Movie Making Manual

• Preface: How you can contribute - How to navigate this book - Hierarchical category index - List of contributors
• Filmmaking Overview: Film (Wikipedia) - The Basic Basics - Teach Yourself Filmmaking

Introduction to Movie Making

• What is movie making?
• Staffing & casting

Development Development Overview Legal Copyright Protecting your Ideas Writing Concept Writing Rewriting Screenplay Format Certification Low Budget Writing Pitching Synopsis Logline Treatment Elements Funding and Budgeting Funding Grants Tax Breaks

Pre-production Preproduction 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 Legal Crew Contract Cast Contract Release Form

Production Production Overview Technical Cinematography The Camera The Camera Crew Moving the Camera Composition Filtration Aspect Ratio Audio Microphones Recording Devices Audio Formats Actors Blocking Lighting Power Sources 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

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

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

Special/Techniques Chroma Key Human Cloning Slow Motion

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 Bombay (Mumbai) London Los Angeles New York Charlotte Pittsburgh San Francisco 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) The Art of Flirting