The Indie Producers Handbook

The Indie Producers Handbook
Author: Myrl A. Schreibman
Publsiher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012-02-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780770433512

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Myrl Schreibman has written a comprehensive and practical, step-by-step guide for organizing and running a film from pre-production through post-production and delivery. This invaluable resource provides fundamental tools to produce a more thorough, more organized, and more professional film production. Packed with engaging and useful anecdotes, Schreibman provides a superlative introduction and overview to all of the key elements in producing for film and television. Useful to film students and filmmakers as a theoretical and practical guide to understanding the filmmaking process, Schreibman fills his manuscript with practical examples from his considerable personal experience in the film industry. Loaded with insider tips to help filmmakers avoid the pitfalls of show business.

The Producer s Business Handbook

The Producer s Business Handbook
Author: John J. Lee, Jr.,Rob Holt
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781136050497

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The Producer's Business Handbook provides a model for making a successful business of independent filmmaking. It will give you a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and supply you with the information and tools you'll need to successfully engage all related aspects of global production and exploitation. The handbook also provides a global orientation to the relationships that the most successful producers have with the various participants in the motion picture industry. This includes how producers direct their relationships with domestic and foreign studios, agencies, attorneys, talent, completion guarantors, banks, and private investors. It provides a thorough orientation to operating production development and single purpose production companies, from solicitation of literary properties through direct rights sales, and the management of global distribution relationships. Also presented is an in-depth discussion of the team roles needed to operate these companies, as well as how to attach and direct them. For those outside of the US, this book also includes information about how to produce successful films without government funding. This edition has been updated to include comprehensive information on the internal greenlighting process, government financing, and determining actual cost-of-money. It includes new simplified project evaluation tools, expediting funding and distribution. Together with its companion CD-ROM, which contains valuable forms and spreadsheets; tutorials; and samples, this handbook presents both instruction and worksheet support to independent producers at all levels of experience.

The Independent Film Producers Survival Guide A Business and Legal Sourcebook

The Independent Film Producers Survival Guide  A Business and Legal Sourcebook
Author: Gunnar Erickson,Harris Tulchin,Mark Halloran
Publsiher: Schirmer Trade Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780857124982

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In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie.

The Complete Film Production Handbook

The Complete Film Production Handbook
Author: Eve Light Honthaner
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2013-09-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781136053054

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This book is for working film/TV professionals and students alike. If you're a line producer, production manager, production supervisor, assistant director or production coordinator--the book has everything you'll need (including all the forms, contracts, releases and checklists) to set up and run a production--from finding a production office to turning over delivery elements. Even if you know what you're doing, you will be thrilled to find everything you need in one place. If you're not already working in film production, but think you'd like to be, read the book -- and then decide. If you choose to pursue this career path, you'll know what to expect, you'll be prepared, and you'll be ten steps ahead of everyone else just starting out. New topics and information in the fourth edition include: * Low-budget independent films, including documentaries and shorts * Information specific to television production and commercials * The industry's commitment to go green and how to do it * Coverage of new travel and shipping regulations * Updated information on scheduling, budgeting, deal memos, music clearances, communications, digital production, and new forms throughout

Producing for Hollywood

Producing for Hollywood
Author: Don Gold,Paul Mason
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2004-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781621531357

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Budding filmmakers, television producers, directors, writers, and students get a crash course on the independent production scene in this riveting account of the business and its key players. Now revised to reflect the latest production trends in the entertainment industry, this book is packed with never-before-revealed secrets about the challenging and exciting role producers play in bringing a film or television pilot to the screen, told by two veteran, award-winning producers. Readers will learn what skills and traits they need to succeed as the mastermind behind an independent production, including insider tips on how to assemble and manage a talented ensemble of writers, directors, actors, and crew-members. The book also includes up-to-date contact information for film festivals and foreign distributors, as well as sample budgets, film partnership proposals, and other forms. Aspiring film and television artists will find the practical understanding and insight vital to success.

Indie Film Producing

Indie Film Producing
Author: Suzanne Lyons
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780240817637

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Provides step-by-step guidance on how to produce an independent film.

The Music Producer s Handbook

The Music Producer s Handbook
Author: Bobby Owsinski
Publsiher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2010
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1423474007

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Music Producer's Handbook is a Hal Leonard publication.

Independent Producers Guide to Film and TV Contracts

Independent Producers  Guide to Film and TV Contracts
Author: Philip Alberstat
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2000
Genre: Contracts
ISBN: UCSC:32106018565637

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A reference tool on the legal issues associated with film and television production. It contains examples of typical legal agreements which independent producers, writers and others involved in the film and TV industry are faced with during the course of setting up a film or TV production.