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Now updated--the step-by-step secrets to capturing great moments on film

With all the recent advancements in filmmaking technology, more people than ever are trying their hand at filmmaking. Keeping up with the newest information in this booming field, this updated edition of Filmmaking For Dummies features up-to-the-minute coverage of the latest and greatest hardware, software, accessories, and trends--including high-definition technology and new outlets for films such as YouTube and MySpace. It demystifies the nuts-and-bolts of filmmaking, from developing a project and securing financing to hiring a cast and crew, editing, and getting distribution. This new edition also provides new movie examples and updated contacts and resources. Whether people want to become professional filmmakers or simply shoot quality home movies, this practical guide has all the advice and tips needed to succeed.

Foreword xxiii
Introduction 1(1)
About This Book 1(1)
Conventions Used in This Book 2(1)
What You're Not to Read 3(1)
Foolish Assumptions 3(1)
How This Book Is Organized 4(1)
Part I: Filmmaking and Storytelling 4(1)
Part II: Gearing Up to Make Your Film 4(1)
Part III: Ready to Roll: Starting Production on Your Film 4(1)
Part IV: Finishing Your Film in Post 5(1)
Part V: Finding a Distributor for Your Film 5(1)
Part VI: The Part of Tens 5(1)
Icons Used in This Book 6(1)
Where to Go from Here 6(1)
Part I: Filmmaking and Storytelling
7(40)
So You Want to Be a Filmmaker
9(10)
Independents Day versus the Hollywood Way
9(1)
Filmmaking: Traditional or Digital?
10(2)
Traditional: Super-8, 16mm, or 35mm
11(1)
Going digital: Standard or high-def
11(1)
Developing Your Sense of Story
12(1)
Financing Your Film: Where's the Money?
12(1)
On a Budget: Scheduling Your Shoot
13(1)
Planning Your Shoot, Shooting Your Plan
13(2)
Hiring Your Cast and Crewing Up
15(1)
Shooting in the Right Direction
15(2)
Seeing the light
15(1)
Being heard and scene
16(1)
Actors taking your direction
16(1)
Directing through the camera
16(1)
Cut It Out! Editing Your Film
17(1)
Listening to your film
17(1)
Simulating film with software
17(1)
Distributing Your Film and Finding an Audience
18(1)
Genres in General
19(14)
Exploring Film Genres
19(9)
Making 'em laugh with comedy
20(1)
Getting dramatic about it
21(1)
Horrifying horror films
22(1)
Romancing the romantic
23(1)
Getting physical: No talk and all action
23(1)
Separating fact from (science) fiction
24(1)
Indulging your fantasy
24(1)
Go West, young man: Westerns
25(1)
Going to war
25(1)
Thrilling audiences with suspense
26(1)
Stealing the audience's attention: Crime pays
26(1)
Making music with musicals
27(1)
Kidding around: Family friendly films
27(1)
Categorizing Your Genres
28(5)
Featuring films
28(2)
Made-for-TV movie
30(1)
Documenting documentaries
30(1)
Shooting short films: Keep it brief!
31(1)
Directing television programs
31(1)
Directing commercials
32(1)
Minding your PSAs: Public service announcements
32(1)
Feel like dancing? Music videos
32(1)
Industrials: Industrial strength
32(1)
Penning and Pitching a Great Story
33(14)
Screening for the Perfect Screenplay
33(3)
The ''write'' way to find a writer
34(1)
Adapting: A novel idea
34(2)
Writing Your Own Original Screenplay
36(8)
Structuring your screenplay
36(2)
Creating conflict
38(1)
Developing characters
39(1)
Drafting your screenplay: Scene by scene
39(3)
Collaborating with writer's software
42(1)
Formatting your screenplay
43(1)
Selling Your Screenplay to a Production Studio, Distributor, or Investor
44(3)
Getting your foot (and screenplay) in the door
44(1)
Pitching a home run
45(2)
Part II: Gearing Up to Make Your Film
47(98)
Scheduling and Budgeting Your Film
49(20)
The Art of Scheduling a Film
50(9)
Lining your script
51(1)
Breaking into breakdown sheets
52(2)
Creating production strips
54(2)
Stripping down your schedule
56(1)
Scheduling software to make your life easier
57(2)
Balancing Your Film Budget
59(6)
Tightrope walking above the line
59(2)
Hanging below the line
61(2)
Topping your budget
63(1)
Budgeting for budget software
63(2)
Factoring in a contingency amount
65(1)
Insurance Is Your Best Policy
65(4)
Finding an insurance broker
67(1)
Bond, completion bond
68(1)
Financing Your Film
69(14)
Creating an Enticing Prospectus
69(2)
Synopsis of your film
70(1)
Information about you
70(1)
Info about your cast and crew
71(1)
Your budget and profit projections
71(1)
Investigating Investors
71(4)
Locating potential investors: Show me the money!
