Filmmaking: Direct Your Movie from Script to Screen Using Proven Hollywood Techniques - Softcover

Tomaric, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240817001 ISBN 13: 9780240817002

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

* Complete coverage of the entire filmmaking process. It's all here, from writing, directing, and cinematography, to acting, editing, and distribution.

* Step-by-step instructions, tips, diagrams, charts, and illustrations for how you can make a Hollywood-caliber movie on a next-to-nothing budget with little upfront money and access only to local resources.

The DVD includes:

* Time and Again, the profitable, award-winning, internationally distributed independent film made for under $2,000

* One hour of video tutorials unveiling how the movie was made...interviews and behind-the-scenes case studies on directing, producing, and editing

* Complete rough footage from a scene from "Time and Again" for editing practice

* Production Forms and legal contracts that you can print out to use on your own film

* Also includes, direct-from-the-set: scripts, storyboards, schedules, call sheets, contracts, letters from the producer, camera logs and press kits from "Time and Again." See how the production was scheduled and organized, read the script, follow the storyboards and watch the production unfold from beginning to end.

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. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0240817001
• ISBN 13: 9780240817002
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 532