Resources (blog home)
by Michael Neel & Greg Ansin

Here are some links, books and companies we rely on in our film making. We'd love to hear from you on places to add.

*Before you shoot

Creative Cow - A large resource for the indie film maker.

IMDB - The Internet Movie Database - All the information on all films.

"The Complete Film Production Handbook" by Eve Light Honthaner. A book with all the ins and outs of production.

"What They Don't Teach you at Film School" by Camille Landau & Tiare White. A book that does exactly that.

"Independent Filmmakers Manual" - Nicole Shay LaLoggia, Eden H. Wurmfeld.  A great marriage of practical and technical advice, for every stage of film production

*Writing

John August - Hollywood screenwriter John August has a lot of useful info about screenwriting.

"Writing Exercises" By Greg Ansin & Michael Neel - A few ideas on the writing process.

"Adventures in the Screen Trade" by William Goldman - a personal view of Hollywood and Screenwriting from the writer of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Princess Bride"

"Good Scripts Bad Scripts" by Thomas Pope - learning the craft of screenwriting through 25 of the best and worst films in history

"Screenplay" by Syd Field - a great nuts-and-bolts approach to screenwriting

"Screenwriting 434" by Lew Hunter - a other great technical approach to screenwriting

Celtx - Pre-production and screen writting software. This is a great product free for both mac and PC.

 

*Budget

"Producing, Financing, and Distributing Film: A Comprehensive Legal and Business Guide" - by Paul Baumgarten, Donald Farber, and Mark Fleischer.  Accounting, contracts, clearing music - its all in here.

There are many spread sheets and accountanting programs - here are a list of the few popular ones. Google. Microsoft. Quickbook. MYOB.

 

*Format

There any many, many formats to film on see ARRI, Sony, Canon, RED to name a few...

*Storyboards

A video from Indy Mogul a good how to and why (link).

Storyboard templates can be found at xinsight.com, sonnyboo and dependentfilms.

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