72(1)
Approaching a potential investor
73(1)
Keeping the Securities and Exchange Commission in mind
74(1)
Starting a Film Company
75(3)
Being in the right company
75(3)
Other things to do to set up your company
78(1)
Going Escrow
78(1)
Contracting Your Investor
79(1)
Tapping into Alternative Sources
80(3)
Pre-selling your film
80(1)
Getting a grant
81(1)
Getting a loan
81(1)
Bartering: Trade you this for that
81(2)
Location, Location, Location
83(14)
Locating Locations
83(3)
Managing location scouts and managers
84(1)
Evaluating potential locations
85(1)
Taking a picture: Say ''cheese'' and ''thank you''
86(1)
Sounding Off about Soundstages
86(3)
Finding --- or creating --- a sound stage
87(1)
Putting up walls: Using flats
87(2)
Shooting in the United States or Crossing the Border?
89(2)
Researching U.S. government incentives
90(1)
Traveling to Canada
90(1)
Locating Stock Footage
91(1)
Virtual Locations: Creating New Worlds on a Computer
92(1)
Securing Your Locations
93(2)
Acquiring permits
94(1)
Ensuring you're insured
94(1)
Mapping out your locations
94(1)
Policing your locations
95(1)
Fire!
95(1)
Shooting Second-Unit Locations
95(2)
Crewing Up: Hiring Your Crew
97(18)
Something to Crew About
97(13)
Producing the producer
98(1)
Directing the direction
99(1)
Stepping over the line producer
100(1)
Uniting with a production manager
101(1)
Supervising the script
101(1)
Directing photography with a cinematographer
102(2)
Going with your gaffer
104(1)
Getting a grip
105(1)
Sounding like your sound mixer
105(1)
Booming the sound
105(1)
Propping up the prop master
106(1)
Dressing up the wardrobe department
106(1)
Making up is hard to do
107(1)
Gopher this, gopher that
107(1)
Keeping your composer
107(1)
Editing: Cut that out!
