Where do you find the cash for your movie? — There are so many ways to get financing!
You can use your own money. This is the only way where you probably won’t have anyone looking over your shoulder or calling the shots.
You can use you family and friend’s money, which can add a load of [...]
When do you prepare a budget?
As soon as the script is done. Before you start to look for money. The author recommends that you should assemble three budgets; the dream budget, the less-than-dream budget, and the bad-dream budget.
Dream budget…will most lkely be out of reach unless you can attract a seriously bankable actor.
Less-than-dream budget…is the [...]
Development, which is the conception, writing, budgeting, and casting is the most nebulous area of movie making. Development and budgeting go hand in hand. When putting together a movie, don’t just think about what is going to be said, but who it’s going to be said to.The Seed
If you establish yourself, scripts will find their [...]
Author Christine Vachon, an American independent movie producer wrote this book “Shooting to Kill”, subtitled, “How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies That Matter”. I will be doing a chapter by chapter summary with reflections every now and then of this book. Feel free to comment if you wish.
Summary
What does a [...]