Feature filmmaking at used-car prices: how to write, produce, direct, shoot, edit, and promote a feature-length movie for less than $ 15,000
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A Preamble for the
2000
Edition
ix
Foreword: How (and How Not) to Do It: An Open Letter to the
Next Generation of American Filmmakers, by Ray Carney
XXI
Preface
xxxv
Acknowledgments
xlvii
Introduction to Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking
і
1.
Story Concept
7
Where Do Ideas Come From?
8
Selecting the Right Concept
11
Eleven Essential Qualities of a No-Budget Movie
12
Writing Your Concept in One Sentence
14
Expanding Your Idea into a One-Page Treatment
16
Improving a Treatment Through Detailed Characterization
19
Registering Your Treatment
24
2.
Scriptwriting for No-Budget Features
26
Writing Scenes on Index Cards
29
1
Expanding Cards into Scripted Scenes
30
Scripting by Collaboration
33
Scripting with Software
36
Finalizing Your Script
41
The Shooting Script
43
Contents
3.
Beginning
45
Defining Your Production Limitations
46
Profit Sharing
48
Deferred Payment
49
The Contract
50
Contract Checklist
51
Budget
53
Filming Costs
53
16-mm Shooting Budget (Film Edit)
54
Shooting Budget <for Computer Edit)
56
16-mm Shooting Budget (for Computer Edit)
56
Editing Costs
57
Editing Budget (16-mm)
58
Build an Editing Bench
59
List of Materials (Editing Bench)
62
Totat
Used-Car Budget (Film Edit)
63
Shooting/Editing Budget (16-mm)
64
16-mm Shooting/Editing Budget (Computer Cut)
66
Raising Money for Your Feature
67
Grants
70
Emergency Self-Funding
71
4.
Preproduction: Preparing to Shoot
73
People
75
Casting the Crew
76
Casting Real Actors
77
Casting Nonactors
79
Places
80
Storyboarding
82
Long-Distance
Locations
83
Things
84
Camera Equipment
85
Which Lenses?
87
Sound Gear
88
Lighting Kits
91
Examples of Lighting on Rick Schmidt Features
92
Contents
Selecting Your Lighting
93
Hollywood Lighting
94
Lighting for Low Budgets
96
Natural Lighting with ASA
800 Filmstock 96
Soft Lights
97
Saving Money on
Filmstock
and Sound Track
98
Renting Equipment
99
Support Equipment
100
Equipment Checklist
101
Paperwork/Errands/Lists
103
Preproduction Checklist
104
5.
Production: Filming and Directing
106
Fifteen Rules for Shooting No-Budget Features
107
Picking Up Rental Equipment
109
Morning of the Shoot no
Loading Equipment, Picking Up Actors and Crew no
Organization on Location
113
Loading the Camera
114
Focusing the Eyepiece
115
Shooting Wide-Screen
16:9 115
Camera Maintenance
116
Placing the Camera for Your First Shot
117
Tips for Lighting on Location
118
Using a Light Meter
120
What to Shoot? How to Shoot?
121
Supporting Your Story with Images
122
The Long Take
124
Freeze Method of Shooting for Cuts
124
Cutaways and Pauses for Transitions
125
Shooting Without Sound
126
High-Budget Effects
127
Directing Actors on Location
128
Directing from Behind the Camera
130
Feeding Cast and Crew on a Budget
131
Continuity
132
Contenis
Shooting Titles on Location
133
Location Miracles
134
Saving Film on Each Sync Take
135
Benefits of a Tight Shooting Schedule
136
Movie Stills/Videos of Work-in-Progress
137
Developing and Work Printing at the Lab
138
Processing Without a Work Print
140
Video Versus Film Work Print
141
Money and the Lab
141
Checking Your First Footage
142
Checking Your Recorded Sync Sound
144
Screening Footage for Cast and Crew
146
Completing the Shoot
147
6.
Postproduction:
Editing Your Feature
149
Making the First Splice
150
Syncing It Up
156
Rick Schmidt s Secrets of Editing
158
Edge Numbering
161
Filing Your Outs
161
Viewing Your Footage as a Movie
162
Placing Scenes in Order of Your Story
163
Cutting for Structure
164
Testing Your Edit
166
Beginning a Rough Cut
167
Discarding Your Favorite Scene
168
Sound Effects and Music
169
The Breakthrough Cut
170
The Missing Pieces
171
Adding Narrations
172
Photos as Transitions
173
Shooting Additional Footage
174
Final Tightening and Pacing
175
Finalizing the Structure
176
Preparing Sound Rolls for the Mix
178
The Sound Mix
182
Contents
Screening Your Sound Mix
182
Conforming Original for Printing
183
AB
Rolling from a Work Print
184
AB
Rolling Without a Work Print
191
Cue Sheet for Printing
191
Lab Procedures for Printing
193
Screening Your Answer Print
195
Assembling Your Print
197
Screening Your Print for Cast and Crew
198
7.
