Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking

click here for more details, find new or used items	Elliot Grove Our price £22.79 (£24.99) New from £18.59 Used from £19.00 Pages: 416 (Paperback) ISBN: 0240516990 Pub: Focal Press Pub date: 2004-05-25 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 55604

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The Compete Package (0/0 people found this helpful)

Raindance's Elliot Grove's guide covers every single aspect of filmmaking, from scripting to structuring your production company, from catering to getting clearances, from PR to film processing.

He's been there, and he's showing your the way ... My bet would be that pretty much any page has on it a piece of advice could save your production the cost of the book.

It's a fair criticism that there's more of an emphasis on shooting film rather than DV, and that even from it's first publication date (2004) production methods have become far more "Prosumer" based - but this takes little away from an invaluable book.

cheers for the knowledge! (1/1 people found this helpful)

this book is absolutely amazing. it's so intensely indepth, it kinda feels like the rest of those how-to film making books were a complete waste of money.
this book really should be the main source of EVERYTHING you want to know.
I can't stress enough how helpful this book has...and will continue to be!
thankyou elliot grove!

An essential addition to a filmmaker's resources (1/1 people found this helpful)

Elliot Grove's exhaustive guide to the independent filmmaking process is not only informative but is also enormously entertaining. Packed full of useful industry tips for budding filmmakers (not only producers will benefit from this great book) and Elliot's wit that pervades the text to make it an absolute essential for anyone serious about making a film.

This book must go alongside 'The Guerilla Filmmaker's Handbook' as the most outstanding indie guide on the market and they both have pride of place on my shelf. In fact, I wouldn't consider ever making another film without these two for reference. Eliot guides you through the highs and lows of making a low-budget indie and how to prepare from development right through to post-production and marketing.

Perhaps the most pleasing touch is the confidence this book gives you while reading. Filmmaking can be inexorable and, at times, will leave you questioning your motivations and 'Producers' Lab' just knows the right tonics to pick you up again. Though never disingenuous about the tough nature of the film industry, the book eschews the negative aspects to give belief that making a film, especially these days, is more than achieveable.

If you are a budding filmmaker you need to buy this book. It really is as important as that.

An Indie Bible For The No-Budget Film Maker (1/1 people found this helpful)

Having bought hundreds of pounds worth of low budget film making books, which disappointed me. I was pleased to find a book like this, which went into far more depth than anything else I've ever read. The book has details on all different types of low budget film making, not just digital but it also covers 35mm.

Included is an excellent CD-ROM.

Overall, I just have to say if you're a low budget film maker I'd recommend getting this for research.

PME

best book on film production! (1/1 people found this helpful)

I spent ages looking up books for guidelines on legal stuff, the ins and outs, the basics for a production: this has it all and more. Clearly and concisely written by those in the industry Elliot's book has proved one of the best reads on the film/tv industry. It's so good loads of friends stole it off me and bought their own copy, only to say 'if only the lecturer had put this on the reading list'!

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