Film Business: A handbook for producers
September 18, 2008 11:11 AM
FILM BUSINESS: (buy through Amazon!)
Rating: Essential to Producers. Good for directors who wake up to the fact they have to make their own careers by developing their own projects.
Film Business fills the gap between making movies for the fun of making movies and making movies your job. There are plenty of books on independent filmmaking and production. Some are technology specific (producing films on Super 8 film, DV, HDV, 16mm) and that allows the producer to sidestep known issues. Alas, it seems TOO MANY books are published by first timers who have more spunk than experience. It’s not to say their words aren’t valid. It’s just that it doesn’t really help explain the world at large. Quite like learning about sex from other dudes. The basic mechanics are there, but there’s so much misinterpretation and misinformation and outright ignorance presented as fact. The basic rule of life: one person’s interpretation of events may not correlate to another’s reality.
I’m at a point of making the leap to producing as my only option for getting by in life. Film Business helps with putting all these fragments from other books together. Given it’s publication date of 2006, the information is very current and addresses the changing landscape. Though things appear to change in the industry, it’s still making little movies with specific purposes: entertain, inform, advertise, instruct.
Perhaps other books will be more nuts and bolts for on-set production, this book delivers for the entrepreneurial individuals who want to produce more than one movie in their lifetime, at a rate greater than one per decade.
Rather than spin yarns about “call yourself a filmmaker if you’ve ever thought of film making!” this book starts with a spot-on examination of what it takes to endure as a producer. Granted, if you really want to make movies you’ll find a way regardless of what any book endorses. Plenty of folks just get up and get on with it. This book motivates and elucidates how to have a career beyond that get up and get on with it burst of energy dies down, bills mount up, and you’re really thinking the post office has great benefits (That’s a nod to Hollywood Shuffle. There’s always a job at the post office!).
FILM BUSINESS: (buy through Amazon!)
Rating: Essential to Producers. Good for directors who wake up to the fact they have to make their own careers by developing their own projects.
Film Business fills the gap between making movies for the fun of making movies and making movies your job. There are plenty of books on independent filmmaking and production. Some are technology specific (producing films on Super 8 film, DV, HDV, 16mm) and that allows the producer to sidestep known issues. Alas, it seems TOO MANY books are published by first timers who have more spunk than experience. It’s not to say their words aren’t valid. It’s just that it doesn’t really help explain the world at large. Quite like learning about sex from other dudes. The basic mechanics are there, but there’s so much misinterpretation and misinformation and outright ignorance presented as fact. The basic rule of life: one person’s interpretation of events may not correlate to another’s reality.
I’m at a point of making the leap to producing as my only option for getting by in life. Film Business helps with putting all these fragments from other books together. Given it’s publication date of 2006, the information is very current and addresses the changing landscape. Though things appear to change in the industry, it’s still making little movies with specific purposes: entertain, inform, advertise, instruct.
Perhaps other books will be more nuts and bolts for on-set production, this book delivers for the entrepreneurial individuals who want to produce more than one movie in their lifetime, at a rate greater than one per decade.
Rather than spin yarns about “call yourself a filmmaker if you’ve ever thought of film making!” this book starts with a spot-on examination of what it takes to endure as a producer. Granted, if you really want to make movies you’ll find a way regardless of what any book endorses. Plenty of folks just get up and get on with it. This book motivates and elucidates how to have a career beyond that get up and get on with it burst of energy dies down, bills mount up, and you’re really thinking the post office has great benefits (That’s a nod to Hollywood Shuffle. There’s always a job at the post office!).
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