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Filmmaking

HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: FILM & TV - AVIVA KEMPNER

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

AVIVA KEMPNER is a long time filmmaker whose works covered a broad range of issues, both domestic and international such as homelessness, civil rights and the Holocaust. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is one of her most noted works. She served as the documentary's writer, director and producer. The film went on to win many awards, including the Peabody Award and awards from the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Kempner is also the founder of the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Ciesla Foundation, dedicated to producing and distributing films to educate the public on social issues of the past and present.

DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: FILM & TV - CAREN CROSS

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

CAREN CROSS began her filmmaking career as writer/director of award winning documentary Lost and Found in Mexico. The film focuses on the reasons why U.S. citizens move to Mexico.

DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: FILM & TV - CHRISTIAN DANDREA

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

CHRISTIAN DANDREA is credited with co-developing a widely used energy bar for soldiers and civilians alike called SoldierFuel; an idea he came up with while working on HALO: Freefall Warriors, a documentary he created and executive produced for Discovery Communication. D'Andrea produced Searching for God in Iraq, a six-part documentary series examining the presence of religion and the role of chaplains in the U.S. war in Iraq.

DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: FILM & TV - HOLLY & PAUL FINE

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

HOLLY and PAUL FINE are a husband and wife team of documentary producer/directors. With over 38 years of experience in the industry, their works have garnered ten National Emmy and 75 Local Emmy awards, as well as three Peabody awards. The couple had a long association with the CBS news program 60 Minutes and has produced a number of other television specials including In the Killing Fields of America. After leaving CBS, the Fines signed on with ABC to produce specials for hit series: 20/20, Turning Point and Primetime Live.

DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: FILM & TV - LANCE KRAMER

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

LANCE KRAMER is co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures, a platform for producing independent social impact documentaries, commissioned films with leading nonprofit organizations and innovative media arts education programs. In 2014, Kramer accepted the Mayors Arts Award in Innovation, the highest honor given to a working artist in Washington, DC.

DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: FILM & TV - MIKE WALTER

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

MIKE WALTER, broadcast journalist turned filmmaker. His documentary film, Breaking News, Breaking Down, reveals for the first time how traumatic news events affect those who report them. Breaking News, Breaking Down won the 2010 Cannes Best Short Documentary Award.

DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: FILM & TV - MIMI MACHADO-LUCES

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

MIMI MACHADO-LUCES, Emmy, Telly and ProMax award winning; Producer, Writer, Director of documentary films, television programs, health education films, commercial advertisements and television promotion spots. She won critical acclaim with La Vida in Black, a character portrait of Afro-Latinos living in the Americas.

DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FILMMAKER: CINEMATOGRAPHER - DENNIS BONI

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

DENNIS BONI is an award-winning cinematographer who has worked on such projects as the PBS series Journey to Planet Earth. A Steadicam operator for more than 20 years, Boni was one of the few cinematographers handpicked to be trained by Garret Brown, inventor of the Steadicam. He was nominated for National Emmy Awards, for his DP/Steadicam work on the Smithsonian project, Remembering Vietnam: The Wall at 25, and for Koppel Groups, Peoples Republic of Capitalism.

DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FILMMAKER: PRODUCER - KATHLEEN JONES

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

KATHLEEN JONES has served as Unit Coordinator for Special Units, Field Producer and Associate Producer for programs at National Geographic TV. She is a writer and co-founder of Doc&aDrink, a blog for those hooked on documentaries.

DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FILMMAKER: PRODUCER - ROSHINI THINAKARAN

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

ROSHINI THINAKARAN is a filmmaker with National Geographic. Her focus is on regions devastated by war. Through her travels she has met women who are dedicated to moving on with their lives, supporting their families and rebuilding their homelands. "My goal is to bring awareness to women who are making real strides and to eventually build schools in these countries, for both girls and boys. If you don't empower people with education, societies will break down." Women at the Forefront is Thinakarans film project, which reveals a strong womens movement born of oppression and hardship happening all around the world.

DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: ANIMATION

This program looks at animation, a style of filmmaking that gained popularity during the silent era of the 1920s and has remained extremely popular from the 1930s to the present day. Animation still remains a labor-intensive and time-intensive process as the artists and crafts people behind contemporary animated programming are still essentially applying the same processes as the early animation pioneers, holds and cycles and synchronization. This program includes two practical animated tutorials as well as some classical animation from the early 1900s.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: CINEMATOGRAPHY

Cinematography looks at what a camera operator is responsible for and how they make the decisions to create the look the director desires. This segment will focus on cinematography, or camera work and how this tool helps in the creation of the story. The role of the camera operator, or cinematographer, can be highly artistic while simultaneously requiring significant scientific and technical knowledge to be performed well. From the birth of motion pictures in the 1890s to the talkies of the late 1920s, cinematography was of paramount importance to successful narrative, since in the absence of dialogue to record, footsteps or closing doors to anticipate, or music to incorporate, the camera could capture the moving image only. In the first decade of motion pictures, the role of the cinematographer or camera operator and director were one and the same, but as cinema evolved, the duties of the director and cinematographer diverged. In this program we review Academy Award winner, James Wong Howe, who pioneered dollying and handheld camera techniques as well as the use of unconventional light sources. We take a look at his 1938 film Algiers, which earned Howe his first Academy nomination for Best Cinematography, focusing on the moving camerawork.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 26 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

Documentary talks about some of the different styles of documentary filmmaking from the birth of cinema to the present day. It is a multi-part look at the history, techniques, movements, and people who create the magic that we call motion pictures. Todays program will talk about a style of filmmaking outside of the normal fiction or narrative films that we as audience members are used to seeing, that is, documentary filmmaking. With the birth of cinema in the 1890s, spearheaded by America's Thomas Edison and Frances Louis and Auguste Lumiere, filmmaking progressed in two directions. Edison brought his subjects before a stationary camera to his tarpaper-covered studio called the Black Maria built at West Orange, New Jersey partly because the camera required multiple people to move it. While Edison was bringing people to the Black Maria to have a pie, the Lumiere brothers created the cinematographe. The resulting camera mobility allowed people to go out into the world and both document events and project films. Included are a number of clips from classic documentary films. Features the 1934 documentary Song of Ceylon, 1935 British film Housing Problems, the 1936 film The Plow that Broke the Plainsand, 1938's film The River, 'Why We Fight' and the 1944 film, The Battle of San Pietro.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 28 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: EARLY CINEMA

This program looks at the very birth of cinema in the late 1800s through the talkies in 1928. It is a multi-part look at the history, techniques, movements and people who created the magic that we call motion pictures. The dawn of the moving image began early in the 19th century with the discovery that a surface treated with a photo-sensitive emulsion would reveal an image when exposed to light. These first photos, or tintypes, were crude forms of photography improved upon by the creation of more flexible photo-sensitive material, or film, which resulted in better still photographic images. Photographic images whose subjects were photographed in slightly different positions could be flipped in rapid succession to create the illusion of subjects in motion. George Eastman, of Eastman-Kodak fame, created a celluloid film stock that could be wound on a reel, resulting in the first actual example of moving images on film. Experiments in the 1890s by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise, under the auspices of the Thomas Edison Company, resulted in the invention of the Kinetograph, a vertical feed camera which exposed film and had a row of sprockets on each side of the celluloid strip, much like our conventional 35 mm film today. Featured are early films from Thomas Edison, The Lumiere Brothers and George Melies.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 26 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: EDITING