108(1)
And the rest
109(1)
Finding and Interviewing Your Crew
110(1)
Creative Ways to Pay Your Crew
111(2)
Paying later: Deferments or points
111(1)
Giving 'em credit
111(1)
Hiring student bodies
112(1)
Paying a kit fee
112(1)
Hiring crew as independent contractors
112(1)
Union or non-union --- that's the question
113(1)
Putting a Contract Out on Your Crew
113(2)
Assembling Your Cast of Characters
115(14)
Hooking Your Cast and Reeling Them In
115(4)
Calling all agents
116(1)
Casting through casting directors
116(1)
Placing casting ads
117(1)
Calling casting services
118(1)
Accessing actor directories
118(1)
Screening an Actor's Information
119(3)
Headshots and resumes
119(2)
Taping their act
121(1)
Spinning an actor's Web site
121(1)
Auditioning Your Potential Cast
122(2)
Creating a friendly environment
122(1)
Inspecting an actor's etiquette
122(1)
Slating on video
123(1)
Avoiding bitter-cold readings
123(1)
Monologues leave you all by yourself
124(1)
Making the Cut: Picking Your Cast
124(2)
Calling back
124(1)
Screen testing
125(1)
And the winners are
125(1)
Agreeing with Actors' Agreements
126(3)
Contracting union players
126(1)
Contracting non-union players
126(2)
Securing releases from extras
128(1)
Storyboarding Your Film
129(16)
Understanding the Basics and Benefits of Storyboarding
129(2)
Setting Up to Storyboard
131(3)
Breaking down your script
131(1)
Evaluating each shot
132(1)
Organizing a shot list
132(1)
Framing storyboard panels
133(1)
Deciding What to Include in Each Panel: Putting Pencil to Paper
134(4)
Choosing the right angles
134(1)
Imagining camera and actor movement
135(1)
Boarding your special effects
136(1)
Sketching out the actors, props, and vehicles
137(1)
Looking at lighting and location
137(1)
I Can't Draw, Even If My Life Depended on It
138(7)
Designing with storyboard software
138(2)
Drawing the help of a professional artist
140(5)
Part III: Ready to Roll: Starting Production on Your Film
145(86)
Shooting through the Looking Glass
147(20)
Choosing the Right Camera
147(8)
Rolling with film cameras
148(2)
Recording with digital camcorders
150(5)
Do You Need Glasses? Types of Lenses and What They Do
155(12)
The normal lens
156(11)
Let There Be Lighting!
167(16)
Lighting Up Your Life
167(1)
Shedding Some Light on Lighting Jargon
168(15)
Big Foot-candles: Lighting for film cameras
168(1)
Lux (and cream cheese): Lighting for digital (SD and HD)
168(1)
Taking your color temperature
169(1)
Illuminating with soft light versus hard light
170(13)
Sound Advice: Production Sound
183(14)
Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3
183(1)
Assembling a Sound Team
184(2)
Mixing it up with your mixer
184(1)
Making room for the boom operator
185(1)
Choosing Analog or Digital Sound
186(2)
Analog: The sound of Nagra Falls
186(1)
DAT recorders and dat's not all
187(1)
In the field with digital recorders
187(1)
Recording with Microphones
188(4)
Shooting with shotgun microphones
189(2)
Omni-directional mics
191(1)
Lapel microphones
191(1)
Wireless microphones
191(1)
Using Your Headphones
192(1)
Walking and Talking: Walkie-Talkies on Set
192(1)
Listening for Quiet
193(1)
Shushing the camera: Barney hears you
193(1)
Silencing footsteps with sound blankets and foot foam
193(1)
Getting Up to Speed Safe and Sound
194(1)
Slating with the clapper board
194(1)
Syncing picture and sound with timecode
195(1)
Capturing On-Set Ambience
195(1)
Reporting Your Sound
196(1)
Directing Your Actors: ... And Action!
197(14)
Getting Your Actors Familiar with the Material --- and Each Other
197(2)
Remembering that familiarity breeds content
198(1)
Reading through the script: The table read
199(1)
Adjusting dialogue to make it read naturally
199(1)
Being a Parent and Mentor to Your Actors --- with No Allowance
199(1)
Preparing Your Actors before the Shoot
200(6)
Rehearsals, yea or nay?
201(1)
Rehearsing the characters, not just the lines
202(1)
Discovering the characters' backstories
203(1)
Reading between the lines: Subtext
204(1)
Exercising and warming up your actors
204(1)
Acting is reacting
205(1)
Speaking with body language
206(1)
Directing Actors during the Shoot
206(5)
Encouraging your actors to ask questions --- but not too many
206(1)
Reminding your actors that less is more --- more or less
207(1)
Feeling the words, not just memorizing
208(1)
Blocking, walking, and talking
208(1)
Taking care of business
209(1)
Matching actors' actions
209(1)
Commending the actors
210(1)
A Sense of Direction: Directing Your Film
211(20)
Focusing on Directing
211(3)
Directing traits
212(1)
Training yourself as a director
213(1)
Translating Script to Screen
214(2)
Understanding the screenplay
215(1)
Rewriting or adjusting the script
216(1)
Visualizing your screenplay
216(1)
Mapping Out Your Plans for the Camera
216(3)
Designing storyboards
217(1)
Creating a shot list
217(1)
Sketching schematics
217(1)
Making notes on the script
218(1)
Planning with models (not the high-fashion kind)
219(1)
Continuing Continuity with Your Script Supervisor
219(3)
Got a match?