promotion
199
Preparing Your Promotional Package
201
Video Copies for Promotion
201
Promotional Graphics
203
The
Pressbook 203
The Still
204
The Poster
205
Film Festivals
208
The New York Premiere
210
Promotion by Letters, E-Mail, and Phone
212
Indie
Fests
212
WWW Digital
Fests
217
American Showcases
219
Television Premiere
221
The Film Market
224
Distributors
226
Agents
231
Indie Cinemas
233
Other Forms of Distribution
234
Advertising for Alternative Distribution
235
Setting Prices
237
The Long Haul
237
8.
Reality Check
239
9. Feature Workshops 243
Rick s
Feature Workshops 244
10-Day Feature Workshop Budget (16-mm
with Avid Cut)
Collaborating in 35-mm
249
35-mm Collaborative Budget (5-Day
Shoot/2-Week
Edit)
DVCAM Movies by Collaboration
251
Ten-Way Collaborative Features
252
Collaborative Budget
255
Film School Budget (16-mm)
256
Ten Short Stories Versus Ten Segments
257
Quality Control Agreement
258
Writing/Directing en Masse
260
Auteur
Theory Debris
262
Editing by Segments/Cinematic Jazz
263
Consensus (or Not)/Final Cut
264
Promotion Power/Pulling Strings
265
1
О.
Shooting in Analog Video
268
Selecting the Right Video Format
269
Lighting for Video
271
Shooting and Directing in Video
272
Saving Costs on Video Editing
273
Promoting and SeiUng Your Video Feature
274
1 1.
Digital Video Workstations
275
DV
Websites
277
Dogme
95 279
The Vow of Chastity
279
DVCAM Cameras
283
Canon
283
Sony
284
Panasonic
286
DV
On-Location Sound
287
Portable Lights for
DV 288
Editing by Computer
289
νυϋ!
Т#-
.. .
Content
Щ
Workstation
Platform
and Setup
290
Becoming Computer Literate
291
$10,000
Digital Movie Studio
293
DV
Editing Software
294
Avid
295
Avid Cinema
297
Adobe Premiere
299
EditDV, MotoDV, PhotoDV, and RotoDV
301
Media
100 303
Sony ES-7 EditStation
305
Discreet
306
Play s Trinity
306
Apple s Final Cut Pro
307
The Casablanca (Nonlinear Editing Without Computer)
311
Website-Based Online Editing
314
Digital
Postproduction
316
The Digital Sound Mix
316
Digital Music for Movies
317
Digital Printing at the Lab
320
FilmLook: Video That Looks Like Film
321
Video-to-Film Transfers
323
Swiss Effects
324
Film Craft Lab
324
Four Media Company
326
1 2.
HDTV and the Future
329
HDTV
330
SDTV
332
3-D
Video and Camera s Perspective Software
333
Twenty-four-Frames-per-Second Video
335
PCMCIA Card Technology
336
Univisium
337
Wrap Up
338
Contents
Appendices
341
Appendix
A: Collaboration Agreement
341
Appendix B: Sample Contract for Deferred Payment and
Profit Sharing
342
Appendix C: Deal Memorandum
346
Appendix D: Sample Investment Agreement
348
Appendix E: Release
349
Appendix F: Location Agreement
350
Appendix G: Music Rights Agreement
352
Appendix H: California Limited Partnership Agreement
354
Appendix I: Purchase Offer (Limited Partnership)
386
Appendix
1:
Collaborative Agreement (Feature Workshops)
39*
Index
398
I read recently that Americans
are buying used cars for an average of
S
12,000,
and I thought. Why
dont
they take the bus to work
and make a feature film instead?
For the price
oí
a used ear-about
$12,000—
you can make a feature
film ii you have the right know-how. In Featuie Filmmaking at used-
Cai
Prices, award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt
provides that know-how. He shows you:
How to select and write a story that can be produced on a tight budget
How to rally a filmmaking team through creative contracts
How to shoot and edit with an original style
Where to find markets for your finished film
How to deal with agents
How to make a collaborative feature
This fully updated edition also contains extensive new material on:
Digital video
(DV)
technology and what it offers low-budget
and no-budget filmmakers
Making the most of the Internet as an information resource
With step-by-step instructions and summary checklists, and without
the complicated technical details that only add to the cost, Feature
Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices will support you spiritually, psycholop
ically, factually, and technically as you take the bus ana make your film.
Without Rick s book, Clerks would have been an idea that never made
it past this page. -kevin smith,
writer-director of Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Dogma
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