This program focus on editing and how this process helps tell the story in a motion picture. The editing process follows some simple steps: takes the raw footage from the camera after it is developed, select the shots and combines them into sequences which will themselves be combined to create an entire motion picture. Completing these steps sounds easy enough, but in reality, editing a film extends beyond arranging shots into a completed project. Deciding which shots to use and their length requires creativity and discernment. Editing is sometimes described as an invisible art, because if the editor performs their job well, the audience, never notice the cuts. We are simply engaged in the story. Editing discusses how a film is cut to create the story we see on the screen. This program features a long take, from the 1950 film Cyrano de Bergerac, Establishing shot, from the 1937 film A Star is Born, A point of view shot, when the camera replaces the eye of the character and we see exactly what the character sees - the opening of Naked Kiss from 1964 and cutting on action, from John Houston's 1954 film Beat the Devil.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 28 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: GENRE

Film genre, or the classification of film into categories is based upon designated characteristics that distinguish one film from another. Genre explores what characteristics indicate a film genre like horror, musical, Western and comedy and how viewers understand the story put before them. They remain a useful way to categorize and distinguish most films, so that audiences know what to expect. Most film critics agree on ten film genres: action-adventure, comedy, costume films, epics, horror, musical, science fiction and fantasy, suspense, war, and the western. This program discusses the following films and the genre of each - Angel and the Badman, The Road to Bali, Royal Wedding, My Man Godfrey and The Big Combo.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 26 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: INTERNATIONAL CINEMA

How Hollywood Does It is a look at the history, techniques, movements and people who create the magic of motion pictures. In this program we go global, or look at global cinema. While American cinema has had a wide-spread influence on world popular cultures almost from the beginning, many other nations have had significant national film traditions that have also had an influence. But, rather than provide a panoramic view of each national cinema, we are going to concentrate on some of the most influential world film movements and filmmakers since the beginning of cinema. Includes some of the major foreign film movements, such as Italian Neo-Realism and French New Wave. Hosted by Jeffrey Hill and Mark A. Graves - Jeffrey Hill is an associate professor at Morehead State University, Department of Communication, Media and Leadership Studies. Dr. Mark Graves is an associate professor of English.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: LIGHTING

This program focus on lighting and how a cinematographer and lighting engineer work together to showcase what is put before the camera. Lighting is a crucial component to filmmaking because it enables the director to say, Look here, not there, or to light up an entire scene so we can peruse what's in the film's frame. Without light we are left with this 'LIGHTS OFF' nothing. We need light to see the film and we need lighting engineers to handle and control the lighting so the director can attain the look they want. Quite often what makes an average production exceptional is the lighting. This program discusses what tools are used to create different lighting set-ups and uses a number of examples to illustrate how this important element is decided. Lighting design falls into two categories, High-Key lighting and Low-Key lighting. High-Key lighting provides relatively bright, even illumination of the film frame or scene, the kind the director and producer of a big-scale musical productions may choose to showcase 60 dancers and 20 chorus singers and their elaborate costumes. Low-key lighting is focused lighting with strong contrast. Low-key lighting creates fast fall-off, which means that the image goes from light to dark very quickly, falling off into shadows or darkness. Low-key lighting works well in horror films, or any film in which a director wishes to create suspense or keep you guessing what is in the dark, inky shadows on the outskirts of the frame. This program discusses the following films and the lighting of each Royal Wedding (musical) the scene is brightly lit throughout in both, wide and medium shots. Night of the Living Dead (horror) to enhance the suspense, the lighting creates shadows which heighten the mystery. Flying Deuces (comedy) like a musical, relies on a high-key lighting set-up, eliminating almost all shadows.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: MISE-EN-SCENE

Mise-en-scene looks at how filmmakers make decisions about what is put before the camera. It includes costumes, props, set design, positioning of actors and much more. Mise en scene is a term that refers to all visual elements that appear within each frame of a motion picture. Without various features of mise en scene, a moving picture would consist of only a series of flickering black or light-infused frames, since even a colored screen would provide visual information that some might consider an element of mise en scene. A French phrase which translates roughly as placed on stage, Mise-en-scene is a broad concept often difficult to define for film because it only exists when considering a combination of elements within the frame or camera's eye. Basically, anything to be filmed the setting, the costumes and make-up, the movement, facial expression, and position of actors on screen, and some elements of lighting is considered mise en scene. The concept of mise en scene for film shares a lot with theater production in that props, sets and blocking of actors are all deliberately chosen for particular effects, although the physical space of the stage and theater often limit or dictate how mise en scene is perceived by an audience. Features the Western, Angel and the Badman, silent film, Caligari, costuming Cyrano de Bergerac and lighting (an air of mystery) Film Noir.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 28 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: SOUND