219(1)
Inserting coverage and cutaways
220(1)
Screen direction: Your other left
221(1)
Taking Your Best Shot
222(6)
Where the heck are we? Establishing a wide shot
223(1)
You don't have to be a psychic to get a medium shot
224(1)
Two shot: Three's a crowd
224(2)
I'm ready for my close-up
226(2)
Picture This: Deciding When to Move the Camera and Why
228(3)
Playing with dollies
228(1)
Craning to get a high shot
229(1)
Steadying the camera
229(2)
Part IV: Finishing Your Film in Post
231(62)
Cut to: Editing Your Film Frame by Frame
233(18)
Editing Your Film: Putting One Frame in Front of the Other
233(5)
Choosing an editor: Who cut this?
234(1)
Shooting enough coverage
235(1)
Assembling a first cut
236(1)
Building a director's cut
236(1)
Photo finish: Finalizing a final cut
237(1)
Listening to the sound editor
237(1)
Linear versus Non-Linear Editing
238(2)
Editing in linear
238(1)
Editing in non-linear
239(1)
Editing on Your Computer
240(5)
Hard driving
240(1)
Cutting it with editing software
241(3)
Posting your production in your computer
244(1)
Outputting formats
244(1)
Developing a Relationship with Your Film Lab
245(3)
Developing negatives, producing prints, and more
246(1)
Being positive about a negative cutter
246(1)
Color-correcting your film: As plain as black and white
247(1)
Answering your first film print
248(1)
Cloning, Not Copying; Cloning, Not Copying
248(3)
Posting Your Film's Soundtrack: Adding Music & Effects to the Mix
251(14)
Finishing Sound in Postproduction
251(4)
Stirring up the mixer's toolbox
252(1)
Mixing the right balance
253(1)
Looping the loop
254(1)
Creating Sound Effects with a Bang
255(3)
Listening to sound-effects libraries
255(1)
Creating and recording your own sound effects
256(1)
Getting to know Jack Foley
257(1)
Adding room tone: Ambience or background sounds
258(1)
Scoring Big with Music
258(5)
Conducting a composer to set the mood
258(1)
Composing your own music
259(1)
The sound of music libraries
260(1)
Playing with original songs
261(1)
Orchestrating the rights to popular music
262(1)
Cueing up cue sheets
262(1)
Singing songs in the public domain
263(1)
Outputting Your Final Mix
263(2)
Surrounding sound
264(1)
Separating music and effects tracks for foreign release
264(1)
Conjuring Up Special Effects
265(20)
Creating Effects: In or Out of Camera?
265(2)
Dropping in Backgrounds
267(5)
Turning blue and green
267(1)
Dishing out special-effects plates
268(1)
Painting scenery into your shots: Matte paintings
269(1)
Have you seen scenic backdrops?
