Independent Feature Film Production

One of the clearest, most comprehensive books on feature filmmaking, Independent Feature Film Production is an invaluable resource for anyone undertaking the task of making their first feature film and a great way for the more experienced types to brush-up on the nuts and bolts of the process.

From Reel to Deal: Everything You Need to Create a Successful Independent Film

Based on his acclaimed 2-Day Film School^TM, Dov S-S Simens serves up a flawless and detailed blueprint for creating successful independent films. With his signature in-your-face, no-holds-barred advice, the Godfather of Independent Film teaches readers everything they need to know to create full-length feature films. 

Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age

Written by filmmakers for filmmakers, this essential text now includes the latest information on digital-age filmmaking, where the shifting boundaries between film, video, and computer systems have introduced a wide range of methods and equipment every filmmaker must master to be competitive. This comprehensive reference guide addresses the techniques necessary to make feature, documentary, industrial, and experimental films while detailing the possibilities and limitations of various formats. New chapters spotlight video camera and video editing, essential information for modern film students and makers who focus on video production exclusively. The Filmmaker's Handbook is the perfect primer to guide novices and professionals alike into the twenty-first century of motion picture production.

Entertainment Law and Business

A handy resource for both the experienced and novice practitioner, this text provides a broad survey of the entire industry and creative rights laws. It includes incisive summaries of all of the important areas of creative rights law: copyrights, the protection of ideas, trademark, publicity and privacy, and the major international treaties.

Filmmakers and Financing: Business Plans for Independents

The first, most crucial step in making a film is finding the funds to do it. This unique guide teaches you not only how to create a business plan, but also how to avoid common business plan mistakes so that you can attract and secure an investor. In jargon-free terms, the author takes you through the process step-by-step with each chapter focused on a different section of the business plan, including the industry, marketing, financing, and distribution. 

Feature Filmmaking at Used Car Prices

Rick Schmidt's Feature Filmmaking at Used Car Prices is a very important book for any new filmmaker to read. He explains how to make a movie without spending a fortune. Cover to cover, Schmidt offers invaluable tools and tips on how to get the most bang for your buck.

Dealmaking for Film & Television

Dealmaking is the first "self-defense" book for anyone working in the film and television industry. Addressing a general, non-attorney readership, it is a fascinating, highly accessible guide to current entertainment law's peculiarities, "creative" practices, and practical applications.

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video

This how-to book provides you with beneficial information, even if you aren't looking to make professional films or videos. The book breaks down the entire process. The authors have created an indispensable tool for any producer, regardless of experience level.

Cinematography:  Image Making for Cinematographers, Directors, and Videographers

Lavishly produced and illustrated, Cinematography covers the entire range of the profession. The book is not just a comprehensive guide to current professional practice; it goes beyond to explain the theory behind the practice, so filmmakers understand how the rules came about and when it's appropriate to break them. Covering the most up-to-date information on the film/digital interface, new formats, the latest cranes and camera support and other equipment, it also illustrates the older tried and true methods.

Cinematography

Since its initial publication in 1973, Cinematography has become the standard guidebook on filmmaking techniques that emphasize the cameraman's craft. Now completely revised and updated, it clearly and concisely covers what today's filmmaker needs to know about camera structure and operation, lenses, film stocks, filters, lighting and light measuring, and accessory equipment. In addition it provides up-to-date information on sound recording, editing, video transfer, studio and location shooting, production logistics, and modern techniques of picture manipulation with optical printers—a subject rarely treated in such detail in existing film books.

In the Blink of an Eye

Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and reality; criteria for a good cut; the blink of the eye as an emotional cue; digital editing; and much more.

Painting with Light

First published in 1949 and long out of print since then, Painting With Light remains one of the few truly canonical statements on the art of motion picture photography and an unrivalled historical document on the workings of  postwar American cinema. In simple, non-technical language, Alton explains the job of the cinematographer and explores how lighting, camera techniques, and choice of locations determine the visual mood of film.

The Ultimate Film Festival Survivor Guide

Chris Gore provides this survival guide to help the aspiring auteur rise above the tide in a booming industry.  Chock-full of down-and-dirty advice, the book covers every aspect of film festivals, from an extensive list of festivals and entry deadlines to what to wear to industry parties and handy tips from directors who can speak from experience.

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