Sound investigates the various types of sound, how they are recorded, and how they are incorporated in a film. Besides the visuals in moving pictures, sound also contributes to part of those magical effects. This program will focus on sound design and how life can be breathed into a project through the use of carefully selected and carefully placed sounds. When we think about or talk about them, we can categorize all sounds into one of three categories: dialogue or voice, music, and sound effects. Sound effects can be sounds that occur naturally within the film itself or sounds that add to the overall impact that the film presents. Music is quite often not part of the film itself, but a musical track that adds to the mood of the film. Both music and sound effects are usually classified as either diegetic or non-diegetic sounds. Simply put, non-diegetic sounds are those which do not occur within the film, while diegetic sounds occur inside of the film's action. This program features diegetic and non-diegetic music in the 1950 film D-O-A Atmospheric sound known as foleying in Meet John Doe and manufactured sound elements (suspenseful mood music, a ray gun emission, the whirling of flying spaceships) in the 1953 Killers From Outer Space.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: THE DIRECTING PROCESS

This program discuss three big jobs in motion picture making; screenwriting, producing and directing. The director is responsible for the overall feel and look of the film and decides on the use all of the other process of movie making - lighting, editing, mise en scene, cinematography and sound which ultimately reflect the directors control and vision. Explore films from major directors of cinema and learn how a script is formatted. Includes the opening scene from the Howard Hawks film His Girl Friday, Stanley Donen, the 1951 musical Royal Wedding, Vincente Minnelli, comedy film Fathers Little Dividend, Frank Capra, 1941 film, Meet John Doe, John Huston, 1953 film Beat The Devil and Michael Gordons 1950 film, Cyrano De Bergerac. Hosted by Jeffrey Hill and Mark A. Graves - Jeffrey Hill is an associate professor at Morehead State University, Department of Communication, Media and Leadership Studies. Dr. Mark Graves is an associate professor of English.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 26 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: THE GOLDEN AGE OF CINEMA

The Golden Age of Hollywood motion picture making was a period of almost 30 years, beginning in 1928 and ending in the mid-1950s. This program focuses on the classical Hollywood era of the 1930s through the 1950s. The hosts discuss and present clips from some of the films which made this era of Hollywood so memorable including the musical Dixiana, the western (Fighting Caravans), A Star is Born, The Vampire Bat, The Little Princess (Shirley Temple), Father's Little Dividend with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

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DIGITAL CINEMA FILMMAKERS TRAINING COURSE: ACTORS TRAINING GUIDE - FOR ACTORS AND DIRECTORS

Explores the process of discovering and preparing a character for film with acting instructor and coach, Stephen Heu. Students will prepare, rehearse and perform a scene from the script titled "THE CAMERA". Lesson segment includes: The Audition; the Sides; the Look; the Script; the Process; exploring the Character; finding Identity; Believability and the Organic Performance; the Struggle; Impressions and the Seasons; Subtext, content underneath the spoken dialog; Empathy, Living the moment; Inspiring other actors; Slowing down; Exercises; How to not abandon the character; Working on lessons; Honing our craft; The actors goals and the audiences goals; Loaning emotions to a character; Catharsis; Dealing with separation anxiety; Stage and Film acting differences. Performance segment includes: Holding the last look; Slowing down, taking a beat; Matching other actors level; Retrieve then speak; Controlling the words; Proper breathing; Right to speak; To edit, criticize, or judge an actor; Stretching the emotion; Muscle for Continuing; Looking at an actor as part of the whole script, as part of your own emotional process; Involving the character; Intuition; Learning the process of rehearsal and abandoning the script; Find where your gifts are and utilize them to the fullest; Sharpening your tools; Understanding the process and the script, internalizing the information and LIVING the characters; using blocking to convey emotion.

