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An digital film making manual that feature many inspirational interviews with today's hardest working young indie film makers conducted during production of their latest films. Also included is basic advice on every aspect of film making from fund raising to lighting to selecting the right digital camera for the job. Featuring interviews with low budget film makers that are still producing their films as of spring 2014. This book is filled with in the trenches information with some of today's best indie film makers from all over the world. In a Dslr dominated low budget film making world where feature films are now being shot for less than ten thousand dollars this book is a great primer for the beginning independent film maker.
rodney cannon
Mr. Cannon is a well known blogger in the areas of screenwriting and low budget film making. He operates blogs on the subjects of iphone film making, digital film making, found footage and micro budget film making.
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On Low Budget Film Making,Digital Film Making Interviews - rodney cannon
On Low Budget Film Making
(Digital Film Making Interviews)
By
Rodney Cannon
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Table of Contents
Chapter One. Digital Filmmaking
Chapter Two. You Need A Screenplay
Chapter Three. The Sci Fi Film Production.
Chapter Four. Getting Started.
Chapter Five. Lighting.
Chapter Six. The Fan Film
Chapter Seven. Being a Producer
Chapter Eight. About Cameras
Chapter Nine. Throwback, Shooting with a Camcorder
Chapter Ten. The FX Debate
Chapter Eleven. The Practical FX Interview
Chapter Twelve. Raising Money
Chapter Thirteen. The You + Me Interview
Chapter Fourteen. The Horror Movie
Chapter Fifteen. A Stray Interview
Chapter Sixteen. Your Interview
Chapter One.
Digital Filmmaking
If you want to be a low budget film maker in this day and age then you are most likely going to be a digital film maker. Yes, film does still exist and people still shoot with it, but with the exception of super 8 most low budget film makers have abandoned the use of film.
Why have they left film behind.
Film cost a great deal of movie as compared to digital media. It cost more money to process. It cost still more money to have a final print done for theatrical releases. At each stage we are talking about thousands of dollars. A final 35mm print of a feature length motion picture could cost more them more than three thousand dollars and that is one print for each movie theater if movie theaters still used film prints. The truth is that most of them have gone fully digital. They now have digital projects that can have the final print of a major studio release downloaded directly to the projector itself as a file rather than having it shipped to the theater.
The economics of digital and the availability of the cameras have made all of us who wish to make low to micro budget films digital film makers.
Let us begin at the beginning.
What is a low budget film?
Years ago anything that was produced for less than three million dollars was considered low budget. Now that mark had come down to anything less than half a million dollars is considered low budget.
What is a micro budget film?
A micro budget film and this will apply to most if not all of you is a film that is shot for less than fifty thousand dollars. The truth is that many film makers are shooting quality films for less than ten thousand dollars.
In this book we will go over the basics of what you will need to craft such a film and there will be interviews that I have done with other low budget indie film makers.
Chapter Two.
You Need A Screenplay
Before you do anything else you well need to either write a screenplay or purchase the rights to one that has been written by someone else.
There is no getting around this if you want to make a quality film. Even if you had decided to make a Found Footage film you will need some kind of a screenplay.
How do you write a format a screenplay?
Since we are going to be working with a micro budget we are going to look at the free formatting options for your screenplay.
I believe that we should use software when writing a screenplay if at all possible. The formatting rules are not too complex, but the software makes the writing process almost automatic.
All of this software can be found online for free.
The first piece of free software is titled Celtx. The free version of this software has a great little screenplay formatter and for about ten dollars you can buy the complete software that includes all the basic forms that you will need for the production of your feature film.
Next you can use the amazing site named Scripped. At this site you can write and save your work. This protects you against computer crashes and you can assess your screenplay from any computer at any time to edit it or download it.
There is also a very simple and great stand alone bit of software named Roughdraft. You can download it by googling Roughdraft screen writing software. It bare bones basic and of all the free software options I like it the best because it does not have too many bells and whistles. You can write without any pop up prompts.
The next question is how do you write your screenplay.
I would suggest five pages day over the space of three weeks will give you a script slightly longer than one hundred pages. The golden rule is to think of a page of a basic screenplay as being equal to one minute of film time.
Here are some basic rules as to how to write your script.
We will begin with Character.
Your story will have a lead character and a main character. The lead is the person who has the most screen time. The main character is the one who drives the story. Think in terms of The Terminator. The lead character is Sarah Connor. The main character is the Terminator. The story does not work without the Terminator being a compelling character.
The antagonist.
This has to be the opposite of the lead character if possible. It can be a person and/or thing. Secondly the goal of the antagonist is usually totally opposite to that of the lead unless they want the same thing for different reasons.
The Plot never changes.
All characters want to come full circle. They want to go home again. They want to return their world to its state before everything went wrong.
Think of it this way. Everyone wants to go home again. Maybe not the home that they left, but their idea of home. Look at the movie Die Hard. This is a classic home plot. The lead who happens also to be the main character as well has traveled to L.A. to see his wife in homes of putting his family back together so that his idea of home can be reestablished. Terrorists get in the way. He must overcome them to get home again. If he loses his life or his wife then home can never be reestablished. These are the stakes in most screenplays from action to horror to drama.