars. The rest is history, and how it was made is a story as entertaining and exciting as the movie that has enthralled millions for thirty years a story that has never been told as it was meant to be. Until now. Using his unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives and its trove of never-before-published lost interviews, photos, production notes, factoids, and anecdotes, Star Wars scholar J. W. Rinzler hurtles readers back in time for a one-of-a-kind behind-the-scenes look at the nearly decade-long quest of George Lucas and his key collaborators to make the little movie that became a phenomenon. For the first time, it s all here: *the evolution of the now-classic story and characters including Annikin Starkiller and a huge green-skinned monster with no nose and large gills named Han Solo *excerpts from George Lucas s numerous, ever-morphing script drafts *the birth of Industrial Light & Magic, the special-effects company that revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking *the studio-hopping and budget battles that nearly scuttled the entire project *the director s early casting saga, which might have led to a film spoken mostly in Japanese including the intensive auditions that won the cast members their roles and made them legends *the grueling, nearly catastrophic location shoot in Tunisia and the subsequent breakneck dash at Elstree Studios in London *the who s who of young film rebels who pitched in to help including Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, and Brian DePalma But perhaps m |
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The Polish Brothers’ Declaration of Independent Filmmaking: An Insider’s Guide to Making Movies Outside of Hollywood $15 Less than a decade since they began working in the movies, Mark and Michael Polish have established themselves as critically acclaimed, award-winning independent filmmakers. Their innovative approach to art direction, use of digital photography, and ability to attract stellar talent to their modestly budgeted films sprang from necessity; now these aesthetics have become admired trademarks of their work. Infused with this same balance of artistic integrity and popular appeal, The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking is a practical guide to writing, shooting, editing, scoring, promoting, and distributing short and feature films. Mark and Michael have packed this book with star-studded, often hilarious tales from their own experiences–as well as helpful insider photos. This is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in filmmaking, whether a high school student with a $500 budget or a serious filmmaker looking for a fresh approach. A Harvest Original |
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Ulmer E-Edgar G Ulmer-Man Off-Screen $12.22 A well wrought investigation of the often mysterious life of Edgar G. Ulmer, (Village Voice) that ambitiously blends film clips, interviews, audio tapes and vintage music cues into a fascinating documentary, Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen is a nice homage (New York Times) to the filmmaking genius behind The Black Cat, Detour, and The Man From Planet X. Featuring testimonials from Roger Corman, John Landis, Joe Dante, Wim Wenders, and Detour’s ultimate femme fatale Ann Savage, The Man Off-Screen paints a vividly impressionistic portrait of a no-budget auteur stylistically able to take a rat and make Thanksgiving dinner out of it. On his own and in collaboration with movie-legends F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang and Billy Wilder, from Berlin’s legendary UFA Studios to poverty-row purgatory in Hollywood (where he was blackballed for stealing a studio exec’s daughter-in-law), Ulmer created a unique and heady blend of old world culture and twentieth century pulp pizzazz.As a bonus, Kino pairs The Man Off-Screen with Isle of Forgotten Sins (aka Monsoon), a characteristically lurid Ulmer-helmed 1943 South Seas island adventure that pits John Carradine (The Grapes of Wrath) and Gale Sondergaard against Sidney Charlie Chan Toler in a deadly hunt for deep sea gold. |
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Warrior’s End $44.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Warrior’s End is a 2009 medieval epic film written and directed by Bjorn Anderson and filmed in Washington State.While on tour of the northwestern border, the prince of Midea and his companions discover invading armies from neighboring Kilea. Unable to summon reinforcements in time, the young prince must make a stand to protect his people.Director Bjorn Anderson decided on his 26th birthday to quit his job and pursue his dream of filmmaking. Instead of paying to go to film school, he began work on his first film, Warrior’s End. The production utilized the help of the Seattle Knights for many of the expansive sword battle scenes. The cast and crew worked on a volunteer basis which allowed the film to achieve its epic look on a limited budget. |
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Wild Beyond Belief!: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s $39.95 Exploitation filmmakers played a significant role in revolutionizing American cinema during the 1960s and early 1970s, churning out a string of independent Westerns, biker films, nudie-cuties and horror flicks in record times and often on shoestring budgets. With titles like Horror of the Blood Monsters, Cycle Savages and The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, these films pushed the boundaries of acceptable on-screen violence and nudity and kept the American theater industry afloat as several major studios teetered on the brink of financial collapse. This work tells the story of that “other” Hollywood through interviews with 16 directors, performers, screenwriters, and stuntmen who helped bring these zero-budget films to the screen against incredible odds. The interviews give insights into exploitation filmmaking from the perspectives of pioneering directors Al Adamson and Jack Hill, actors Jenifer Bishop and Robert Dix, and stuntmen Gary Kent and Gary Littlejohn, and others. The work includes more than 50 photographs, including many rare behind-the-scenes images of the filmmakers on set. |
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