About

Day 1: Produce, Direct, Shoot

Learn how to execute cost effective production and put value for money on the screen.

• The seven keys to success for producers
• Who the independents are
• The benefits of independents over studios
• The two musts for any script
• The proven low-budget formula
• Casting, contacting celebrities, agents
• Guilds & unions: AFTRA, BECTU, Equity etc
• Six types of film stock & buying wholesale
• Labs: prices, one light, work & answer print
• Cameras, sound/light/grip/dolly packages
• Crew: who to hire, what to pay
• Shooting ratios, blocking, coverage,
• Costs, completion bonds, guerrilla filming
• Permits & insurance
• Non-linear, electronic editing, the eight steps
• Six musts for sound, ADR, Foley, the mix
• Negative cutting, timing, securing final print

Day 2: Market, Finance, Distribute

The real facts and secrets about marketing, selling and distributing your film world-wide.

• Distribution, selling to acquisition executives
• Up-front money, getting paid, P&A money
• Gross participation, cross collateralisation
• The route to Cannes, Sundance
• The three major film markets
• Selling foreign rights
• Three areas to sell to
• Producing for video, buyers, VSDA, NAVD
• Press kits, stills, publicists, getting reviews
• Creating and manipulating your career
• Reverse budgeting
• $3–5m, $1m, $100,000 & no-budget
• Planning an efficient shooting schedule
• Distribution, box office, producer’s gross
• Exhibitors’ share, arbitration clauses
• Where the industry is going
• Opportunities on the Internet