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The Indie Producers Handbook

Author : Myrl A. Schreibman

Publisher : Watson-Guptill

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 13,81 MB

Release : 2012-02-08

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0770433510

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Book Description

Myrl Schreibman has written a comprehensive and practical, step-by-step guide for organizing and running a film from pre-production through post-production and delivery. This invaluable resource provides fundamental tools to produce a more thorough, more organized, and more professional film production. Packed with engaging and useful anecdotes, Schreibman provides a superlative introduction and overview to all of the key elements in producing for film and television. Useful to film students and filmmakers as a theoretical and practical guide to understanding the filmmaking process, Schreibman fills his manuscript with practical examples from his considerable personal experience in the film industry. Loaded with insider tips to help filmmakers avoid the pitfalls of show business.



The Producer's Business Handbook

Author : John J. Lee, Jr.

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 215 pages

File Size : 13,47 MB

Release : 2012-11-12

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1136050493

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Book Description

The Producer's Business Handbook provides a model for making a successful business of independent filmmaking. It will give you a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and supply you with the information and tools you'll need to successfully engage all related aspects of global production and exploitation. The handbook also provides a global orientation to the relationships that the most successful producers have with the various participants in the motion picture industry. This includes how producers direct their relationships with domestic and foreign studios, agencies, attorneys, talent, completion guarantors, banks, and private investors. It provides a thorough orientation to operating production development and single purpose production companies, from solicitation of literary properties through direct rights sales, and the management of global distribution relationships. Also presented is an in-depth discussion of the team roles needed to operate these companies, as well as how to attach and direct them. For those outside of the US, this book also includes information about how to produce successful films without government funding. This edition has been updated to include comprehensive information on the internal greenlighting process, government financing, and determining actual cost-of-money. It includes new simplified project evaluation tools, expediting funding and distribution. Together with its companion CD-ROM, which contains valuable forms and spreadsheets; tutorials; and samples, this handbook presents both instruction and worksheet support to independent producers at all levels of experience.



The Independent Film Producers Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

Author : Gunnar Erickson

Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books

Page : 419 pages

File Size : 17,91 MB

Release : 2011-08-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0857124986

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Book Description

In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie.



Producing for Hollywood

Author : Don Gold

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 40,86 MB

Release : 2004-06-01

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 162153135X

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Book Description

Budding filmmakers, television producers, directors, writers, and students get a crash course on the independent production scene in this riveting account of the business and its key players. Now revised to reflect the latest production trends in the entertainment industry, this book is packed with never-before-revealed secrets about the challenging and exciting role producers play in bringing a film or television pilot to the screen, told by two veteran, award-winning producers. Readers will learn what skills and traits they need to succeed as the mastermind behind an independent production, including insider tips on how to assemble and manage a talented ensemble of writers, directors, actors, and crew-members. The book also includes up-to-date contact information for film festivals and foreign distributors, as well as sample budgets, film partnership proposals, and other forms. Aspiring film and television artists will find the practical understanding and insight vital to success.



Indie Film Producing

Author : Suzanne Lyons

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 261 pages

File Size : 19,18 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 024081763X

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Book Description

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.



The Music Producer's Handbook

Author : Bobby Owsinski

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 29,96 MB

Release : 2023-09-21

Category : Music

ISBN : 149308366X

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Book Description

The Music Producer's Handbook, Second Edition reveals the secrets to becoming a music producer and producing just about any kind of project in any genre of music. Among the topics covered are the producer's multiple responsibilities and all the elements involved in a typical production, including budgeting, contracts, selecting the studio and engineer, hiring session musicians, and even getting paid. Unlike other books on production, The Music Producer's Handbook also covers the true mechanics of production, from analyzing, troubleshooting, and fixing a song that isn't working to getting the best performance and sound out of a band or vocalist. In addition, Bobby Owsinski tackles what may be the toughest part of being a producer – being a diplomat, a confidant, and an amateur psychologist all at once. This edition also includes new chapters on self-production, small studio production, and how the new songwriter-producer and engineer-producer hybrids make money in our new digital music world. It also features several new interviews with some of the best-selling producers from different musical genres, who offer advice on getting started, getting paid, and making hits. Packed with inside information and including exclusive online media, The Music Producer's Handbook, Second Edition provides invaluable tools and advice that will help beginners and seasoned professionals alike. Item includes online resource.



The Music Producer’s Survival Guide

Author : Brian M. Jackson

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 686 pages

File Size : 11,37 MB

Release : 2018-03-09

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1315519755

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Book Description

A music-career book like no other, The Music Producer’s Survival Guide offers a wide-ranging, exploratory, yet refreshing down-to-earth take on living the life of the independent electronic music producer. If you are an intellectually curious musician/producer eager to make your mark in today’s technologically advanced music business, you’re in for a treat. This new edition includes industry and technological updates, additional interviews, and tips about personal finances, income, and budgets. In this friendly, philosophical take on the art and science of music production, veteran producer, engineer, and teacher Brian Jackson shares clear, practical advice about shaping your own career in today’s computer-centric "home-studio" music world. You’ll cover music technology, philosophy of music production, career planning, networking, craft and creativity, the DIY ethos, lifestyle considerations, and much more. Brian’s thoughtful approach will teach you to integrate your creative passion, your lifestyle, and your technical know-how. The Music Producer’s Survival Guide is the first music-production book to consider the influence of complexity studies and chaos theory on music-making and career development. It focuses on practicality while traversing a wide spectrum of topics, including essential creative process techniques, the TR-808, the proliferation of presets, the butterfly effect, granular synthesis, harmonic ratios, altered states, fractal patterns, the dynamics of genre evolution, and much more. Carving out your niche in music today is an invigorating challenge that will test all your skills and capacities. Learn to survive—and thrive—as a creative-technical professional in today’s music business, with the help of Brian Jackson and The Music Producer’s Survival Guide!



Producer to Producer

Author : Maureen A. Ryan

Publisher :

Page : 350 pages

File Size : 22,39 MB

Release : 2017

Category : PERFORMING ARTS

ISBN : 9781615932665

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Book Description

This is a comprehensive bible to low-budget film producing for emerging and professional producers. Structured to guide the reader through production meetings, every aspect of the film-production pro-cess is outlined in detail. Invaluable checklists -- which begin 12 weeks before shooting and continue through principal (and secondary) photography and postproduction -- keep the filmmaker on track and on target. Ryan is co-producer of James Marsh's Man on Wire, winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary



Independent Producers' Guide to Film and TV Contracts

Author : Philip Alberstat

Publisher :

Page : 492 pages

File Size : 43,3 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Contracts

ISBN :

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Book Description

A reference tool on the legal issues associated with film and television production. It contains examples of typical legal agreements which independent producers, writers and others involved in the film and TV industry are faced with during the course of setting up a film or TV production.



Indie Filmmaker Producer's Guide

Author : Jackie L. Young

Publisher : Young Films and Publishing LLC

Page : 374 pages

File Size : 22,97 MB

Release : 2013-10

Category :

ISBN : 9780977432851

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Book Description

This book is written for the independent film producer who wears more hats than they thought they would ever wear but who knows that to get a film done it takes doing whatever needs getting done. This book also pushes the producer to take their filmmaking to another level and to find ways to make their movies more competitive with other movies in the marketplace by understanding some of the mistakes that indie filmmakers make and how to avoid those mistakes. The book covers all phases of film production from pre-production, through production and into the post production phase and includes a section on distribution. The book provides pertinent information on film production from a real independent filmmaker who has been in the trenches making films for years. The author shares insight into issues and problems that indie filmmakers face and provides technical and creative solutions and suggestions.