The Power Filmmaking Kit, Cinematography
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The Power Filmmaking Kit
Make Your Professional Movie on a
Next-to-Nothing Budget
Jason J. Tomaric
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Tomaric, Jason.
The power lmmaking kit : make your professional movie on a next-to-nothing budget / Jason
Tomaric.
p. cm.
Includesindex.
ISBN 978-0-240-81021-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Motion pictures—Production and
direction. 2. Low budget motion pictures. I. Title.
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Contents
UNIT 1 DEVELOPMENT
1
Timeline
1
Chapter 1: The Script
3
Introduction
3
Writing Your Own Script
4
Developing the Idea
4
Setting up Your Space
7
Developing a Premise
7
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Step 1: Fiction or Non ction
7
Step2:Genre
8
Step3:Format
8
Step 4: Plot Type
10
Optioning Material
10
Working with a Writer
11
Story Structure
12
The A Plot
12
Act 1
12
Act 2
13
Turning Point
14
Act 3
14
Subplots
15
The gasp moments
16
Writing a script
16
Title
18
Theme
18
Logline
18
Treatment
18
Outline
19
Script
20
Creating Characters
21
Contents
Box: Making Original Characters
22
Activities
23
Formatting Guidelines
23
Tips for Writing Successfully
27
Box: Resources for Writers
29
Writing on a Budget
30
Rewrites
31
Protecting Your Script
32
Optioning a script
32
UNIT 2 PREPRODUCTION
34
Timeline
34
Chapter 2: Preproduction
37
Introduction
37
Setting Up an Of ce
39
Legal Consultations
39
Release Forms
40
Books
41
Box: Preproduction
41
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Chapter 3: Budgeting
43
Introduction
43
Raising Money
43
Box: Business Formulas
44
Budgeting
45
Cast and Crew
49
The Business Plan
50
Forming a Company
52
Managing the Budget
54
Budget Categories
55
Chapter 4: Scheduling
61
Introduction
61
Step 1: Lining the Script
62
Step 2: Scene Breakdown Sheets
62
Step 3: Determine the Number of Shooting Days
64
Step 4: Making the Daily Schedule
68
Step 5: Finalizing the Schedule
73
Step 6: During Production
73
Contact List
73
Call Sheets
73
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