269(1)
Clipping your magazines
270(1)
Weathering the storm
271(1)
Downsizing Miniatures
272(3)
Looking down on miniatures
272(1)
Forcing the perspective, forcefully
273(1)
Climbing the walls
273(2)
Creating Effects Right in the Camera
275(3)
Backward about reverse photography
275(1)
Double exposure, double exposure
276(1)
Speeding slowly
276(1)
Creating effects with lenses and filters
277(1)
Exploding Effects on Fire
278(1)
Making Up Your Mind about Make-Up Effects
279(6)
Applying prosthetics
279(1)
Here's looking at scleral lenses
280(1)
Take a bite out of this
281(4)
Giving Credit and Titles
285(8)
Titling Your Film
285(1)
Writing a Running List of Names and Positions
286(1)
Spelling it write
286(1)
Entitled to a credit
287(1)
Designing Your Titles and Credits
287(3)
Designing the style with fonts
288(1)
Animating your main title and credits
288(1)
Digital or optical credits
289(1)
Crediting without a computer
289(1)
Rolling Your Title and Credits
290(3)
Timing the opening and ending credits
290(1)
Ordering your title and credits
291(1)
Ensuring the safety of your credits
292(1)
Covering Your Eyes: Stripping Titles for Foreign Textless
293(1)
Part V: Finding a Distributor for Your Film
293(32)
Distributing Your Film
297(20)
Understanding How Distribution Works
297(2)
Presenting Your Film to Distributors
299(3)
Posting a poster of your film
299(1)
Picturing the set photographer
300(1)
Pulling your audience in with a trailer
300(1)
Premiering your film
301(1)
Distributing Your Film Domestically
302(3)
Minding media rights
303(1)
Anticipating ancillary rights
304(1)
Meeting domestic buyers at the Home Media Expo
305(1)
Distributing Your Film around the World
305(12)
Selling your film at the super markets
306(1)
Negotiating: How much for your film?
307(1)
Speaking their language
308(9)
Exploring and Entering Film Festivals
317(8)
Demystifying Film Festivals
317(3)
Judging the difference between a film festival and a film market
318(1)
Screening the benefits of entering film festivals
319(1)
Entering and Winning Secrets
320(1)
Submitting a work-in-progress --- Don't!
320(1)
Entering the right festivals for your film
320(3)
Choosing the appropriate genre and category
323(1)
Writing a great synopsis of your film
324(1)
Picture perfect: Selecting the best photos from your film
324(1)
Sending the best format
325(1)
Entering without a box
325(1)
Getting an entry-fee discount
326
Part VI: The Part of Tens
325(18)
Ten Tips for Discovering New Talent
329(4)
Viewing Independent Films
329(1)
Watching Local Theater
330(1)
Attending Actors' Showcases
330(1)
Visiting Acting Schools
330(1)
Talking to Agents and Managers
331(1)
Searching the Academy Players Directory
331(1)
Schmoozing at Film Festivals and Markets
331(1)
Walking Down the Street
332(1)
Holding Talent Contests
332(1)
Starring Your Family
332(1)
Ten Ways to Get Publicity for Your Film
333(4)
Submitting a Press Release
333(1)
Doing a TV or Radio Interview
334(1)
Getting a Review from Movie Critics
334(1)
Mailing Out DVD Screeners
334(1)
Attending Film Festivals
334(1)
Emailing and Setting Up a Web Site
335(1)
Designing T-Shirts and Other Premiums
335(1)
Planning a Publicity Stunt
335(1)
Organizing a Screening Party or Charity Event
336(1)
Placing an Ad
336(1)
Ten Ways to Avoid Murphy's Law
337(4)
Testing the Camera
337(1)
Scouting Locations for Noise
338(1)
Watching the Weather Channel
338(1)
Backing Up Locations and Actors
338(1)
Using a Stunt Double
339(1)
Standing by with First-Aid Kit or Medic on Set
339(1)
Anticipating that Cellphones and Internet Don't Work Everywhere
339(1)
Mapping Out Directions
339(1)
Providing Plenty of Parking
340(1)
Securing Security Overnight
340(1)
Powering Up Ahead of Time
340(1)
Ten Best Filmmaking Periodicals
341(2)
The Hollywood Reporter
341(1)
Daily Variety
342(1)
Backstage
342(1)
Videomaker
342(1)
Entertainment Weekly
342(1)
People Magazine
343(1)
American Cinematographer
343(1)
DV Magazine
343(1)
MovieMaker Magazine
344(1)
StudentFilmmakers Magazine
344
Index 343
Bryan Michael Stoller is an international-award-winning filmmaker who has produced, written, and directed over 80 productions, including short comedy films, half-hour television shows, music videos, commercials, and feature films. He has worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including actors and studio presidents.