2 DVDs / 2012 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 2 hours

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DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING: TIPS FROM THE TRENCHES

Ideal for Students of Film & Video to expose students earlier in their communications courses to documentary filmmaking.

This program is a chance to hear from emerging and seasoned filmmakers as they discuss technical, legal, ethical and business issues of documentary film. Thirty filmmakers discuss the art and craft of documentary filmmaking covering everything from finding a story, starting the process, shooting, editing and considering legal and ethical issues to tackling financial and distribution challenges.

Hear directly from Academy Award winners and nominees, first time filmmakers and 50-year veterans as they offer tips from the trenches of filmmaking in brief, modular interview sequences perfect for the classroom.

This program was created in an interactive platform, allowing professors to use it for classes on many different levels beyond communications, to study the social significance of film or how film is an agent for social change. Additionally it can be used as an educational tool for seasoned and aspiring filmmakers as a way to foster idea sharing among professionals.

Features interviews with more than 20 filmmakers, including Richard Berge, Nick Dobb, D.A. Pennebaker and Michael Skolnik.

Subjects Covered Include:
Introduction to Documentary Film
(What is a Documentary, Why Documentary Matters, Why they make films, A Student of Film),
The Story
(Finding Good Stories, Finding Good People, Story into Film, First Person Perspective),
Shooting & Editing
(Sound & Picture, Editing, Screening your Rough Cut),
Legal Issues
(Releases & Clearances, Fair Use, Music),
Ethics
(General Ethics, Specific Ethics),
Financial & Distribution
(Getting Your Film Made, Getting Your Film Out There).

DVD / 2009 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 83 minutes

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INDEPENDENT MOVIE MAKING: ON BUDGET, ON SCHEDULE - BUDGET REVIEW ABOVE THE LINE & BELOW THE LINE

This comprehensive series covers everything from pre-production through post including, choice of script, budget breakdown, common budgeting pitfalls, working with your director for maximum efficiencies and impact, shot lists, equipment estimation and developing a strategy for your budget design. Question and answer, open mic discussions are included with the filmmaking audience providing real life answers to decisions that affect cost, production value, safety issues, personnel motivation and management.

Disc 4, 5 and 6: Contain review of a simple budget line-by-line relating to costs and planning from Above-The-Line through Post-Production, with Q&A throughout.

Disc 4: Budget Review ATL/BTL

ATL and cast

Production BTL costs

Cost reporting

Variance reports.

Disc 5: Budget Review BTL

Purchase orders

Tech scouting

On-set issues

Construction

Equipment for grip/electric/camera

Problem solving.

Disc 6: Budget Review Post-Production

Editorial & post-production

Music

Insurance

Importance of quotes

Signatory packages

Bond companies.

3 DVDs / 2008 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 5 hours

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INDEPENDENT MOVIE MAKING: ON BUDGET, ON SCHEDULE - MONEY, CREW & BREAKING DOWN THE SCRIPT

This comprehensive series covers everything from pre-production through post including, choice of script, budget breakdown, common budgeting pitfalls, working with your director for maximum efficiencies and impact, shot lists, equipment estimation and developing a strategy for your budget design. Question and answer, open mic discussions are included with the filmmaking audience providing real life answers to decisions that affect cost, production value, safety issues, personnel motivation and management.

Disc 1: Money & Financing Politics of money

Your script

Budget strategy

Financing

Unions

The crew

Loss & damage

Bonds-contingencies

SAG

Production reports

Set safety

Sexual harassment

Animals & children on set.

Disc 2: Promoting & Motivating Your CrewActors

Networking & reputation

Getting Started in Film

Line producer

The job of the UPM

Keeping costs low.

Disc 3: Breaking Down Your Script Script timing

Title and script clearance

Review of the one line

The call sheet

Daily production reports.

3 DVDs / 2008 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 5 hours

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