BOOKS

Here are some books you might find useful about filmmaking and creating budgets in particular.

Making The Tin Man: How I Made My First Feature Film

The no-holds-barred account of a young filmmaker and his dream to make his first feature-length film.

This book covers many important topics including budgeting/ financing, choosing the right actors, important skills every producer/director must have, labor unions and dealing with SAG, what passion in Hollywood really means to a director and how to maximize on-set production efficiency.

Special Emphasis on :

• Understanding of psychology of actors
  
• Controlling actors and their growth curves
  
• How to sell a scene
  
• What a director must know about editing
  
• How to block scenes efficiently
  
• Actor's blocks, actor's circles, and how to deal with them
  
• Mistakes you should never make
  
• The personal and emotional aspects of directing a movie
  
• Plus many other great tools every director needs to know.

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Film Budgeting : Or, How Much It Will Cost to Shoot Your Movie?

The companion book to the best-selling Film Scheduling, Film Budgeting takes the reader through the steps of converting a motion picture schedule to a professional motion picture budget. Included is an actual budget to Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation as an example, complete with footnotes, glossary and index. When used in conjunction with its companion workbook, The Film Scheduling/Film Budgeting Workbook, Film Budgeting can comprise a do-it-yourself course on motion picture budgeting.

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Film Scheduling/Film Budgeting Workbook

Complete do-it-yourself workbook companion to Film Scheduling and Film Budgeting. Contains the entire Academy Award-nominated screenplay to Francis Ford Coppola's film The Conversation, as well as sample production and budget forms to be completed by the reader. All sheets are perforated.

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The On Production Budget Book

This is a handbook for producers and production managers in creating budgets and trouble-shooting during production. It incorporates a manual for computer use in budgeting. But mostly it explains all the accounts in a movie or TV budget and how to use them to forestall problems during filming (or taping).

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The Producer's Business Handbook

* A comprehensive guide to the business of motion pictures for producers at all levels * Explains the business practices of consistently profitable production companies * Interactive companion CD provides examples and practices.

The Producer's Business Handbook provides filmmakers with a comprehensive examination of the business of entertainment. It provides the information and tools required to engage all aspects of global production and exploitation. The book and its companion CD-ROM provide both instruction and worksheet support to independent producers at all levels of industry experience.

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Producer to Producer : Insider Tips for Entertainment Media

Producer to Producer collects Michael Wiese's cutting-edge insights on producing, financing, marketing and creativity. These informal and entertaining articles, drawn from Mr. Wiese's extensive experiences and those of other successful video and television producers, were first published in his Videography Magazine columns.

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The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.

This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains.

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