How To Make A Movie

A Complete and Practical Guide to Hollywood-quality Filmmaking Without the Hollywood Budget

What you'll learn

The knowledge required to develop and produce a motion picture from beginning to end.

Tips and advise necessary to complete the pre-production, production, and post-production of a movie and ensure the shoot proceeds like clockwork.

Step by step processes are studied in-depth.

Understanding the hierarchy, scope of work and responsibilities of each and every position within the production.

Requirements

No prior production knowledge is necessary as the course is defined to take you from novice to pro, including the most professional procedures used in modern production.

Description

Making a movie is an incredibly complex endeavour. These lectures cover the logistics of every aspect of filmmaking breaking down the process into understandable and easy-to-follow sections. Learn about every aspect and department within the production unit and how to best utilize and organize them to create the most inspiring and cost-effective production possible.The complete workshop contains 22 films with running times ranging from 5 to 31 minutes. Total running time is 5 hrs 7 mins.There are 6 sections to the syllabus :Introduction to filmmaking. 3 films : 24 minsDevelopment. 3 films : 37 minsPre-production. 6 films : 1 hr 34 minsProduction. 7 films : 1 hr 04 minsPost-production. 3 films : 49 minsBeyond the syllabus. 2 films : 33 minsThe workshop presents a practical formula for production. The steps within the formula will help you keep control of your budget resulting in a finished product that far exceeds expectations… both aesthetically and financially.The procedures documented in the lectures come from 30 years of hands-on experience mostly producing projects with "humble" budgets.Syllabus explains it all and how best to execute every aspect of movie production. Lectures are comprehensive but streamlined to help you get through with speed, but at the same time, deep insight into the subjects. You come out well-equipped and ready to take on the art of filmmaking with a much more practical and systematic view.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Filmmaking

Lecture 1 Introduction to How to make a movie

Lecture 2 Part 01 : Pre-development - How to budget a movie

Lecture 3 Part 02 : Pre-development - What are you shooting?

Section 2: Project Development

Lecture 4 Part 03 : Development - How to build a project Matrix

Lecture 5 Part 04 : Development - Building the Bible

Lecture 6 Part 05 : Development - Ticking off the template

Section 3: Pre-production

Lecture 7 Part 06 : Pre-production - Casting is 90% of directing

Lecture 8 Part 07 : Pre-production - The Shooting bible

Lecture 9 Part 08 : Pre-production - Rehearsals and Proviz

Lecture 10 Part 09 : Pre-production - Art direction and production design

Lecture 11 Part 10 : Pre-production - The Production Manager

Lecture 12 Part 11 : Pre-production - The Cinematographer

Lecture 13 Part 11a : Pre-production - The Naming Convention

Section 4: Production

Lecture 14 Part 12 : Production - The 5-Step Process

Lecture 15 Part 13 : Production - The modern-day storyboard

Lecture 16 Part 14 : Production - Blocks

Lecture 17 Part 15 : Production - The DOP and the crew

Lecture 18 Part 16 : Production - Where’s the spoon?

Lecture 19 Part 17 : Production - The DIT

Section 5: Post-production

Lecture 20 Part 18 : Post-production - All about post

Lecture 21 Part 19 : Post-production - Sound & vision

Lecture 22 Part 20 : Post-production - The best effects are the ones you can’t see

Section 6: Conclusion

Lecture 23 Conclusion

Lecture 24 Production Forms and Templates

Everyone interested in movie production or looking to start a career in the movie or TV production industry or people already in the industry looking to upgrade their skills or study procedures of all aspects of production. Only the passion for filmmaking is required.