Do you have a script or treatment ready before the shooting commences? If yes, make sure it is accommodating to your budget, if not, don’t start shooting but work on your script/treatment until it’s ready. Do you have a budget set aside for your production? I know that often people say that they are working…
Filmmaking and Writing
List of 20 Films to Watch from Monster in the House Genre
“MONSTER IN THE HOUSE” is one of the scriptwriting genres coined by Blake Snyder. According to Blake Snyder “it has two working parts: a monster, a house. And when you add people into that house, desperate to kill the monster, you’ve got a movie type so primal that it translates to everyone, everywhere.”. To find…
Go Slowly
I know how precious the ideas are. From my experience of making films and videos I know how terribly those ideas can be executed if not enough work is put into pre-production or because in the haste and heat of the moment, wrong decisions were made about the casting, the crew or even the script….
List of 10 Things You Need to Learn Before Leaving the Film School
Learn how to write different types of pitches (from an elevator pitch to a complete pitch) and how to pitch your projects to others using them. Learn how to write a treatment and what the difference is between a treatment and an outline. Learn as much as possible about film festivals, start attending festivals while…
How to Breakdown Your Script?
Script breakdown is needed to do your budget correctly; to know how many cast & crew members you need or what props and costumes each scene will require. It is done to make the director and his creative team, as well as producers, live easier. When I’m a director of the project, I sit down…
Working with Children Actors
I do have to say I was pretty nervous when I decided to work with a child actor. A lot of my scripts have children characters written in, but since it always takes such a long time to go from the script idea into production, I never gave a second thought about do’s and don’t’s…
What Is the Soul of the Film?
As a filmmaker and an avid film consumer (I watch several films a week), I started wondering what makes some stories work and some stories fall short of the high expectations an audience member has while waiting with anticipation for the film to be out. I don’t care about big-budget superhero movies, special effects or…
What Is the Film Director’s Job on the Film Set?
People ask me this question quite often and, sometimes, even I ask myself the same question. I could go on and on about the technicalities of my job and the endless amount of skills it requires from me and how much knowledge the director needs to have to be able to effectively communicate with their…
List of International Sales Agencies and Companies for Film and TV
ADRIANA CHIESA ENTERPRISES (IT) http://www.adrianachiesaenterprises.com/ ADRIANA CHIESA ENTERPRISES SRL (A.C.E.), was founded in 1990 by Adriana Chiesa Di Palma. Though at creation, A.C.E.’s principal activity was international film distribution, today it also acquires films, concludes co-productions and actively participates in the development of film projects. ARCLIGHT FILMS PTY (AU, US) http://www.arclightfilms.com/ Arclight Films is a…
List of 20 Film Financing Organisations
1. Canwest-Hot Docs Funds http://www.hotdocs.ca/i/film-funds Hot Docs and Canwest have partnered in the creation of the Canwest-Hot Docs Documentary Funds. These Funds consist of a $3-million completion fund and a $1-million development fund. Canwest’s $4-million infusion into the Canadian documentary production community via the Funds will provide much-needed financial support to filmmakers facing financing gaps…