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Contents 1 Introduction to Movie Making 2 Development 3 Pre-production 4 Production 5 Post-production 6 Film Distribution & Marketing 7 Digital Filmmaking 8 Appendices

[edit] Introduction to Movie Making

• What is movie making?
• Staffing & casting

[edit] Development

• Writing
  • Theory
  • Writing
  • Rewriting
  • Screenplay Format
  • Treatments
  • Synopsis
  • Logline
  • Pitching
  • Certification
  • Downloading scripts
  • Writing Low Budget
• Protecting Your Ideas
• Funding and budgetting
  • Funding Plans
  • Grants
  • Tax Breaks
  • "Elements"
• Contracts and law
  • Copyright

[edit] Pre-production

• Overview
• Budgeting and Scheduling
• Pre-production
  • Acquiring film stock
  • Storyboarding
  • Casting Directors
  • Location Scouting
  • Funding and budgetting contents
  • Scheduling contents
• Paperwork
  • Call Sheet
  • Scene Breakdown
  • Release Form
• Contracts and law
  • Crew Contract
  • Cast Contract
  • Release Form

[edit] Production

• Overview
  • Production Overview
• Technical
  • Cinematography
  • Actors contents
  • Blocking
  • Lighting
  • Power Sources
  • Sound Recording
  • Stills Photography
  • Character Animation
• Directing and managing a set
  • Directing contents
  • Shooting Styles
  • Clapper Board and Keeping Notes On Set
  • Directing Actors
  • Keeping the crew happy

[edit] Post-production

• Overview
  • Post Production Overview
• Audio
  • Music/Film Scoring
  • Sound Design
  • Foley
  • ADR
• Visual: What is Editing
  • How To Edit a Dramatic Scene
  • Visual Effects
  • Animation (for Visual Effects)
  • Colour Grading
  • Digital Intermediate
  • Subtitles
  • Which format to finish on?
  • HD Links
• For cellulloid
  • Telecine

[edit] Film Distribution & Marketing

• Overview
  • Film Distribution & Marketing Overview
• Sales, Exhibition & Distribution
  • Film Marketing
  • Distributing Direct
  • Selling Online
  • Digital Cinema Distribution
  • Submitting to a broadcaster
  • Putting videos online
  • Burning a DVD

[edit] Digital Filmmaking

Enter the Movie Making Manual Volume 2 – The Digital Video Production Manual and see the future of filmmaking in the 21st century.

• Digital Video Production Manual Contents

[edit] Appendices

• Training
  • Teach Yourself Filmmaking
  • Work Experience
  • Online Resources
  • Part 2 of Teach Yourself Filmmaking
• Ongoing
  • Film Accounting
• Low budget filmmaking
  • Writing Low Budget
  • Shooting on Film for little money
  • Deferred Payments
  • Linux in film production
  • Digital Puppets
• Short films
  • Why Make a Short
  • Financing Shorts
  • Distribution and Exhibition of Shorts
• Music videos
  • Why Make a Music Video
  • Financing Music Videos
  • Exhibition of Music Videos
  • Submitting Music Videos
• Movie Making Manual Events
  • Meetings
• Local Resources
  • Mumbai(Bombay)
  • London
  • Los Angeles
  • New York
  • Charlotte
  • Pittsburgh
  • Toronto
  • Vancouver (aka Hollywood North)
• Watching Films
  • Cannes Film Festival
  • Sundance Film Festival
  • Toronto Film Festival
  • Venice Film Festival
  • Raindance Film Festival
  • Berlin Film Festival
  • Watching Films on the Internet
• You the filmmaker
  • Growing as an Artist
  • Networking For Filmmakers
  • Setting up a production company
• Tools and equipment
  • Linux in film production
  • Mac in film production
  • Windows in film production
  • Transferring large files over the Internet
  • Building your own editing system
  • Video Compression/Decompression CO-DEC's
  • Equipment and software reviews
  • Stock footage
• Communal Filmmaking
  • Equipment Timeshares
• Case studies
  • Currently Untitled Studio (Pre-production)
  • Movie Making Manual-The Art of Flirting